We have/had a new president today!
 

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

So, do they dock his pay two hours? :D

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.

Meet the old boss, same as the old boss...

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 (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 Much as Bush has done with several subpoenas Clinton said he would not respond to the subpoena but if it were withdrawn he would testify willingly under negotiated terms (one day only, at the White House instead of before the grand jury). The subpoena was withdrawn so the question was never settled.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.

It was a joke, Alex.

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.

Bike ride? After a colonoscopy? Not that I have a clue, but it seem like a bike ride isn't something I'd choose.

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.

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"?

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.

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...

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.

Or strung out in an AC/DC alley.

They named an alley after the band??

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.

They named an alley after an outlet?

:rolleyes:

No silly, as RStar referenced, the alley is named after the band!

Then what was the outlet named after?

A rhyming scheme.

Ain't that the truth!

And here I thought it was a reference to a song in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express ;)

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!)

I just love Mark Morford!