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Cheney to be Evaluated for Irregular Heart Beat

By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 03:25:21 PM EST
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Vice President Dick Cheney will enter the hospital Monday to get evaluated for an irregular heart beat. He's expected to return home Monday night.

Cheney visited his doctors because of a lingering cough from a cold and during the examination he was found to have an irregular heartbeat, which on further testing was determined to be "atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart," said Megan Mitchell, spokeswoman for Cheney.

....Cheney will undergo further evaluation on Monday and if required he will have an electric impulse to the heart delivered, which is standard treatment for this diagnosis, Mitchell said. He would be put under sedation.

Update: Cheney got an electrical shock and is okay.

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    I'm sure... (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by desertswine on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 03:35:57 PM EST
    we're all praying for the health of Vice-president Vader.

    Yes But (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by squeaky on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 03:45:39 PM EST
    Who would have ever expected that he had a heart.

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    Of course (none / 0) (#4)
    by Edger on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 03:51:33 PM EST
    he does.........

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    And after making all that money (5.00 / 3) (#5)
    by scribe on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 03:53:31 PM EST
    investing in Euro-denominated investments last year, before the dollar cratered, there's no way he'd check out now....

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    He's got a lot to lose. (none / 0) (#7)
    by Edger on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:05:08 PM EST
    He can't take it with him, or buy his way out of where he's going.

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    Can't take it with him (5.00 / 2) (#9)
    by scribe on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:06:58 PM EST
    just means going to make doubly sure he's too mean to die.

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    But, I thought (none / 0) (#10)
    by Edger on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:14:02 PM EST
    he only appeared to be alive.

    How can he die?

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    Said elsewhere: (none / 0) (#12)
    by scribe on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:50:25 PM EST
    He's not sick or anything.  His contract's not up yet, but Old Scratch was just cruising by and decided to mess with his head a little bit.  Just a little reminder of who's really boss....
    [/snark>]

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    I don't mean to be facetious (5.00 / 5) (#3)
    by scribe on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 03:46:25 PM EST
    or whatever, but my first thought on seeing this report was "be still my heart".

    My second was:  "if he croaks, Bushie will nominate Rudy Cue Ball to be his Veep and Rahm will find a way to fold the Bush Dogs into going along*, and DiFi can't help herself to not help Georgie ever since he gave her a ride in his nice aeroplane, so maybe it's not such a bad thing if he's all right."

    -
    *  Under the Constitution, a replacement Vice President need only be confirmed by a simple majority vote of both houses.  You can look it up.

    actually i pray he stays healthy! (none / 0) (#17)
    by the rainnn on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 07:25:25 PM EST
    as but one leader of the "indict
    dick cheney    " swarm -- i need
    him to be healthy (enough) to stand
    trial -- and to go to prison.

    just keep it a-tickin', dick!

    seriously -- i wish him good
    health -- his policies should
    remove him from office, not his, erh. . .
    constitution -- end, irony.

    p e a c e

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    Irregular heart.... (5.00 / 3) (#6)
    by kdog on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 03:54:50 PM EST
    I guess that is one way to put it:)

    good (5.00 / 2) (#8)
    by Jgarza on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:05:33 PM EST
    thing he isn't depending on SCHIP.

    How shocking!! (5.00 / 3) (#11)
    by kraftysue on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:31:12 PM EST
    As a former cardiac nurse, I am always amused by the media calling it "an electrical impulse" may be required.  It is a full electric shock like you see during a cardiac arrest.

    Of course, he bamboozled the media when the "pacemaker" was inserted in the first place. It is not a pacemaker--it is a defibrillator first and foremost. The only time it becomes a pacemaker is if the shock stops the heart instead of the arrhythmia. I'm sure they did not want the public to know how serious his condition was.

    How Shocking!! (5.00 / 1) (#16)
    by katiekat489 on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 05:45:49 PM EST
    Thanks for the info-thought this might be the case from what I understand. But gee-them lie or twist the facts?--how unpatriotic and unamerican.

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    another reason I'm a devout atheist (none / 0) (#19)
    by seabos84 on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 10:44:03 PM EST
    how any god that humans have dreamed up can allow this criminal to flourish makes sense only when you look at how many other criminals there are running kleptocracies around the globe.

    rmm.

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    and the millennia of torture (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by lilybart on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 11:33:37 AM EST
    starvation, abuse, war and genocide, decade after decade, century after century and yet this god doesn't recognize that its time to pull the plug on this human experiement.

    Any time I see stories of lots of tiny kids living in the streets, preyed on by sex tourists, I call it proof there is no god.

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    I Hope Cheney Gets Well Soon (5.00 / 3) (#13)
    by john horse on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 04:58:14 PM EST
    I hope Cheney gets well soon.  I have nothing against him personally.  I just disagree with his politics and what he has done to our country.

    I am amazed!!! (none / 0) (#15)
    by katiekat489 on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 05:43:11 PM EST
    Cheney has a heart??? How shocking that it has never been on display!! Ditto for the reptilian Condi (anybody ever check out her eyes and the lack of humanity) Oh well wish no one ill since it can come back on me-karma you know?-just stating my observations,

    the undead (none / 0) (#18)
    by cpinva on Mon Nov 26, 2007 at 07:55:35 PM EST
    have no need of a regular heartbeat, just the occassional pint of warm, human blood, fresh from the vein of an innocent child.

    the president has a military aide, who follows him wherever he goes, charged with carrying the nuclear "football", in case it should ever be needed.

    vp cheney has a military aide as well, charged with carrying, not the nuclear "football", but a wooden stake and mallet. these to be used in case the vp loses it in public, and attempts to bite someone in the neck.

    it's the only way to be sure.

    it shouldn't be too hard.... (none / 0) (#21)
    by yardley on Tue Nov 27, 2007 at 05:49:54 PM EST
    all they have to do is hook the jumper cables up to the bolts on his neck. what heart? gotta be a battery pack in there. and, how does this clown get re-animated when i can't even get basic health coverage???

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