Cheney has a hospital room ready for him whever he goes.

[KoKo]

Yesterday morning C-Span had their usual person from the "Hotline" mag on and the person through out an odd bit of information. He said that
a Florida Legislator collapsed and was rushed to a hospital and he was surprised when he woke up to find the room filled with flowers and two secret servicement outside the door.

He was surprised at how fast his constituents had reacted in reading a room and showing him such concern, until he was told that it was "VP Cheney's room and that the VP always has a room ready in case he has a
problem."

Did anyone else see this? I was hoping another DU'er would post it yesterday, but when no one did, I thought it was important enough to post it here.

Our taxpayer dollars at work again. But a room with "flowers?" all ready wherever he goes? Is it vanity that he requests this or is he in that bad a shape after all? And, does that mean there's a room for the Chimp also wherever he goes?

I thought it was weird.

[TNDemo]

1. There are always rooms for them.

Flowers I don't know about, but it was always a nightmare when Gore and Clinton came to town together with wives because that would mean four ER rooms at Vanderbilt had to be kept empty just in case.

[THUNDER HANDS]

2. yes I knew of this

I work in one of the hospitals assigned to take either Cheney or Bush if something happens to them while they're on Long Island.

[hatrack]

3. This is SOP

Whenever the president or vice-president go anywhere, there's a room and doctors on standby, blood of the requisite type available, etc. Flowers? I don't know about that part. :shrug:

[seabeyond]

4. f*

so now we are using our tax dollars for the schools that is for sure, but a room full of flowers every couple days. geez us

[tekriter]

5. Don't know about the flowers,..

they may have been put there by the hospital. But having ER suites open and hospital rooms set aside has been standard practice for a long time. It may go back to the John Kennedy years, I think I read somewhere that Parkland Hospital was the closest to JFK's motorcade site but that little planning had been done by the Secret Service in advance. They just knew where the closest place was, that's all.

[SheilaT]

6. I can tell you that Cheney

always has an ambulance on ready everywhere he goes. There's one in his motorcade every time.

[ChickMagic]

7. I think that's SOP

When Bill and Hillary came to Dallas a few years ago, the secret service came to the hospital where I work to evaluate security and set aside a room. Anything could happen - someone could break a leg, get dehydrated, whatever. Odds are that Cheney would need it more than anyone.

[KoKo]

8. I can understand the room ready, but the flowers? The Hotline guy

said "room full of flowers?" And, two secret servicemen outside the door?

Emergency rooms on standby and a room ready would be fine. But two secret service people. Wouldn't they just come with him, if he was injured? Why station them there?

[ChickMagic]

10. The hospital would know they were coming

The secret service would get nervous if all the hospital employees knew that a high profile person was on the way. They're afraid that someone would put something in the room before they got there.

The flowers? Well, I've seen the hospital dress up rooms for ruling class patients before. They pretty much kiss their collective butts.

[Mika]

9. Comfirmation link here

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/8583413.htm

TALLAHASSEE

Senator's hospital stay fit for a vice president

When state Sen. Victor Crist was briefly hospitalized for a hypoglycemic reaction on the final night of the legislative session, he couldn't believe the accommodations at the hospital.

''They put me in this room where there were flowers, a big TV set and Secret Service agents outside the door,'' said Crist, who was taken by ambulance to Tallahassee Memorial Hospital after falling faint Friday night on the Senate floor.

The 46-year-old Republican lawmaker from Tampa was quite impressed.

Then he learned that the room, the only available one, was prepared just in case anything might happen to Vice President Dick Cheney, who was in town to deliver the graduation speech Saturday at Florida State University.

Cheney has a long history of heart trouble.

[kskiska]

11. Cheney is a lot sicker than we know.

John Dean discusses in his book how Cheney has never released his medical records. He's had four heart attacks. Each attack has left him with more dead heart muscle. His bypass was done 20 years ago, and 20 years is the shelf life of such a procedure. The implantation of his latest device is a last ditch effort to keep him alive. I suspect his disappearances have a lot to do with his health.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Let's all fire up those microwaves!

EDIT}}}}Jus Kiddin'!

[wuushew]

13. How can anyone that rich have four heart attacks?

Unless Cheney has extremely bad genes most of his heart attacks could have been prevented by lifestyle changes.

I mean come on the CEO of McDonalds dying of a heart attack? Who would worship money over their health?