July 20th, 2007
01:25 PM ET
11 years ago
Cheney to become president...briefly
Vice President Dick Cheney.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - President Bush will undergo a routine colonoscopy Saturday, and will transfer power to Vice President Dick Cheney during the procedure, expected to take about two and a half hours, the chief White House spokesman said.
Tony Snow said Friday that the procedure, during which a doctor looks for any signs of cancer, will be carried out at Camp David, Maryland, and the president will be placed under anesthesia.
Bush's last colonoscopy was in June 2002, and no abnormalities were found, Snow said.
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Are they looking for an Iraq exit strategy or has Karl Rove gone missing?
A scarey scenario!
The only person worse for President is Cheney.
Why do we have to reveal this info to the enemy?
What a wonderful time for them to attack.
One word: YIKES!
The comments above show the ignorance of young liberals.
Hasn't he been the defacto President all along?
too bad he isn't allergic to anesthesia, then he can know how he makes the rest of us feel
LORD.....please watch my country during Cheney's watch
I'm taking a History of the American Presidents class at University now. From what I remember, Cheney can technically not relinquish power back to George Bush, if he so chooses to.
Perfect timing - everyone will be so busy reading Harry Potter that they won't notice a coup.
Maybe the doctors will actually find some "weapons of mass destruction", since the whole WMD farce was essentially pulled from Bush's...
I was wondering how the show '24' was going to make it's comeback next season... 🙂
They are looking for that pain in his butt. I bet they find the Constitution.
What difference does a formal handover of power make? Cheney has been running the show since day one while Bush has been nothing more than a puppet. This changes nothing.
Well, at least there is hope that they will FINALLY find the weapons of mass destruction...
Oh what fun.... Haliburton gets to run things for a couple of hours!!
You know what they're going to find up there, don't you?
Bush's head and Cheney's hand.
Shrub has got to be sweating.
He grew up in an organized crime family and he's got to know that he's become expendable.
In a strange way, there is poetry in this story.
Saturday headline: Bush briefly transfers Presidential power to Cheney.
Sunday headline: The U.S. starts bombing Tehran.
Oh, God help us all ... even two minutes is too much!!!
I bet he asks for another deferment at the last second.
Pretty remarkable fora guy who isn't a part of the Executive branch.
Oh what fun!! Haliburton gets to run things for a couple of hours!!
Please, someone lock up the hunting guns.
Wow! If we can get Dick's ticker turned off for awhile then Nancy Pelosi takes over and she'll have time to order the troops home and sign the children's health care bill. Neat!
GUT FEELING....HE WILL PARDON HIMSELF AND ISSUE SOME BLANK PARDONS FOR FUTURE