View Full Version : We have/had a new president today!
RStar
07-21-2007, 09:12 AM
Saturday, July 21st 2007 CAMP DAVID, Md. - Doctors removed five small polyps from President Bush's colon on Saturday after he temporarily transferred the powers of his office for two hours to Vice President Dick Cheney under the rarely invoked 25th Amendment.
The whole story here (http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20070721/46a184c0_3ca6_1552620070721435134939)
So, do they dock his pay two hours? :D
Motorboat Cruiser
07-21-2007, 09:15 AM
They should have issued a subpoena while he was a member of the executive branch. Gotta be quick.
Congress almost certainly doesn't have the authority to subpoena the president. Temporary presidency is probably the only more protected office Cheney could have than the one he's regularly in.
CoasterMatt
07-21-2007, 09:37 AM
Meet the old boss, same as the old boss...
JWBear
07-21-2007, 09:43 AM
Congress almost certainly doesn't have the authority to subpoena the president. Temporary presidency is probably the only more protected office Cheney could have than the one he's regularly in.
Perhaps they should get Ken Star to do it. He likes subpoenaing Presidents...
Technically, Clinton's testimony was not subpoenaed. Ken Starr issued a subpoena, which many people questioned whether he had the legal authority to do (http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/07/25/clinton.subpoena/) (and most said if he did it was only because the issue had hand had nothing to do with official actions).
The status of the Office of the Independent Counsel was a gray area that had never been tried. Much as Bush has done with several subpoenas Clinton said he would not respond to the subpoena but if it were withdrawn he would testify willingly under negotiated terms (one day only, at the White House instead of before the grand jury). The subpoena was withdrawn so the question was never settled. The the Office of the Independent Counsel was abolished and now any subpoena would be for direct testimony to a congressional committee about official actions. I doubt that would hold up if taken to court.
JWBear
07-21-2007, 10:00 AM
It was a joke, Alex.
blueerica
07-21-2007, 10:06 AM
Maybe it was all an attempt to raise awareness for men to get their colon checked out. After all, if it's good enough for Tha Prez, then it's good enough for me/so-and-so. At least that's what I'm hoping - because any kind of press coverage seems almost silly to me.
Later, Bush played with his dogs, Barney and Miss Beazley, and planned a bike ride in the afternoon at the presidential compound in the Catoctin Mountains of western Maryland.Bike ride? After a colonoscopy? Not that I have a clue, but it seem like a bike ride isn't something I'd choose.
Ghoulish Delight
07-21-2007, 10:09 AM
Maybe it was all an attempt to raise awareness for men to get their colon checked out. After all, if it's good enough for Tha Prez, then it's good enough for me/so-and-so. At least that's what I'm hoping - because any kind of press coverage seems almost silly to me.However, by handing over power to Cheney, isn't the message, "Ya' might die!"? Or rather, "You might be unexpectedly incapacitated!"
Yes. And I find the reality behind the joke more interesting (especially since someone put forward the same idea, in all seriousness, on CNN yesterday afternoon; not the Ken Starr doing it part but the subpoena him now part, based on the Ken Starr history).
Cheney should have signed a new executive order in his hours of power exempting himself from presidential oversight just to completely twist the executive branch into a pretzel.
Bike ride? After a colonoscopy? Not that I have a clue, but it seem like a bike ride isn't something I'd choose.
At least he didn't go the Katie Couric route. I assume some blog out there has used the headline "Bush goes in search of his head"?
Chernabog
07-21-2007, 10:17 AM
It makes me incredibly happy to think about a 4 foot camera being shoved up the president's a$$ today :) Gosh darn does he deserve it.
blueerica
07-21-2007, 10:21 AM
However, by handing over power to Cheney, isn't the message, "Ya' might die!"? Or rather, "You might be unexpectedly incapacitated!"
Well, I was lightly joking, because any coverage at all seems silly, to me. But on a serious note - who knows, maybe it wouldn't have gotten as much coverage?
I'm with Alex, though...
Cheney should have signed a new executive order in his hours of power exempting himself from presidential oversight just to completely twist the executive branch into a pretzel.
Now that would have been funny.
Time to go pick up the Potter book!
The only thing that gives me more pleasure then the words, President Cheney, is, President Cheney strung up on D.C. lamp-post.
Gn2Dlnd
07-21-2007, 02:29 PM
Or strung out in an AC/DC alley.
RStar
07-21-2007, 07:49 PM
Or strung out in an AC/DC alley.
They named an alley after the band??
alphabassettgrrl
07-21-2007, 08:04 PM
My friend sent me an email titled "Bush goes in search of his head".
Morrigoon
07-23-2007, 10:03 AM
Is nobody else worried about what Cheney might've DONE while he was "in office"???
Not really, it isn't like there was much stopping him from doing whatever he wants while not in the office.
Or strung out in an AC/DC alley.
They named an alley after an outlet?
Nephythys
07-23-2007, 10:22 AM
:rolleyes:
Kevy Baby
07-23-2007, 10:50 AM
They named an alley after an outlet?No silly, as RStar referenced, the alley is named after the band!
No silly, as RStar referenced, the alley is named after the band!
Then what was the outlet named after?
JWBear
07-23-2007, 11:54 AM
Not really, it isn't like there was much stopping him from doing whatever he wants while not in the office.
Ain't that the truth!
Morrigoon
07-23-2007, 01:25 PM
And here I thought it was a reference to a song in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express ;)
Kevy Baby
07-23-2007, 02:44 PM
Then what was the outlet named after?Edison
(Believe it or not, the basic 110, three-prong wall outlet is referred to as an "Edison" plug. Don't know if that is an official name or just common nomenclature, but: there ya go!)
alphabassettgrrl
07-23-2007, 11:59 PM
Edison, as opposed to twist-lock or stage-pin. :)
JWBear
07-27-2007, 03:36 PM
I just love Mark Morford (http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/07/27/notes072707.DTL&nl=fix)!
"I never ever in a million years thought I'd say this, but oh my God am I grateful that Bush got back into the president's seat almost immediately," sighed much of the nation, collectively, as it slammed another triple vodka and waited for the residual nausea to pass. "I mean, he's by far the worst president the United States has ever known and he's done more to set this nation back and embarrass us and create more terrorism and repress science and women and love and hope for all mankind everywhere. But oh my God, he's still no Dick Cheney. That guy makes baby unicorns bleed."
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