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Friday, July 20, 2007
Scoping Out the President
President Bush will have a routine colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said.
While I heartily concur that it is a good idea to shove something up George Bush's ... oops ... perhaps I had better change this sentence a bit: While I heartily concur that it is a good idea to provide the President with a colonoscopy, it is a TERRIBLE idea to leave Dick Cheney in charge - even for five minutes!
The procedure will be supervised by Dr. Richard Tubb, the president's doctor. It will be done by a team from the National Naval Medical Center at Bethesda, Md.
The colonoscopy will involve inserting aa long, flexible, lighted tube into George's rectum and slowly guiding it into his colon. The tube is called a colonoscope. The scope transmits an image of the inside of the colon onto a video screen so the doctor can carefully examine the lining of the colon. The scope bends so the doctor can move it around the curves of the Presidential colon.
Because the President will be under the effects of anesthesia, Bush has elected to implement Section 3 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, making Cheney acting president until Bush indicates he is prepared to reassume his authority.
I want to wish the President a very swift and successful procedure and a very quick recovery. The only thing that could possibly be worse than having George Bush in the oval office is to have Dick Cheney there.
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