U.S. VP Cheney to have routine heart checkup

[maddezmom]

Source: Reuters

WASHINGTON, June 7 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, a survivor of four heart attacks including a mild one shortly after the 2000 election, will have a routine heart checkup on Friday, his office said on Thursday.

"The vice president will visit his doctors at the George Washington University Medical Faculty Associates tomorrow morning for a scheduled routine cardiology check-up," said his deputy press secretary Megan McGinn.

Cheney, 66, and one of President George W. Bush's closest advisers, had a defibrillator implanted in his chest in 2001 to help regulate his heartbeat.

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[UndertheOcean]

1. Meanwhile , tens of thousands of uninsured Americans die due to lacking the money for regular

checkups.

Disgusting

[ladym55]

2. How can one have a checkup for something one does not have?

Just askin'. :shrug:

[dkofos]

24. Good question. I don't have the answer either.

[Sal Minella]

3. They stage this periodically to keep us under the delusion he has one. eom

[Straight Shooter]

4. It's a shriveled-up little pea-sized clump of cells, why bother. n/t

[Frustratedlady]

5. Good grief! With the medical center following him around, you'd think

they had enough information he wouldn't need a formal physical. He should donate his appointment to someone who doesn't have insurance and who is worth saving. JMVHO

[buff2]

6. Gee........I wish him well...

:sarcasm:

[emilyg]

23. I do NOT

[whistle]

7. Can the doctors verify that Dick Cheney really does have a heart?

...He may have a mechanical pump of some kind, but I'm doubtful that the man has anything resembling a human heart.

[olddad56]

10. no more than Bush has a brain. It is like the Wizard of OZ.

[whistle]

13. That's what I thought, impeach the bastards!

[davhill]

26. And For the Cowardly Lion

The Democratic Congress, of course.

[The Wielding Truth]

8. Probably getting an injection of new genetic mouse cells.

to keep him alive to (advise?) next corporate head of US.

[Xipe Totec]

9. Meanwhile, the proctology report is in

Cheney is still a perfect asshole.

[maddezmom]

11. LOL

:applause:

[POAS]

12. Is ehis the biginning of

the speculated move of Cheney out as V.P. so that ______________ (fill in the blank) can run in 2008 for President as the sitting V.P.?

[Auggie]

22. I'm expecting it... one of these days.

[krispos42]

14. "Yup, still missing, Mr. Vice President"

Cheney responds...

[Peregrine Took]

15. How much have we spent on his health care since 2000 and what have we

gotten for it? I heard a cardiologist goes everywhere with him.

[Stephanie]

21. The rumor is that he's got an operating room in the basement of the mansion.

That's what all the blasting was about a few years ago - private operating room. Or so I heard.

[Journeyman]

16. Why do I have this image of Geraldo in Al Capone's vault stuck in my head? . . .

or alternately, images of George Bush searching for WMD in the Oval Office. . .

"Hmm. . . nothing here . . . let's look over there, under that piece of carpet. . . "

[nc_gadfly]

17. dick vader is more machine than man now...

...twisted and evil

[momster]

18. Dead Man's Chest

Is this the inspiration for the latest POTC movie? Where's Cap'n Jack Sparrow when you need him?

[goofticket]

19. Bring in the iPods

I hope the staff gets to bring the iPods into the OR.

Many cardiologists use iPods to study heartbeats, as they can play them over and over and listen for anomilies.

[Stephanie]

20. What's the deal? They NEVER announce this stuff.

The only time they've announced a med appt for him was during the exact hour that Kucinich was due to announce his move to impeach him. So there's got to be more to this.

[Massachusetts]

25. Who cares!

Do us all a favor dick and drop dead.

[EnviroBat]

27. Maybe they can give him a trans-orbital lobotomy while they're at it. n/t

[Mend]

31. good idea...it did wonders for Larva...she never stops smiling and her Xanax

dose has been cut in half.

[quiet.american]

28. So what? n/t

[Eurobabe]

29. Chuck Feney!!

[FrankieBud]

30. If as in most of us that we died after the first one,

what an amazing change in history.

[CreekDog]

32. I guess they're still looking for one...

[MasonJar]

33. They won't find one. n/t

[HannibalBarca]

34. If he attempted to lose

some of the unsightly paunch he carries around with him his heart might have an easier time. Lay off the whoppers VP Dick.

[Hand]

36. Beg to differ.

Have a big thick richly marbled steak, Dick! And a big fat cigar after! With lots of straight 100 proof whisky! :evilgrin:

[DemoTex]

37. It ain't just the "Whoppers," HannibalBarca. It's 60 years of soft, slothful, hedonism.

It is prime rib and eggs for breakfast, Oysters Bienville and fried shrimp for lunch, and thick 22-oz cowboy rib-eyes dripping with butter sauces or mounds of pulled-pork barbecue for supper. All washed down with gallons of hard likker and tanker-loads of wine.

Cheney is a picture of ill health; a clinical study in bad lifestyle choices. He is crapulent, costive (always looks like an enema would help), and sessile.

Overlay that with his type A+++ personality, and any bookie in London wouldn't give you squat odds on him seeing another turkey feast in November. He is a dead man walking.

But that has nothing to do with why he will soon resign for "health" reasons .. or why Bu$h will summarily pardon him.

[Amonester]

35. Ummm... What if....

How many posts would we see telling DUers they should "respect" THAT treasonous war criminal's remains "now that he's ...." uh?

(None?) :shrug:

:sarcasm: :evilgrin:

[JoFerret]

38. Please: Can we all stop pretending he has one

.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

39. Why? Do they think he suddenly grew one?

[chknltl]

40. Whose heart is he having checked up on?

Some folks just collect stamps.
:popcorn:

[gratuitous]

41. Does Cheney actually have to go in?

Or does he just have that teeny clump of cells messengered over while he quaffs unicorn blood?