Who's next?

Well, Robert Byrd is in ill health. Barb Mikulski is being rumored as a retirement. And now Lautenberg is hospitalized. Read about it over at Don Surber:

On Monday, I pooh-poohed the rumor on Democratic Senator Barbara Mikulski calling it quits when her term ends in January. But given her age and still middlingt ranking high in seniority, she may go.

But I overlooked another story that a reader tipped me to today: Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg fell and wound up hospitalized with a bleeding ulcer. He’s 86.