[BluesDuke]

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.

The question before the house, though, should be why the hell would Mr. Bush or anyone want to be awake for a colonoscopy. Bad enough that he's likely, until the procedure is done, to get a lot of kidding along the line of up yours!...

[gov_bean_ counter]

I heard somewhere that an unnamed Democrat House member offered to take the exam for him...

[gov_bean_ counter]

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

[aruanan]

The question before the house, though, should be why the hell would Mr. Bush or anyone want to be awake for a colonoscopy.

So you can move when the doctor tells you to in order to facilitate guiding the colonoscope around the colon.