Did Cheney have a heart attack?

I just came across the following post on Americablog:

Cheney checks into Vail hospital, White House may be lying about what happened

by John in DC - 6/25/2005 01:05:00 PM

I had received this tip last night, but as I couldn't confirm it, I didn't want to post it. Arianna has apparently confirmed it, as she was there!

Arianna seems to have found the White House lying about what's wrong with Cheney. Evidence points to his heart having issues, and the White House appears to be lying about it. Welcome to the Soviet Politburo. We now no longer have the right to know about the serious health problems of our leaders.

The fact that lying has become a reflex to this administration is telling. Cheney is the VP. He has no constitutional obligations in the executive brach. A "no comment" would do if they didn't want to say why he checked into the hospital.

The above reference to "Arriana confirming this situation" is Arriana Huffington. She just happened to be in Vail when it was going on. She went to the hospital to see what she could find out.

From her blog:

UPDATE: Cheney’s Health: What is the White House Hiding?

VAIL -- Why is the White House still insisting that the only health issue Vice President Cheney dealt with today is an old football injury to his knee, visiting renowned orthopedist Dr. Richard Steadman? At the Vail Valley Institute dinner tonight, I kept asking what those in the know here knew. Little by little, here is the story I pieced together: After the Secret Service secured the Vail Valley Medical Center, including the parking lot, the Vice President arrived under his own power and checked in at the orthopedic center under the name “Dr. Hoffman”. He was immediately whisked to the adjacent cardiac unit, suffering from what was described to me as “an angina attack”. The security was so high that a Secret Service agent wouldn’t let an ER nurse out of the bathroom that she had gone into just before the Veep arrived. “Get back in there,” the agent told her. Confounded, she called her husband on her cell phone, telling him “something big” was going on. And indeed it was… but you wouldn’t know it from the White House. It appears that not only doesn’t the public deserve to know what is really going on in Iraq (“last throes”?) we don’t deserve to know what is going on with our Vice President’s health.

The Link that Arriana provides takes us to SFGate.com:

(06-24) 18:21 PDT Vail, Colo. (AP) --

Vice President Dick Cheney visited a renowned orthopedist Friday while in town for a forum held by a conservative think tank, his spokeswoman said.

Cheney met with Dr. Richard Steadman to evaluate an old football injury to his knee, Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said.

Steadman focuses primarily on sports medicine, and his Steadman Hawkins Clinic has treated a number of famous athletes. In 2003, Los Angeles Lakers player Kobe Bryant was in Vail for knee surgery at the clinic when he was accused of raping a hotel worker.

Cheney was scheduled to attend the American Enterprise Institute World Forum, which was started in 1982 by former President Gerald Ford.

What the hell is going on?

-The Oklahoma Hippy