Bush to Be Sedated for Colonoscopy (IS THIS REALLY A NEWSSTORY-AP has a slow newsday???)

Associated Press ^ | Fri Jun 28, 7:31 PM ET | RON FOURNIER

[Jhoffa_]

This has the potential to be really funny..

Think about it for a minute, Dubya can say anything he wants, and then blame it on being groggy and sedated.

Remember the press field day over hits like: "Big Time" "Pootie-Poot" and "Barney Fag"

Imagine what they would do if Dubya said something like:

"Felt like that Doctor had his whole arm in my McCain.. uh, whoops.. "

Then later:

"Hey John.. It was just the drugs talking man."

Bwahahah..

[chnsmok]

If I were President, I would bomb something just to get off the front page!

[usconservative]

I really have to wonder ....

What is the fascination on the part of the Media in knowing when the doctors are done shoving things up the Presidents arse? Does the media have this much of an anal fetish or something?

I mean, colonoscopy's happen every day for crying out loud.

[varon]

President Bush ( news - web sites) said he will briefly transfer the powers of the presidency to Vice President Dick Cheney …..

Just curious if this brief stint with Presidential powers would entitle Cheney to be addressed as ex-President Cheney, after this event passes?

[usconservative]

Just curious if this brief stint with Presidential powers would entitle Cheney to be addressed as ex-President Cheney, after this event passes?

No, because under the 25th Amendment, he assumes Presidential powers not the Presidency itself. There is no "swearing in" ceremony which would make him President for this short time.

[Jhoffa_]

Hey, good thing it's Cheney and not algor.

Can you imagine Clinton chasing him around the White House trying to get the Presidency back.

Clinton: "Where is he? Where is that little weasel? Al! You come back here with my Presidency!"

White House Staffer: "Sir, he has locked himself in the bathroom"

Clinton: "Al, you unlock this door RIGHT NOW!"

Gore: "No, go away!"

Clinton: "Al, you come out here this instant or I am sending in the Seals.. You little backstabber!"

Gore: "There's no one in here, now go away.. Ack! What's this in the sink? Oh My Gosh! Yecch!"

[foreverfree]

Simple outpatient surgery. The only reason Cheney is set in place is because the procedure does allow for sedation if necessary. But he can be awake the entire time.Well, I had a colonoscopy 2 years ago and I was sedated then. According to my brain it lasted all of 5 seconds. They found nothing bad up my butt.

foreverfree

[aruanan]

The way it's done here (U. of Chicago hospitals): no solid foods 24 in advance. Nothing after midnight. The night before, a laxative is followed by drinking about 6 quarts of a high-salt solution to clean everything out. They try to make it palatable by flavoring it. I will always hate pineapple. That cold, heavy metallic flavor covered with the merest gauze of pineapple was the worst part of the experience. I'd rather have the actual invasive procedure any time than to have to drink that stuff again.

[aruanan]

Schadenfreude by people who fear and loathe W? Still riled they didn't get AlGore?

Or, they'd rather see W, as President, getting a colonoscopy than to actually have Gore, a colonoscopy, as President.

[ErnBatavia]

Oh,and one other thing. Did you know that Algore invented the colonoscopy?

Yes, I'd heard that; and he received his Congressional Medal of Honor for administering one on a battlefield in Vietnam.

[Don Myers]

He has to be sedated. What a wimp. When they did it to me, I did not get a sedative. They told me to look at the screen, and said that is you. The internal view is really interesting. "Just hang on a minute, boy while I make this left turn....wheeeee."

[InvisibleChurch]

abc broke in during the rush limbaugh show to report that someone had smelled smoke in the capitol building, but that it was only dust on a heater and after evacuation everyone returned safely to their desks. what a nonnnnnnnnnnnnnnn-story

[Trust but Verify]

I don't remember a single thing about the procedure. Those were some very good drugs! Of course, for a control freak like I am, not remembering a single thing can be pretty disconcerting, too!

[Trust but Verify]

Sedated does not mean asleep. He will be awake, but maybe a little groggy. I'll bet you had the same or similar type of 'sedation'.

[Don Myers]

They didn't say anything about sedation.

[ASA Vet]

uh oh ... now, I'm unconstitutional

The Constitution specifies things the government can do, and
puts limits on what the government can not do.

Are you the government?
If not, feel free to express your religious opinion.

[Don Myers]

Oh, and I was not groggy in the least; at least, no more so than normal.

[elcaudillo]

Hastert not Dasshole.

Dasshole needs one of these colon inspections. I volunteer to operate the Roto-Rooter!

[mewzilla]

I'm with you. The colon prep's the worst part. I'm sure the President will be very happy to have this over for a while. And as for the transfer, he probably just wants to give Big Time a cheap thrill. Cheney's earned it :).

Good luck, Mr. President. The procedure's a metaphorical pain in the posterior, but well worth it.