Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says he could lose sight in one eye as a result of an exercise accident but is optimistic about a full recovery including running for re-election in 2016.

The 75-year-old Nevada Democrat said he sustained the injury and several others while exercising at home on New Year's Day. Reid, the Senate’s top Democrat, told an NPR affiliate in Las Vegas that he was injured when an exercise band snapped and "catapulted" him into cabinets but also touted his exercise regime that includes hundreds of pushups several days a week.

��I don'��t know how many people out there could sit down and do 250 sit-ups or do the strength exercise I did with those bands hundreds and hundreds of times --hundreds of times -- every week, three times a week, he told the station.

Reid sustained a concussion and broke four ribs and several bones around the severely injured right eye, which kept him from returning this week to Capitol Hill for the first days of the new, 114th congressional session.

Reid said he cannot see as long as blood remains accumulated in the eye, but his doctor are “hopeful” about a full recovery.

He said he was just finishing his regimen when the band broke and he was “catapulted … backwards and to one side. And I crashed into a series of cabinets.”

Though Reid said the thinks he’s "doing pretty good,” he acknowledged the recovery “is going to take a bit of time” and that he’ll miss the annual congressional Democratic retreat, scheduled for next week in Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, Sens. Chuck Schumer, N.Y., and Dick Durbin, Ill., are leading Democrats in the upper chamber.

To perhaps bolster confidence in Reid’s physical capacity to lead, a spokesman for the minority leader tweed his workout regimen: “To recap Sen. Reid's exercise routine: 250 SITUPS 3x/wk (750 total). Arm & chest: 420 reps w/exercise band 3x/wk. Walks 3 mi/day. Plus yoga.

“I’ve always been fairly confident in my ability to fight back,” said Reid, a former amateur boxer who in November was unseated as Senate majority leader. “I’ll continue to fight back. I’m in the process of setting up for the next go-around.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/10/reid-might-lose-eyesight-after-exercise-injury-but-touts-workout-routine-as/

Mwahahahahaha

laughing at someone else's misfortune ??? ...your karma awaits...

all those politicians that are over 60-70 should just retire... those old fools have no business doing anything rather than enjoying the money they stole from us...

Sad misfortune.

But, who let that senile old fool exercise without supervision?

dang, I thought this was going to be about Zimmerman,, but I suppose since he still walks the earth, the headline wouldn't be true of him,,,,

Ditto!!!

Dude, your response to a senior citizen being injured goes beyond the pale.

.....yet not at all surprising.

Karma sucks!!!!

will it be funny to me when one who laughs at another's pain is distracted by their own mentality and injures them self.

never.

for such be the only way to outwit karma it self.

to then take hold and charge of ALL of the reality of the self.

peace

With Reid's record, one has to wonder on anything he states as a truth..... even on something as simple as his exercise routine or campaign rhetoric

Even if he retired, his hand would still be in the taxpayers pocket to support him the rest of his natural life thanks to policies congress has passed as a body, on our behalf, in the form of congressional bennies (like retirement packages) while their constituents are forced to live under a "fixed", low yield, social security ponzi scheme style stipend, from a fund they robbed long ago, and threaten often

and they slammed Madoff in Jail for running the exact same Scheme!

yeppers...

this old world just ain't built fair.

we all can say WOW ...karma ... will prevail ...

but I do have different feelings ... what if it doesn't and have you heard about the book ...why do bad things happen ...to good people ...

why is that ...could they have had a bad afterlife and now good but bad things happen to them ... so many things can not be explained...

and don't believe all has to do with Karma ...
belts can wear out and crack ...

Schadenfreude ist die sch�nste Freude (denn sie kommt von Herzen).

Translation: "Schadenfreude is the most beautiful kind of joy (because it comes from the heart)."


(gloat over an enemy's misfortune)

With all the damage ole Slimy has done to America, while benefiting himself as the senate majority leader, it's hard to see him as being anything resembling "human" or care much when ills befall him.

..... seems Slimy is getting a little payback in the form of karma for all his abuses of power and privilege

F him. He is a nasty, mean, crooked senile old turd. He has ripped this state and the nation off for many years. He is nasty to people and his constitutes. He is a bitter old man.

He was supposed to attend my Eagle Scout Ceremony in the 90's but we told his office he was not welcome there, he then sent me a letter with a certificate and I sent it back to him.

He lives in a 7 figure apartment in the Ritz Carlton in Washington DC, that should explain it all.

Nope, if this were a thread about Zimmerman it would have been titled Hero should be given a medal for getting trash off the street!

At least he is gone in 2016. There are two major candidates in this state that are going to take him on, former Lt. Governor Brian Krolicki stated that he will run if Governor Brian Sandoval decides not to run. Both have some of the highest approval ratings out of any elected official in the State of Nevada and both will easily wipe the mat with Dirty Harry in a state that for the first time since World War 1 that it went overwhelmingly Red with every constitutional office being filled by Republicans, 3 of the four Congressional Seats went Republican and two were in Democrat strongholds, the state assembly, senate and supreme court all went Republican. Most major city offices went republican as well.