Huff Post: Cheney Checks Into Vail Hospital...

Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to the cardiac unit of the Vail Valley Medical Center. Contrary to Associated Press reports that he went to see orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Steadman, for a knee injury, Vice President Cheney went directly to the cardiac unit to see Dr. Jack Eck and his team. The Vice President checked into the hospital under the name of Dr. Hoffman.

Posted June 24, 2005 10:06 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/06/cheney-checks-into-vail-h.html

Here is the AP article:

Cheney Visits Orthopedist in Colorado

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: June 24, 2005
Filed at 9:21 p.m. ET

VAIL, Colo. (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney visited a renowned orthopedist Friday while in town for a forum held by a conservative think tank, his spokeswoman said.

Cheney met with Dr. Richard Steadman to evaluate an old football injury to his knee, Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said.

Steadman focuses primarily on sports medicine, and his Steadman Hawkins Clinic has treated a number of famous athletes. In 2003, Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant was in Vail for knee surgery at the clinic when he was accused of raping a hotel worker.

Cheney was scheduled to attend the American Enterprise Institute World Forum, which was started in 1982 by former President Gerald Ford.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Cheney-Doctor-Visit.html

edit to also add Arianna's earlier post on this:

Is Cheney Alright?
I just landed at Vail airport, right next to the Vice President’s Gulfstream jet (actually, there were two Vice Presidential planes, not one... how much of an entourage does one VP need?). He’s here to speak at the World Forum at Beaver Creek, sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute, and held, of course, behind closed doors. The guy sent to pick me up by the Vail Valley Institute (where I’m speaking) told me that he had seen the VP’s motorcade speed towards the local hospital. Being an intrepid HuffPost reporter, I asked him to take me straight there. Upon our arrival, we encountered a high level of security -- and a lot of zipped lips: “We cannot tell you anything,” “No comment,” “That information is not available...” But one hospital staffer, obviously not schooled in the secretive ways of Cheney, let it slip: “He’s no longer here”. And since you cannot “no longer” be someplace you’ve never been, we can deduce -- though not confirm -- that Cheney did, in fact, pay a visit to the local hospital. The reason? Over to you AP...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/

if I say what I hope for, I'll get deleted and tombstoned.

On Edit: Wasn't the guy who invented LSD named Dr. Hoffman?

... ;-)

apparent"

not good.

in this case I'm pulling for Chaney's blood pumping muscle (we all know the man doesn't have a heart) to keep right on beating

Isn't there still a nepotism law on the books that prevents that? The Republicans put it in because of Bobby Kennedy.

gawd only knows what neocon crackpot they'll put up.

But Jeb never entered my mind

Laws are not for republicans...only pesky democrats..

amendment that requires siblings and heirs of sitting Presidents to wait at least 20 years before they can run for President.

That will prevent families like the * from using Father's appointees to help idiot sons to steal the Presidency and will make damn sure that the U.S. is NOT an inherited monarchy.

Prescott Bush

and enter the BFEE replacement for *dimson. The replacement will be the nominee, pick Jebthro as his running mate, and then resign for health reasons of his own as soon as the date passes where Jebtrho can serve out that term -plus two of his own....

I am starting to think too much like them.

you'll give me nightmares! :scared:

Hastert. He's icky too but they don't get to pick just anybody unless they really want to expose that this is a dictatorship. There are rules of succession.

The interesting thing to me is that Cheney is actually the President. No matter how much we revile the Idiot Son, he is merely a figurehead. Cheney has been running things behind the scenes since the beginning. If he's gone, it will take this WH a bit of time to find another to actually run things because Hastert isn't likely to be as in on what's been happening and able to run such a neferious operation without a break in period.

Section. 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

I found that out. Man, that sucks.

Does Cheney have a well-developed sense of irony?

He must have an artificially implanted one.

How prophetic.

My thoughts are my own thankfully.

He's a human being... He's a human being...

I'll never get this double espresso out of my sinuses now.

I didn't get it. Yeah, from a plumbing point of view, he is all too human.

provide a link to back that up? ;)

Keep repeating this and you might convince yourself.

No, he's not....No, he's not.

There is nothing even remotely human about him.

a MAN, Baby!

