Thread: Bush Has 5 Polyps Removed

Bush Has 5 Polyps Removed in Colon Cancer Test

Doctors found and removed five small polyps from President Bush’s colon during a cancer screening yesterday that forced him to relinquish his presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for two hours and five minutes.

Scott M. Stanzel, a White House spokesman, said the polyps were not deemed worrisome on visual inspection by a team of doctors from the National Naval Medical Center, who performed the procedure in Camp David, Md. In a statement released late yesterday morning, Mr. Stanzel said the polyps would be sent to the Naval Medical Center for testing.

Mr. Stanzel said there would be a 48- to 72-hour wait for the results. He described the polyps as less than a centimeter in diameter each.

The use of a sedative during the colonoscopy necessitated the transfer of power to Mr. Cheney.

President Bush’s physician, Dr. Richard Tubb, oversaw the exam.

It was the second cancer screening of Mr. Bush’s presidency. During the first, in 2002, Mr. Bush also transferred his presidential powers to Mr. Cheney.

That year, doctors found no polyps. But doctors did find and remove benign polyps from Mr. Bush’s colon during exams in 1998 and 1999, when he was the governor of Texas.

The polyps were of a type called adenomatous, which arise out of glandular tissue. In such cases, doctors recommend follow-up examinations every few years to search for new polyps and to check for smaller polyps that may have escaped notice in earlier colonoscopies.

Mr. Stanzel said the temporary transfer of Mr. Bush’s powers to Mr. Cheney began at 7:16 a.m. The procedure began shortly thereafter and concluded at 7:44 a.m. The president resumed power at 9:21 a.m.

Before the screening, Mr. Bush sent a letter to the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, and the president pro tem of the Senate, Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, in which he invoked Section 3 of the 25th Amendment of the Constitution in transferring power to Mr. Cheney. [size=150][b]Afterward, he sent another letter declaring, “I am presently able to resume the discharge of the constitutional powers and duties of the office of the president of the United States.â€

Oh no.....I hope they didn't further damage his brain while they were in there

I didn't know brain tumors are now referred to as pollups!

Those polyps were probably just friendly polyps serving some important need in Bush's colon. It is so unfair for him to assume they may be cancerous and have them removed like that.

George Bush should have told the doctors that the polyps, that were not supposed to be there, should be allowed to stay.

They were only Guest Polyps or Undocumented Polyps.

Using his logic, they should have been given an ID and allowed to stay instead of being removed.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Those polyps were probably just friendly polyps serving some important need in Bush's colon. It is so unfair for him to assume they may be cancerous and have them removed like that.

George Bush should have told the doctors that the polyps, that were not supposed to be there, should be allowed to stay.

They were only Guest Polyps or Undocumented Polyps.

Using his logic, they should have been given an ID and allowed to stay instead of being removed.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Those polyps were probably just friendly polyps serving some important need in Bush's colon. It is so unfair for him to assume they may be cancerous and have them removed like that.

George Bush should have told the doctors that the polyps, that were not supposed to be there, should be allowed to stay.

They were only Guest Polyps or Undocumented Polyps.

Using his logic, they should have been given an ID and allowed to stay instead of being removed.

W

[quote] Afterward, he sent another letter declaring, “I am presently able to resume the discharge of the constitutional powers and duties of the office of the president of the United States.â€

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Those polyps were probably just friendly polyps serving some important need in Bush's colon. It is so unfair for him to assume they may be cancerous and have them removed like that.

George Bush should have told the doctors that the polyps, that were not supposed to be there, should be allowed to stay.

They were only Guest Polyps or Undocumented Polyps.

Using his logic, they should have been given an ID and allowed to stay instead of being removed.

W

Coffee spraying all over my keyboard over here William!!!!

Too funny.....that really started my day off on a good note!!!!

We need to put that out there like your "political herpes" remark. Fax it to all our reps. Washington would be laughing so hard they'd hear it in.....welll.....Mexico!!!

Just doing those jobs his colon wouldn't.

Were they doing jobs that his colon wouldn't or was it the southern invaders replacing jobs that brain cells didn't want?