Raw Story reports Dick “dick” Cheny dozed off at a Wednesday WH meeting to discuss the California wildfires, and adds some historical filler material:

Vice President Dick Cheney was caught dozing off on live television during an emergency cabinet meeting called on Wednesday to coordinate federal efforts to deal with the devastating California wildfires. "I believe the effort is well-coordinated," President Bush told reporters after the meeting, emphasizing that his administration is working to avoid the mistakes made with Hurricane Katrina.

Cheney was previously spotted napping in April 2006, during a press briefing by President Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao. Although he insisted he had merely been looking down at some notes, photographs clearly showed him asleep, and there was speculation that he might be preparing to step down for medical reasons. Cheney was seen sleeping again during a meeting on Iraq in May 2006.

As one local Washington station suggested, "Perhaps even the vice president needs a power nap once in awhile."

The Raw Story article contains an embedded video from ABC’s This Morning America showing Mr Cheney resting his eyes. It is obvious that he was actually awake, and thinking. One can see this by the way his eyes popped open when he heard Mr Bu$h discussing helping someone. The comments of the TMA host were incorrect. A statement to this effect has been transmitted to ABC News.

It has been reported that ABC News has coincidently decided to entirely revamp its early morning lineup. Management personnel will temporarily help out until new hosts and film editors can be hired.

Readers might remember that Mr Cheney had a heart defibrillator replacement during the summer of 2007. The editors of CNN.com were obviously guilty of disrespect by referring to Mr Cheney’s life-supporting equipment as a “ticker battery” and they have been dealt with.

Summarily.

"During the vice president's annual physical examination in June, testing of his implantable cardioverter-defibrillator indicated that the device's battery has reached the level where elective replacement of the device is recommended," Megan McGinn, deputy press secretary for Cheney, said Friday.

She has said doctors must replace the entire device to replace the battery, and that the surgery will be performed at George Washington University Hospital.

During his routine checkup last month, Cheney underwent a stress test, and doctors also checked out the defibrillator, which was implanted in June 2001 to shock his heart if he experiences an irregular heartbeat. The stress test showed no blockages in his heart. Doctors also said then that his defibrillator was functioning properly and that they had not had to treat any irregular beating of the vice president's heart.

Alert readers might have noticed that since the Summary trial of several CNN editors in July 2007 and the swift dispensing of justice, the organization has been far more respectful of Mr Cheney and the Bu$h malAdministration.