Cheney is sick again:
Doctors discovered a blood clot in Vice President Dick Cheney’s left leg Monday, a condition that could be fatal if left untreated.
The 66-year-old Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, will be treated with blood-thinning medication for several months, said spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride…
…Cheney’s health has long been an issue.
In 2005, he underwent six hours of surgery on his legs to repair a kind of aneurysm, a ballooning weak spot in an artery that can burst if left untreated.
He has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant a special pacemaker in his chest.
With my luck I’ll have one heart attack and it will be all over. I’ll never get to start an ill-advised war that results in over 600,000 innocent civilian casualties, 25,000 killed or wounded allied troops. I’ll never get to tell a sitting U.S. Senator to ‘go fuck [him]self’. I’ll never get to enjoy an apology from a man that I’ve just shot in the face. I’ll just be dead.
Here’s to Cheney’s health. I hope I can wish him continued good health without Fox News questioning my good taste. After all, it’s not like I said, like Bill Maher:
“I have zero doubt that if Dick Cheney was not in power, people wouldn’t be dying needlessly tomorrow…I’m just saying if he did die, other people, more people would live. That’s a fact.”
I could say that. But I didn’t. L’chaim.
