“Vice” president Dick Cheney had his robotic heart replaced this morning, apparently without complications, and “resumed his normal schedule” of whatever he does on Saturday afternoons — probably reading the new Harry Potter book, working in the garden, or bombing some Muslims somewhere, possibly in Iran this time.
While Cheney was under the knife, George W. Bush enjoyed two hours of being “in charge.” White House spokesman Tony Snow said Bush sat in Cheney’s chair, pretended to talk to “big important people” and “the King of China” on the telephone, appointed his dogs to the Supreme Court, and had “secret service agents” accompany him to lunch at an Applebee’s in suburban Maryland, where he enjoyed a “presidential burger” with curly fries and then had some ice cream.
Cheney’s heart device replaced [Washington Post]









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The White House has released video of the end of the surgery and Cheney getting out of the Hostpital:
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And a longer video of the operation itself:
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vice-president strangelove can startup the doomsday machine again.
quick recovery because its easy to snap on his chestal plate.
@Lionel Hutz: Frankenstein and his guttural sounds were more articulate than Bush ever could hope to be.
Cheney and his robot heart are gonna be president 'til the batteries run out somewhere around 2207 A.D.
Bush's dogs might be more qualified than Harriet Myers.
Mr. President, I hate to break it to you...
but Voldemort is Harry's dad.
Seriously.
"Changing battery in Cheney's heart" indeed! And I was squaring the round blue verb.
@Emmanuel Goldstein: I thought Harry was the love child of Leonardo DaVinci and Dan Brown?
@El Ojo:
Come on, everyone knows that Ron is Voldemort's robot son.
So will this new heart finally allow Cheney to experience human feelings and emotions?
VPOTUS got one of them new SEIKO self winding artificial hearts, I saw a show called How do they do it? on the Discovery Channel about it. With the price of oil over $70 a barrel, VPOTUS decided it was time to replace the 2-stroke engine with something more environmental friendly and cheaper to run. No kidding.
@Publican:
The new defib-ulator now makes it impossible foe Dick to tell a lie, or swear.
@David Flores:
With these new emotions, Dick is now sailing in unfamiliar waters and might become more unstable as a result. He should be closely monitored for the next 72 hours.
Surely someone has told Cheney that multiple Horcruxes provide a diminishing margin of return? Especially if you shoot a wad of them into someone else's face.
Ken,
A typical Saturday afternoon for Cheney goes something like this:
12:00 noon to 2:30 pm
Dick shuts down the main computers involved in domestic spying at the NSA to play War Games with some of his buddies. The winner is the one who involves the most countries in Thermo-nuclear annihilation in the least amount of time.
2:30 pm to 5:00 pm
Dick then goes online to play Monopoly with the board members of Halliburton. Only, the game-board properties are the oil and natural gas fields of the world. The winner, naturally, is the one who controls the biggest oil and gas fields. When you pass "Go" you collect $40Billion in quarterly earnings.
I envy those intimate Saturday afternoons. Makes me wish I were v.p.
It's not anymore Cheney's heart device. They were looking for a teflon-silicon-heart to replace it and they found it in Gonzales' chest.
@Whattheheck: But it is the new form of Russian Roulette. First he sets a random parameter. If the parameter comes up red, the thermo-nuclear war is not "pretend."
@Whattheheck: Now that you mention it, I prefer to envision Cheney & Pals cutting a cake in Havana.
Next week: Condi goes under the knife to have an ingrown toenail removed. It will prove fatal, but no one will take any notice.
One correction on your post, Ken. Bush wouldn't be caught dead in Maryland. That Applebee's was in Virginia. Maryland is full of Democrats and minorities, you see.
I can just imagine the heart-warming scene of Cheney discussing Harry Potter with his grandkids: "You know, Voldemort isn't all evil. Sometimes you're out casting spells and you happen to hit your friend with an Avada Kedavra. And the Crucio curse? As long as it doesn't cause major organ failure or death, it's not really Unforgivable."
"It's just the mainstream media blows everything out of proportion."
So, the Dark Lord got the contacts on his DieHard cleaned at some fancy smantzy private hospital at fucking tax payer expense. Unwilling to sacrifice in time of war, Dick? The procedure could have been done at Walter Reed. Plus Walter Reed has excellent out-patient care. Just ask the guys in Building 18.
Christ, if this Bush presidency is "brief", why do I feel like I've been living in Toledo since 2001?
Damn, I missed the Live Cheney Aid Concert.
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