Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies

[Perdogg]

USA Today link only

[Nowhere Man]

Well, IIRC, the line of sucession is the Vice President, then the Speaker of the House and then President Pro-Tem of the Senate. The President Pro-Tem of the Senate is usually the most senior member of the majority party. Since Inouye passed away, he's been in the Senate since 1963 (longer than I've been alive, I was born in 1966) so he got the nod. After him is Senator Patrick Leahy, he's been in office since 1975.

BTW, how's the job hunt? I did score a new job, just need the paperwork for my background check to go through, which is no problem for my IMHO. All I can say is it will kick me way into a higher tax bracket, thanks to the sheeple that voted for Bronco Bama. Still it is nice early Christmas present and I'm happy.

[napscoordinator]

Prayers. God Bless his family.

[Verginius Rufus]

Inouye was a member of the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973.

When the Nixon people learned the makeup of the committee, one of them said of Inouye something like "there ain't no way" he would be anything but trouble for them.

At one point in the hearings he didn't like what one of the witnesses was saying and muttered under his breath, "What a liar!" When he was accused of saying that, he denied it...but it had been caught on tape, so then he said that he must have been referring to himself.

How many of the Watergate committee members are still alive? I believe Howard Baker is.

[Lizavetta]

Senator Tim Johnson is still in the Senate despite a stroke. He is such a joke. Can barely speak and yet runs hearings. Out of duty to his nation, he should have stepped down. But, no. Vanity rules.

Hank Johnson from Georgia HASN'T had a stroke and he's twice as unfit as Tim Johnson. It is painful to listen to someone sound so feeble.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

There was book I read about MOH recipients, with detailed stories of their actions which won them the MOH. The Wikipedia article is accurate.

RIP, Sen. Inouye, and thank you not only for your service to the USA, but for your sheer courage under fire.

Godspeed.

[loboinok]

What blew his arm off?

[Indy Pendance]

He was lucky.

[AnAmericanAbroad]

This is how Senator Daniel Inouye won the Medal of Honor: On April 21, 1945, Inouye was grievously wounded while leading an assault on a heavily-defended ridge near San Terenzo in Tuscany, Italy called Colle Musatello. The ridge served as a strongpoint along the strip of German fortifications known as the Gothic Line, which represented the last and most dogged line of German defensive works in Italy. As he led his platoon in a flanking maneuver, three German machine guns opened fire from covered positions just 40 yards away, pinning his men to the ground. Inouye stood up to attack and was shot in the stomach; ignoring his wound, he proceeded to attack and destroy the first machine gun nest with hand grenades and fire from his Thompson submachine gun. After being informed of the severity of his wound by his platoon sergeant, he refused treatment and rallied his men for an attack on the second machine gun position, which he also successfully destroyed before collapsing from blood loss. As his squad distracted the third machine gunner, Inouye crawled toward the final bunker, eventually drawing within 10 yards. As he raised himself up and cocked his arm to throw his last grenade into the fighting position, a German inside fired a rifle grenade that struck him on the right elbow, severing most of his arm and leaving his own primed grenade reflexively "clenched in a fist that suddenly didn't belong to me anymore". Inouye's horrified soldiers moved to his aid, but he shouted for them to keep back out of fear his severed fist would involuntarily relax and drop the grenade. As the German inside the bunker reloaded his rifle, Inouye pried the live grenade from his useless right hand and transferred it to his left. As the German aimed his rifle to finish him off, Inouye tossed the grenade off-hand into the bunker and destroyed it. He stumbled to his feet and continued forward, silencing the last German resistance with a one-handed burst from his Thompson before being wounded in the leg and tumbling unconscious to the bottom of the ridge. When he awoke to see the concerned men of his platoon hovering over him, his only comment before being carried away was to gruffly order them to return to their positions, since, as he pointed out, "nobody called off the war!" The remainder of Inouye's mutilated right arm was later amputated at a field hospital without proper anesthesia, as he had been given too much morphine at an aid station and it was feared any more would lower his blood pressure enough to kill him.

[drew]

A rifle grenade. He grabbed the grenade he was going to throw from his severed arm and took out the German who blew his arm off while the guy was reloading. That is one tough SOB!

[Indy Pendance]

Please God, help us.

[loboinok]

Thanks. I read it in post #41 and just above this one.

[Theodore R.]

One does not have to reside in HI to be a U.S. senator from there. Anyone will do! The framer left quite a few things too broadly worded. Too bad Hamilton didn’t take the time to define “natural born citizen.”

[muawiyah]

Leahy’s first vote in the Senate was to murder 5 million Cambodians. Obamugabe, Biden and Boehner best watch out with that ol’boy in the line to take over Present.

[smalltownslick]

I don’t have any idea how to respond to that!!! Thank you, hilarious.

[doorgunner69]

I stand corrected. Carpet baggers indeed........

[rfp1234]

Laws and rules never apply to Demorats anyway (Rahmbo got away with
it even though his IL residency was questionable).

[willowdean]

Well, any way.

[ConorMacNessa]

Rest in Peace, Capt. Daniel Inouye, U.S. Army. The Nation is forever indebted to you for your valiant service!



Keep Faith with the Fallen of Benghazi! Let the Obama Regime, for once, tell the Truth!

Fiat Justitia, Ruat Coelum!

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

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[dead]

When is Lousyberg going to drop dead?

He died about six years ago. They just shove new batteries up his butt every few weeks so he can blink his eyes to vote.

[Newtoidaho]

Guess his lifetime gravy train ride is finally over.