Did Cheney have another angina attack?

[Emit]

(Forgive me if this has been posted.)

What is up here, with the secrecy of Cheney's health? Why hide it? Do we not have a right to know what is up with our VP's condition?

First this from Huffington:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/arianna-huffington/is-cheney-alright_3160.html


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...

Then, also from Huffington, a follow up:

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.

And then we're fed this. The "official" story:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/06/24/national/w182148D54.DTL

Cheney Visits Orthopedist in Colorado

Friday, June 24, 2005
(06-24) 18:21 PDT 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.

[brainshrub]

1. Remember when it was the Soviets who treated the medical

Remember when it was the Soviets who treated the medical condition of their leaders as state secrets?

[NEOBuckeye]

2. Nah. He'd have to actually have a heart to suffer that.

[tritsofme]

3. Rhenquist steps down, Cheney resigns

could make for an interesting summer.

[Chipper Chat]

4. Hello Scalia; hello Condi.

Welcome to the ice age.

[CityDem]

5. Not too far fetched

It would be a perfect time for Cheney to resign for health reasons. AWOL could appoint the next repuke nominee for president. I am not sure about Scalia, only because of his age. In any case, it would be some entertaining senate hearings.