Okay, so Cheney will be President for a little while on Saturday while Bush gets a colonoscopy. Big deal - he's already President anyway.

What I love is the use of the term 'surveillance' to describe the procedure:

He last underwent colorectal cancer surveillance on June 29, 2002.

"As reported at the time and in subsequent physical exams, absent any symptoms, the president's doctor recommended repeat surveillance in approximately five years," Snow said. "The president has had no symptoms."

See? The President is subject to invasive surveillance, too, just like everyone else in the country since he took office. He gets a crack medical team from Bethesda (pun definitely intentional), and we get AT&T. But it's the same thing.

It'll be interesting to see if they find that conditions have improved since his last colonoscopy in 2002. That's when they discovered the story of Saddam Hussein attempting to purchase uranium in Niger. Obviously, they pulled it right out of there when they found it. And there've been other "removals" as well.

Here's to President Bush's continuing colorectal health.

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