Compassionate Congressmen?

John Burtis doesn't think so, when the fate of the Senate hangs on the condition of Democrat Senator Tim Johnson’s health:

Imagine a box, or the US Senate for that matter. Inside the box is a cat, or a senator. At some completely random interval of time, a tragedy will befall the cat or the senator while they are both out of sight inside the box. And, until the box is opened by the observers, the cat and the senator are both alive and dead at the same time.
So it is with both teams of observers – the Republicans and the Democrats.
The Republicans, needing another party member to give a tie to Dick Cheney to break, see Senator Johnson as dead.
While Harry Reid, who claims to have spent that first night in the hospital with Senator Johnson guarding him against the predations of the other team of observers who might enter and find him dead, believes that poor benighted man is alive, whether he is or not.

Our prayers and well wishes go out to the Senator and his family.