Schwarzenegger back at work after experiencing rapid heartbeat

[kskiska]

SACRAMENTO (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger was back at work Wednesday after seeking medical attention for a rapid heartbeat and getting cleared by doctors, who concluded his heart was functioning normally, his office said.

Spokeswoman Margita Thompson said the governor experienced the rapid heartbeat Tuesday after coming down with a stomach flu. He was taken to the University of California, Davis, Medical Center about midnight after his personal doctor recommended he have the symptoms checked.

He spent several hours in the hospital and was released after doctors determined his heart rate was normal.

"He's feeling fine and working," Thompson said in the statement.

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[XNASA]

1. That's impossible. He has no heart.

Or was it a brain? Both?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. His ticker went pitty pat

because he was frightened by the revolt of the repukes in his party.

[ronnykmarshall]

5. Ain't that the truth!

They are a'fixin to have a little "chat" with Arnie.

Betcha McClintock is warming up in the bullpen as we speak.

[Ian David]

6. The Republicans are revolting! You said it, they stink on ice!

Courtesy of the right-wing nutjob hatemongers at Newsmax:

From: NewsMax.com [e-mail]

Breaking from NewsMax.com

GOP in Revolt Against Schwarzenegger; Mel Gibson Touted as Challenger

California Republicans are in open revolt against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger over his hiring of a Democratic operative as his new chief of staff.

And one leading state GOP official is touting actor Mel Gibson as a possible Republican primary challenger to Schwarzenegger.

Officials with the California Republican Party are said to be furious with Schwarzenegger and have demanded a private meeting with the governor to complain about his appointment of Susan P. Kennedy, who was a Cabinet secretary during the administration of Gov. Gray Davis.

Schwarzenegger was elected governor after an extraordinary effort succeeded to recall Davis in 2003.

Republicans note that Kennedy was also an abortion-rights activist and Democratic Party executive.

Republican operatives said grass-roots volunteers were so disturbed by the appointment that they were threatening to abandon Schwarzenegger during his re-election bid next year, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Times said the movement to draft Mel Gibson to run against Schwarzenegger in the Republican primary next year is due in part because the success of his movie "The Passion of the Christ" could help his chances among religious conservatives.

Gibson "seems to be more consistent with the Republican message" than the governor is, said Mike Spence, president of the California Republican Assembly, a grass-roots organization separate from the state party.

GOP board member Keith Carlson told the Sacramento Bee: "The spirit of the recall was to oust Davis and his cronies, and now one of his cronies is back."

Schwarzenegger agreed to a face-to-face meeting with Republican Party officials next week.

Top GOP officials are particularly worried about Kennedy getting inside information about their statewide election efforts next year, the Times reports.

"What does it mean to have a chief of staff from the other party during a year of re-election?" asked state Republican Party Chairman Duf Sundheim.

"This is one of the reasons we wanted to sit down, to express these concerns."

The board of directors of the California Republican Party demanded the private meeting with Schwarzenegger because it "strongly disagrees" with Kennedy's appointment, according to an e-mail sent out Monday. It would be the first-ever meeting of the Republican board and Schwarzenegger over a policy dispute.

GOP Assemblyman Ray Haynes said the hiring of Kennedy has convinced him to rescind his support for the governor.

"I spent a lot of time trying to explain what the governor has said and defended it," he told the Times.

"I gave him the benefit of the doubt and told people he was going to do the right thing. I am not going to do that anymore."

Other Calif. Republican operatives say the appointment of Kennedy is a purposeful move to the left to win re-election in 2006 and demonstrates that his wife Maria Shriver, a Democrat, is in operational control of her husband's political future.

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[ronnykmarshall]

9. Help Maria, help!!

Oooooo look at da girly man. He was to haf' his vife to bail him out.

[Beetwasher]

3. I Think He Should Take Some More Steroids

That oughta fix him right up.

[Ian David]

4. What a girlie-man. He needs to wash his hands after he poops.

Then he won't get a "stomach flu."

I'm sure the nurses in the hospital were glad to see him.

[gauguin57]

7. Pamela Anderson probably walked by.

And der Gropinator's heart went pitty pitty pat.

Actually, if you recall, Ah-nuld had heart valve surgery a few years back. Maybe he needs a 50,000 mile checkup.

[catzies]

17. IIRC he got a replacement valve - a pg's valve. The pigs are in revolt

Both in Sacramento and in Der Gropenfuhrer's chest.


I'm so going to hell...

[henslee]

8. You teenk I need ull sis greef from der peeple ven I got un bum ticker?

[VaYallaDawg]

10. chust vait, chust vait, ve fix ull dees girly men, youll see

[alfredo]

11. Back in the 70's I knew some "muscle heads" their culture was

a drug culture. They loved their steroids, cocaine and angel dust. All the muscle heads I knew back then died in their 40's and 50's.

I learned quickly not to take a joint from a muscle head. Too often the joints were dusted with angel dust (PCP).


http://www.brantleycenter.com/fad/pcp-angeldust.html

How it can hurt you.

Loss of sense of pain, psychic experiences, states of panic and fear of death lasting for several days. Bizarre, compulsive and violent behavior, involuntary eye movement, rigid muscles, loss of gag and corneal reflexes. Arching of the body, coma, alternating high and low blood pressure, irregular heartbeat, irregular breathing, severe nausea and vomiting, alternating high and low body temperature. Loss of memory and thought processes, ongoing speech problems, depression, toxic psychosis as aggressive and assaultive behavior, hallucinations.

Death from stopped breathing, convulsions, brain hemorrhage, kidney failure, drug combinations, fatal accidents. Murder, suicide, self mutilation, and drowning from swimming under the influence to enhance floating sensation.

Dependence arises as tolerance develops. Use is often in "runs" of two or three days, with disorientation and depression after withdrawal.

[Demeter]

12. It's Called Panic--An Anxiety Attack

Get used to it--it's the GOP equivalent of bird flu. It's going to spread fast. And there's no cure (heeheeheee)

[UTUSN]

13. Yip, Panic --------- at Hard Decisions to Make n/t

[stepnw1f]

14. Panic Attack

Horrible feeling to have....

However, it's funny to see Mr. Macho go to the hospital for something like this. Oh the irony...

[rainbow4321]

15. Wonder if he could even look the nurses in their faces..

after all the shit he has given them/their profession? Hey, Ahnold, still want to "kick their butts" now that they helped save your life?Assuming he even allowed them in the area where he was being treated.




Nurses are here to SAVE a person's ass, not KISS it.

[Politicub]

16. Sounds like he's hitting the 'roids again (n/t)

[Walt Starr]

18. Consequences of overindulgence in 'roids. n/t

[WhiteTara]

19. he's in an absolute panic because

the only thing he knows is fake movie stuff and no one is buying.

[kineneb]

20. heart? he has one?

too many steroids, Arnie boy. Mama said you would pay some time.

[anitar1]

21. oops! I read it as RABID heartbeat at first. n/t

[all.of.me]

22. must be menopausal. poor thing.

[SoCalDem]

23. Just 'set decoration'...

This gives him a graceful way out of running again.. His HUMONGOUS defeat in November tells him what he needs to know.. He will not win re-election, and I really don;t think he wants to be.. The "heart" issue gives him an easy exit and a sympathetic one too..