A TOOL OF THE DEVIL



LOOK AT THAT FACE --- EVIL---

Where do you guys find them. Thank you I needed the laugh tonight:D

Darth Vader

fantasies are fun

...I did not know Dick Cheney was Jewish.

nt

probably a part of the PLS in case they have to hide the fools from public revolution or something.

he's obviousLy faking it to garner sympathy.

a resignation for health reasons? Any new VP will have a leg up in the repub primary.

i remember those Long ago predictions. :?

McCain anyone? Lieberman? OK, someone more in keeping, like Zell Miller!

Does anyone have the link(s) to the predictions posted last year or early this year?

Thanks

Paula

Did he eat the Gitmo food? :evilgrin:

and I like it!

:hi:

RL

:( I miss Alec.

Yes, I sin, just like everyone else. That's what makes me so charming. :loveya:

I'm way too tired for sin, so I just think about it...

RL

:P :hi:

:hi:

I get tired just waving...

RL

he's never had it so good!

...to stake him. They'll bring him a few premies from the maternity ward to feed on and he'll be right as rain. On the other hand, maybe the villagers will have something to celebrate soon. I suppose it's too early to declare the Cheney death watch officially open....

...to stake him."


:rofl:

like the old Soviet Union he will only have a cold.

I hope you are feeling better.:grouphug:

I couldn't resist.:evilgrin:

Please pick up the white courtesy phone in orthopedics.


:P

What a sense of irony. I'll bet Abby's rolling over in his grave.

Hahahaha...... (NOT)

:think:

I want him healthy and long-lived for the eventual war crimes tribunal. Death is too good for that shitbag.

and corruption charges that he should be held accounted for.

and tell Dubya to get his shit screwed on tight, or pay the price.

What ever happened to office visits?
Way to go AP!

it's just a cover for something else. Why would the AP start inquiring into the medical records now? Have we had One medical report on Cheney or Bush since they've been re-appointed?? We've had more updates on Clinton's medical well being than the people who are currently in te White House.

frist Look over a video tape of him?

:wow:

:hi:

my first time seeing you here.

:scared:

i'm usuaLLy on top of everything, being the nosey shit that i am.

:cry:

Dr. Frist reporting for duty sir, would you like it in the butt or.....

nice one :)

:spray: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Hekate

just made me LMAO. Calling Dr. Frist! :rofl:

Maybe, this deal with China is getting to him. It would have to be about money and power, nothing else would bother him.

I thank myself for my "no drinking coffee or any other fluids while reading DU" rule.

That's hilarious.

Cheney see a real Doctor. Hope nothing happens to him or we'll have a state funderal lasting until December 06.

Was he greeted with flowers thrown in his path?

That photo posted yesterday... http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3933426
...maybe it wasn't gas.

Didn't we hear this not too long ago on another blog and it turned out not to be true after staying up half the night waiting on updates?
wishful thinking,that's probably all it is. ;)

crisis best wishes to get through the crisis. But Cheney - how hard - he lies to us regularly - and with some bizzarre arrogance that reeks of contempt for the American Public (as in - I will state as truth things that everyone knows - and can be easily proven - are false.) He has not acted in good faith towards the American Public.

Yet still I can not wish him ill. It is against my nature and my belief system to do so. So I wish him and his family well. But if he feels it would be better for his health to resign... well I would completely understand that decision.

Though my well-wishes are just a wee bit less certain than yours. But alas, you are right.

Cheney long ago forfeited any right to compassion from me. America would be better off with him gone by whatever means, the sooner the better.

Ugh.... Damn those doctors, they should be held for treason....

is that he doesn't use it enough. How can anyone deny his kid the right to marry is beyond me. Unless this is what happenes when you lie at meeting John Edwards at a prayer breakfeast.

that will tell if he's still pulling the strings there.

Whenever he kicks it, whatever happens to that stock will be very telling.

achieved "favored contractor" status, Cheney's work is done.

...concerning Cheney and the Halliburton contract to build Gitmo?

Perhaps old Dick is going to retire for "health reasons" in order to keep from having to retire in shame like Agnew.

What to do, what to do.

Chenney embryo, embryo chenney? Ah the heck with it. :D

Maybe nurse could insert a tube somewhere into cheney? After returning from the coffee break.

