Why is Cheney nicknamed "Crashcart"? - Democratic Underground

Kid_A

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:19 PM
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Why is Cheney nicknamed "Crashcart"?

They've called him that numerous times in the Top 10 Conservative Idiots, and I've already wondered what it meant. Anybody know?

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Book Lover

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:20 PM
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1. Crashcart is a medical term

for (correct me if I'm wrong, nurses) the cart in a hospital with supplied for a patient who starts to go into cardiac arrest.

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Warpy

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:45 PM
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11. Right, the crash cart is a red toolchest on wheels

which is full of all the emergency drugs and equipment you'd need to resuscitate somebody who is trying to die ahead of time.

People call him Crashcart Cheney because he's highly likely to need it.

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Walt Starr

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:20 PM
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2. When a patient goes "Code Blue" in a hospital, they call for the crashcart

The Crashcart has the defibrillator and Cheney has a miniature defibrillator in his chest.

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Insider

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:21 PM
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3. code blue, stat! ...CLEAR

zap.

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SeattleDem

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:21 PM
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4. that's hilarious

a crashcart is used in emergencies to resuscitate people, like in an ER or in the hospital, when someone goes into cardiac arrest, they call for the crashcart, which contains lots of medications etc used in the effort to "save" the person.

I love the moniker!

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Edmond Dantes

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:24 PM
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8. Isn't there a "Do Not Resuscitate" order for Cheney? EOM

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librechik

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:35 PM
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9. technically, he is a walking "Resuscitate when necessary" order

that's why he's got a built in defib machine.

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Hand

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Tue Jun-15-04 03:07 PM
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16. Yeah... my brother observed once...

that Crashcart struck him as someone who'd have his body frozen in liquid nitrogen in the hopes of living forever.

Chilling thought--and deadly accurate, I think.

:nuke:

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OpSomBlood

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:21 PM
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5. Because he has a heart attack every three minutes.

The "crash cart" is the rolling defibrillator machine at the hospital.

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hlthe2b

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:21 PM
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6. Ummm, he's one dysfunctional pacemaker and a crashcart

away from seeing his God? Given his limited remaining cardiac function, he has to be followed around by a personal physcian armed with portable defib and all the routine emergency equipment required for full CPR.

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Unperson 309

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Tue Jun-15-04 08:28 PM
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18. Imagine following him around with a portable microwave oven..... (EG!)

Heeheeheeheeheeheehee!

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hlthe2b

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Tue Jun-15-04 08:39 PM
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20. ahhh... such fantasy...

But, I'm sort of leaning towards those who think it may take the stake through the (already dead) heart....

(Simply a metaphor, John Assskkkkroft and any monitoring agents...simply metaphor)

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Ripley

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:22 PM
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7. Aren't you the guy who posted a Bombing in Indy thread?

What happened with your co-worker? Why did he say that?

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Kid_A

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:42 PM
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10. Yeah, That turned out to be bullshit.

A girl I work with was talking to a friend on the phone, and apparently the local Indy stations interrupted programming to report a bombing in a mall, with 24 people injured. It turned out to be a drill at the mall, that the news channel picked up as a real story. Somebody gonna get fired over that one. (At the TV station, not the place where I work.)

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Book Lover

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:47 PM
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12. Well, at least it didn't happen (nm)

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Ripley

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:49 PM
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13. Yeah, I see there's a thread in LBN about the drill.

Why do they need to have Terror drills at the mall several times a year? Americans are becoming hysterical nittwits.

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Kid_A

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:52 PM
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14. Because a frightened populace is easier to keep in line.

Expect more of these. What really pisses me off is how the news stations in town just picked it up and ran with it, without doing any research WHATSOEVER.

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Ripley

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Tue Jun-15-04 02:55 PM
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15. Man, that's really pathetic. I wouldn't rely on them for my news.

But you know what? I think once again the Promoters of Fear are going to have a backfire. They can cry wolf only so many times before Americans get pissed.

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Eurobabe

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Tue Jun-15-04 03:08 PM
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17. LOL!!!! I love it, thanks for sharing

Edited on Tue Jun-15-04 03:09 PM by crozet4clark

I got it right away! great visual.

edit: please stop, I am peeing myself already over this thread!!

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ShaneGR

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Tue Jun-15-04 08:33 PM
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19. Did you know what his secret service codename is?

Not sure if it's the same, but when he was Secretary of Defense under Bush 41 his codename was "Backseat"

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