Politico reports that the former Vice President, Dick Cheney, recently received a heart transplant:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74431.html
Cheney, 71, had been on a transplant waiting list for more than 20 months, and is now recovering in the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va.
“Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift,” Cheney aide Kara Ahern said in a statement, according to the news service.
Dick Cheney is not a tremendously nice man, at least in terms of his public work. He was the dark force behind some of the most egregious power grabs by the executive branch in recent memory, enthusiastically and unapologetically supported the use of torture by US forces, and was in every respect one of the most ruthless proponents of the worst of neoconservatism ever to have occupied high public office.
Nonetheless, the man is recovering from heart surgery so I will spare him the polemic that I normally feel like writing whenever he is forced back into my consciousness by current events.
However, I can’t help but allow myself a little chuckle when I think back on this old article from The Onion:
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-heart-device-allows-cheney-to-experience-love,2294/
That is all. For now.
Semi-Partisan Politics 