Give Chenney his bible problem solved.

and I would refuse the assignment. We are within our rights to do that, though once we've taken the patient, we are ethically bound to see it through.

Why would I refuse? Because I'm a good person and I just don't know if I would have the fortitude to avoid pushing a large amount of potassium through his IV. A temptation that great would be best avoided.

I mean, it's not like you can't get it, but would it work with the defibrillator? I mean, that sucker would just keep shocking him and shocking him over and over . . . Hmmmm . . . yeah, that's too great a temptation.

Too bad, millions of these same tax payers footing the bill for the VP are without the same health insurance coverage for themselves. Gee, I wonder why.

Shame on you, Dick Cheney, and your Bu$hco gang of liars and thieves!

Fuck him. He is a larcenous pig.

He hides out all the time...recently I heard of the US and Russian research groups who use remote viewing as a means to pull swtiches, push buttons and stop 'pace makers'. Evidently, these very talented people can stop a pace maker from anywhere on the planet.

.

I actually asked my TV "Gee I wonder what kind Cheney has?"

Do you suppose that could be why he's there?

With robots and aliens, you can't be sure of these things.

I mean Dickless was running the show, right?

It seemed that way to me both during the 9/11 attacks, and when the little plane was in D.C. and DUH was on a trike ride in MD.

Bu$h would appoint the next VP and Congress would have to approve the nomination.

I thought line of succession would still be in place.

But if Cheney were to leave office for any reason, Bush would get to appoint a VP, with approval of Senate, just as Nixon did when Agnew was forced to resign.

a few notches now that, hopefully, the cheeney problem is dealt with!

I didn't realize that! Ugh!

I pick Ashcroft. Who do you think * will nominate?

seem to see behind the curtain. I don't think he's doing it by himself, but the new tricky Dick has been running the show from day one.

I'm amazed that anyone would actually entertain the thought that * really runs anything. I mean, come on, * can barely tie his shoes without help.

Another lie - even about something like this. He probably lies to himself about what he had for breakfast, and then believes it.

He make it sound like "Club Med"

"...In an interview with CNN, however, Mr Cheney insisted: "They got a brand new facility down at Guantánamo. We spent a lot of money to build it. They're very well treated there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibility want." He added: "There isn't any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we're treating these people..."

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/guantanamo/story/0,13743,1514413,00.html?gusrc=rss>

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=1579891&mesg_id=1579891>

So, as a Christian, fighting evil (as in the Admin), I hope that God does His will with Chaney. I am really hoping His Will and my hopes are compatible.

Having fun DOCTOR HOFFMAN (or should I call you Dr. Snarl or just plain old DOCTOR CHAINSAW?). :D

:kick:

I sometimes wonder if the Hartmans were "taken care of" simply because Phil could have done such a good impression of GFY Cheney.

Cover up the right side of the picture. He appears fairly normal. Then cover up the left side, showing only the right. HE LOOKS LIKE EVIL INCARNATE!!

that the Cheney insurgency is "in its last throes?"

it wasn't an old war injury.

He'll resign citing health reasons.

Why isn't Dick being investigated for this?

And I hope when he's dead his heirs invest their inheritance in the stock market and it crashes.

Calling Dr Howard, Dr. Fine. Dr. Howard
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There are more than "a few" DUer's old enough to "get" that..

I would Lo-o-ove to have those Docs show up to treat this particular patient!
Welcome to DU :toast:

Oh sheet yer right. Now I'm really worried.

May he and his family rot in HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dick you are a DICK! Football injury? Right.....

The devil let him out to play this week so he could go on that tirade against Dr. Dean and people demanding a withdrawal.

being their aren't any "guts" to feed. 'Tis the bionic man/woman, oh don't ya know it!

:kick:

was keeping him under cell phone observation and, being somewhat similarly afflicted, he certainly deserved no worse than the late, lamented Ms. Schiavo. Of course, as our lead spearman, Howlin' Howie has aptly puts it, the "Culture of Corruption" would be feeding hundred dollar bills into the tube instead of food and water.

UPDATE: Cheney’s Health: What is the White House Hiding?

