The second public incident where the Senate minority leader has appeared to freeze up in public is something he needs to address more fully.
Dr. Joe Verghese, director of the division of cognitive and motor aging in the neurology department atin New York City, agreed that there could still be a wide variety of possible causes for the sudden stoppages we’ve twice seen from McConnell. “Some of them are very benign. If you are not sleeping well, for instance, you know, that can affect your attention,” he told me in a phone call Wednesday afternoon.
That doesn’t mean there’s no reason to be concerned, especially because Wednesday wasn’t the first time McConnell has frozen. “It suggests that maybe there’s a chronic issue as opposed to just, like, a one-time issue,” Dr. Uche Blackstock, who heads the group , told me in a phone call Wednesday afternoon. She also stressed that we’ve seen it happen twice to McConnell inMcConnell isn’t the only senator fielding questions about his capacity to perform the job. Unlike Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who at 90 is the oldest senator, there has been no reporting that his
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