Dick Cheney had heart surgery last week at a disclosed location (Fairfax Hospital in Virginia) to have a ventricular assist device implanted. Slowly but surely, he is getting a bionic heart. Kind of like Locutis of Borg.
All joking aside, it appears that Mr. Cheney's heart disease is progressing.
"A few weeks ago, it became clear that I was entering a new phase of the disease when I began to experience increasing congestive heart failure," Cheney said in a statement. After a series of recent tests and discussions with my doctors, I decided to take advantage of one of the new technologies available and have a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implanted."
Aside from the stress chronic disease puts on the family, if Dick Cheney dies before he gives testimony under oath, we will likely never know where all the "bodies are buried" from the previous administration. Cheney owes this great nation of ours an explanation for all the things he did and ordered others to do. If he dies before then, we will never know how dark it got, with all the torture, spying, and politically motivated disclosure of national secrets.
Please let him live that long.