By the way, I was very disappointed by the misleading thread title.
I suspect Haliburton owns some hospitals and probably some donors as well. 
I’m trying to come up with an “I had other priorities” joke. I’ll be back when one comes to me.
In all seriousness, is he still getting government sponsored healthcare - or given his advanced age, Medicare? What are the standard healthcare perks that ex-VPs receive?
E-Presidents and ex-VP’s get free health care for life. I believe their families do too. I doubt there’s any expense that he would be spared. If he needs a heart, they’ll find him a heart, though I suspect he might have his own…procurers…for something like that.
That was my husband’s reaction to hearing this story. “Man, you’d think if anyone could buy himself a heart, it’d be Dick Cheney.”
sergei grinkov had a fatal heart attack at 28. sometimes genetics roll snake eyes. grinkov was a fairly fit man who had incredibly clogged arteries.
cheney is rather lucky in that he has survived this long with a bum ticker.
More our bad luck than his good, IMHO.
I believe that when Cheney made people suffer, he sincerely believed that it was in the service of some greater good, though I think he was mistaken in that. You, on the other hand, want him to suffer just for the sake of suffering, which to me is worse than what he did. Or do you suppose his suffering will cancel out the suffering he caused? Is there a dead kid in Iraq coming to life as we speak? Perhaps you will take Cheney’s suffering as proof that God is on your side, and thus rest easier at night.
I was going to ask how you would view your own future suffering in view of your revenge-based moral reasoning, but I can see you are suffering right now or else you would not have said what you did.
No way. He wanted to make money for Halliburton and the wealthiest Americans at the expense of everyone else.
Remember how after a VP debate Gore thanked him and Cheney ignored him? He is an unmitigated bastard.
I don’t enjoy any suffering, I just wish he would die.
Actually, I hope he holds out to January 1 so I can put him back on my Celebrity Death Pool.
I would certainly wish his predicament on several people, starting with the last president of this country.
No
Mjeh…
This.
I disagree. And I think you’re very naive at best, delusional at worst.
In a way I guess, since many of his victims or his victims families will be a bit happier.
I don’t believe in magic.
Really…? Wanting one evil person to suffer is actually worse to you than making millions suffer? That sounds like a very weird belief system.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
As soon as I saw the article in the Science Times, I said, “I can just hear the ‘Cheney has a heart?’ right now.”
His daughter Lynn is also a major bitch. Nasal-voiced, snotty daddy’s girl who simply parrots what she thinks daddy would want her to say. A case of the apple not falling far from the tree.
I don’t know much about his other daughter other than she’s gay. She’s probably the only sane one.
No, I don’t have much sympathy or compassion for such an evil piece of crap that Cheney is.
So did Hitler.
I actually don’t even believe it’s true for Cheney. I have come to believe that was true for W, but I honestly believe Cheney was acting from pure, cynical self-interest. He always kn he was lying. He kept trying to lie about about an Iraq/al Qaeda connection long after it was proven to be bullshit, and he tried to literally torture Gitmo prisoners into saying Saddam had something to do with 9/11 so he could use it as a pretense to invade Iraq. Eventually he had to resort to “WMD’s” because he couldn’t get them to say what he wanted them to say.
At no point did he ever believe he was doing the right thing or protecting America. He snowed Bush into believing that, but it was a manipulative game to him. He was basically Charles Manson with real political power.
John Edwards, maybe?
Either way, no.
:smack:
Thanks.
Never Mind.
Disregarding the cruel and snarky posts, s there any better proof of the patriotism of this man? He could have retired to alife of luxury-instead he stayed in the DC snakepit, fighting for what he saw as right.
A hypocrite he was not.