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

So, do they dock his pay two hours?

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.

Alex · 07-21-2007, 09:22 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.

CoasterMatt · 07-21-2007, 09:37 AM

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

JWBear · 07-21-2007, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

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...

Alex · 07-21-2007, 09:57 AM

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 Much as Bush has done with several subpoenas Clinton said he would not respond to the subpoena but if it were withdrawn he would testify willingly under negotiated terms (one day only, at the White House instead of before the grand jury). The subpoena was withdrawn so the question was never settled.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

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.

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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

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Originally Posted by blueerica

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!"

Alex · 07-21-2007, 10:09 AM

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.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	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.
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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	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.
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