VAIL -- Why is the White House still insisting that the only health issue Vice President Cheney dealt with today is an old football injury to his knee, visiting renowned orthopedist Dr. Richard Steadman? At the Vail Valley Institute dinner tonight, I kept asking what those in the know here knew. Little by little, here is the story I pieced together: After the Secret Service secured the Vail Valley Medical Center, including the parking lot, the Vice President arrived under his own power and checked in at the orthopedic center under the name “Dr. Hoffman”. He was immediately whisked to the adjacent cardiac unit, suffering from what was described to me as “an angina attack”. The security was so high that a Secret Service agent wouldn’t let an ER nurse out of the bathroom that she had gone into just before the Veep arrived. “Get back in there,” the agent told her. Confounded, she called her husband on her cell phone, telling him “something big” was going on. And indeed it was… but you wouldn’t know it from the White House. It appears that not only doesn’t the public deserve to know what is really going on in Iraq (“last throes”?) we don’t deserve to know what is going on with our Vice President’s health.

They don't know HOW to tell the truth. That is what makes them pathological liars...lying when it doesn't even matter.

this story in any other news source?

PS. I never let anyone force me to stay in a restroom for any reason. They have NO authority to do that.

...it's a real, multiple-source story you have to think about to get.

Until it gets announced by the Secret Service, say, MSM is nervous about reporting anything. Get accused of rumor-mongering, spreading panic, aiding the enemy, etc. etc. etc. :eyes:

The ego/rage/defensive syndrome is followed swiftly by heart trouble. That is why Cheney was so focused on being restrained din his Edwards debate which in essence was a minimal effort/ don't worry everything else is rigged.

But on a real unexpected rant filled with lies and spite you know he is spinning toward an "episode".

Call me despicable, but a real opposition with any real conviction about the evils at stake would have kept up such pressure on the Grand Architect until the pipes burst. Now we heading into a war with Iran, possible economic disaster, rambunctious presidential hopefuls and impeachment evidence.

He always had a respite, the fix and absolute secrecy working for him with Democratic weakness and deference. Horrible damage has been done. Now maybe Cheney is not up to the emotional demands of the assault of implacable truth.

n/t

Compassionate conservatism?

And I was soooo looking forward to updating the Cheney Ticker on my website.

Actually, a source told me Cheney had a heart attack in Co. just before the last election. She worked in the hospital and they had to sign forms of silence. I could never get enough info so I couldn't break the story.

What the heck? I live in Colorado, and find it quite peaceful. My BP only rises when I have to travel to DC!

ak kaa kaa, yes master.

many heart attacks can one vampire have?

:eyes:

Did ya see the two of 'em at the ball game yesterday? :puke:

And with Laura out rafting the Colorado River?

Jeb, anyone but a non-Bushista contender or maybe Guiliani so they can further work on destroying him.

The appointment nightmare at the same time as Chief Justice would be an awesome ugliness born.

from what I can see. He's only allowed to play with toys, clear brush and ride his bike these days.

Pump pump
Pump pump
Pump pump pump pump pump pump
pump pump
pump pump
pump pump pump pump pump pump
pump pump
pump pump
pump pump pump pumps your blood...

now just say that you weren't thinkin' it!!???:)

And saw a laser beam pointed right at him….:shrug:

Why not just plain old "Mister"? Who was the most famous Dr. Hoffmann in history? And what's he famous for?

Jeff Wells on Dick Cheney's Acid House:

http://rigorousintuition.blogspot.com/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=3944748


;-)

Knee Attack!
:rofl:

Pakistan leader: Bin Laden location unknown - Hunt for Al-Qaida - MSNBC.com

"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan’s president said Saturday there were no authentic reports on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, and anyone who believed the al-Qaida chief was in his country should give his location."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8356339/

Oh,I'm sorry wrong thread.Where'd that euthanasia thread go?

That he consulted an orthopedic surgeon about his knee, and apparently during the exam the surgeon found something indicating an immediate heart problem (irregular heart beat, etc), and sent him to the hospital.

This isn't that unusual if that's what happened.

Anything but the truth with this gang of criminals, you know.

Nazi Dr. Frist will be able to manage the full-blown police state (including the quarantines) when Bush's bird flu pandemic comes home to roost.

Lori Price

Second question...

Does Hastert enter the picture if something happens to both Bush and Cheney? If yes, you all know what you're getting with Hastert, don't you? Tom DeLay. DeLay tells Hastert what's what. So it seems.

Geeez-- this bunch is always so SECRETIVE!!!

NOW what are they hiding? Or is it just that they're so
used to obfuscating the truth that it's second nature??

I don't get it

:shrug:

Another prime example of how bushco operates-- keep the
people in the dark.

He's polluted this earth for far too long.

I wish him and his entire family god spead - straight to HIS vision of hell!

Dick Cheney has had a history of heart problems. He's had I believe 4 heart attacks. About 3 years ago, he had quadruple bypass surgery; for a severe case of blocked arteries.

After the surgery, the doctors found out that Lynne Cheney was feeding her husband a lot of "junk food" like greasy hamburgers, meat with lots of fat, and super high cholesterol foods. So his diet was the culprit. They tried to change his eating habits, but he's resisted. He had a pacemaker installed a few years ago.


In the meantime, Cheney still has a large hole in his aorta which has not healed. The doctors have warned Dick that he should not do anything extreme or exhausting which could rupture his artery. I'm sure doctors watch this man 24/7, to make sure nothing happens to him.

Cheney goes in and out of the hospital on a regular basis. He just went in about 6 months ago in Washington; somebody reported it on another news group.

The barracudas in Washington have wanted to get rid of him, because of his fragile health. But the old buzzard has hung on, insisting that he can do the job. He's been an acknowledged "workaholic" for a long time now.

I wonder how long he'll last. Let's take some bets.

And don't forget the bacon and double cheese. Some poutaine to go with it, and a nice thick milk shake would help.

Is that why she was feeding him all those burger kings?

Republican family values don't preclude murder, after all.

self delete - posted ancient related article

Bush & Cheney
one needs a brain
the other needs a heart

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Yis'ga'dal v'yis'kadash sh'may ra'bbo, b'olmo dee'vro chir'usay v'yamlich malchu'say, b'chayaychon uv'yomay'chon uv'chayay d'chol bais Yisroel, ba'agolo u'viz'man koriv; v'imru Omein.
Y'hay shmay rabbo m'vorach l'olam ul'olmay olmayo.
Yisborach v'yishtabach v'yispoar v'yisromam v'yismasay, v'yishador v'yis'aleh v'yisalal, shmay d'kudsho, brich hu, l'aylo min kl birchoso v'sheeroso, tush'bechoso v'nechemoso, da,ameeran b'olmo; vimru Omein.
Y'hay shlomo rabbo min sh'mayo, v'chayim alaynu v'al kol Yisroel; v'imru Omein.
Oseh sholom bimromov, hu ya'aseh sholom olaynu, v'al kol yisroel; vimru Omein.

Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr.Howard.

gun shots heard----

voice from the loud speaker,

"Oh they got me"!!!

For duty and humanity.!!!!!!!!!

The Three Stooges, short, "Men in Black", was the only Three Stooges short that was nominated for an academy award. They did not get the Oscar, but OMG is that a funny episode.
I can almost picture Cheney getting up after the surgery and hearing all the clashing of the missing surgical instruments that the Stooges left in their subject's body (well I can dream it might be Cheney can't I,,,?)

Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine , Dr Howard
Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine , Dr Howard
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it is my favorite. I'm laughing just thinking about it. :rofl:

:rofl:

http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001925.html

........ President George Bush told an alarmed White House press corps "constitutionally gentlemen, as of now, I am in charge here."

The announcement quelled rumors that President Reagan's former Secretary of State Alexander Haig had stepped in during Mr. Cheney's absence.

Mr. Bush said his time spent with Mr. Cheney during the past four years has prepared him to lead "if, heaven forbid, it should ever come to that."

While the vice president has a history of heart trouble, spokesman Mary Matalin said tests showed that "this time it's only an ordinary cold, not the kind of cold that Soviet leaders used to get."

:)

Eventually they will get around to mentioning it. Probably in one of those "on the lighter side of the news" moments (after ten straight shark attack stories).

Sympathy ploy.

Call me a cynical bastard, but that's what I see it as. We have to rally around poor Uncle Dick now because that's what Americans do.:sarcasm:

I have bad knees too! :eyes: