for the week ending 7/21/07:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President George W. Bush had five polyps removed during a routine colon cancer test on Saturday, but his doctors described them as small and apparently not worrisome, the White House said.
. . .
The president “was in very good spirits and in good humor and looks forward to returning to his activities.”
Bush was planning to take a bicycle ride later on Saturday afternoon after participating in briefings with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and eating lunch with them, Stanzel said.
More here.
Doctors also report finding the following items during the routine procedure:
1. The missing WMDs
2. Senator Joe Lieberman (I-ME)
3. A bootlegged copy of Hooked on Phonics™
4. Harriet Miers’ curriculum vitae
5. A pair of Presidential Seal bicycle socks
and
6. The unfinished manuscript for Jenna Bush’s sequel: “Pablo’s Story: My Life as the Governor’s Mule”
Feel free to add your own. Seriously, I recommend that if you are over 50 or have a family history of colorectal cancer, please get the colonoscopy, if you can. It’s not a big deal, and it can save your life.
So anyway, I get back from a glorious and altogether way too short vacation in paradise and find that Hillary’s bosom, Bush’s bottom, and David Vitter’s Huggies are the big topics of conversation? I’m booking my flight back to Australia. (Not that Johnny “Poodletwo” Howard is any different…)
—
Dan at A Blog Named Sue says what we were all thinking anyway.
TBogg already has the spoilers for the Religious Right’s answer to Harry Potter.
Attaturk gets his hands on Jonah Goldberg’s galleys. Wait, that didn’t come out right…
Meanwhile, General J.C. Christian reveals more of the secrets extracted from Khaled Abdul-Fattah Dawoud Mahmoud al-Mashhadan. Who knew he was such a hottie?!
Speaking of hotties, Norbizness pays tribute to the journeymen character actors, toiling away in their physical mediocrity.
Tom Burka at Opinions You Should Have reviews Harriet Miers’ testimony before the Judiciary Committee.
Maru the Crankpot at WTF Is It Now?? takes note of Senator John Kerry’s poetic flair.
No More Mister Nice Blog’s Steve M. has your tips for the day.
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Ding Dong.
zed
ding dong dang you ls! :)
A bicycle ride hours after a colonoscopy. Slightly masochistic, no? Ouch!
LS @ 4
Qui en mas macho?
LS @ 4
And think how unconfortable it was for Lieberman !
Welcome back!
Your dreams were your ticket out…
Anybody wonder why Laura was in Texas during the colonoscopy? Anybody wonder why they performed it at Camp David??
Well, it was Laura’s mother’s birthday….butt…butt…why schedule the procedure on your mother-in-law’s birthday – why not wait a couple of days?
1 1 = 5
Ms. tiger -
You’re home, you’re home! Your teeth have been much missed. [smooch]
That reminds me, I need to scrub the toilets.
dave @ 7
From welcome back colon; The Lieberman years?
707, watertiger! Glad to have you back.
FWIW, normally mild-mannered & soft-spoken Mr. Sue reacted to the news of Shrub’s procedure with a deliciously wicked wish for ill health. Not that any of us really want that to happen (/snark), but hearing it from him raised my eyebrows!
Lahoma remarks on the pix above of the prez: “No wonder Laura sleeps in a hotel.”
Watertiger! Howzit?
dakine and everyone,
i’m not exactly thrilled to be back in the States. but here i am.
trip was truly wonderful. I could use another . . . six months, or so.
The president “was in very good spirits and in good humor and looks forward to returning to his activities.”
“…looks forward to returning to his activities”
Trouble is, most of the nation and the world does not.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 16
shouldn’t that be “returning to his duties?” what are we, chopped liver?
[department of self-answering questions, line one]
Perhaps Condi has something to do with the President’s very recent “internal problems”.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 18
Could we discuss this later, OKK? Some of us out here are eating….
From the intelligence the hottie terrorist according to the General:
Nothing strikes fear in our hearts more than the knowledge that prostitutes dress your senators in diapers.
Welcome back, Watertiger!
Good to have you back watertiger!
Loo Hoo. @ 20
Then said ladies of the evening take pictures. Then they email them to their favorite agents of foreign powers. Then said agents of foreign powers blackmail said Senator for all sorts of useful information. In the good old days of the Cold War, this was called “being a security risk”. Many men died and much prolonging of said Cold War happened from such “risks”.
The British legalized homosexuality in both government and the military to put an end to that sort of thing.
Now, fortunately, it’s only good for selling magazines and give us bloggers the giggles.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 18
Those were polyps, not head lice…
JEP @ 24
Has there been any word as to whether any were cancerous?
BTW, what is this “laura sleeping in hotel rooms” stuff? Is there any proof or is this just projection/wishful thinking?
Video at Think Progress from Meet the Press:
In Stephen Hayes’s upcoming biography on Dick Cheney, he writes that the current Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell appears to side with “those who believe that the administration manipulated intelligence on Iraq for political purposes before the 2003 invasion.”
Also found in the Bush butt:
The Preznit’s brain and Dick Cheney’s controlling device.
OT: Maureen Dowd column is worth the read.
althespook @ 25
I heard on Conservative News Network that doctors were not concerned.
Doctors also report finding a “Bright Idea” light bulb.
althespook @ 25
There have been gossip column reports that Laura has moved into the Adams-Hay hotel for a few months now…
for anyone who thinks our snark is tasteless and offensive, remember “kick their soft teeth down their whiney throats,”
Always keep in mind, those of us who get graphic sometimes say what we say for humor, and not necessarily to demean the subjects of our humor.
But “if the shoe fits”, well golly gee, wear it.
..aren’t we all such naughty little bloggers…
…back up from downstairs…
althespook @ 25
The polyps are being biopsied.
The Laura staying at the Mayflower because W is drinking originated at The Globe, I think, and then Wayne Madsen picked it up and spread the rumors far and wide. Interestingly, it was the Globe that revealed Cathy Lee Gifford’s husband’s tryst..
Who knows.
“TBogg already has the spoilers for the Religious Right’s answer to Harry Potter.”
Most fundies I know let their kids read CS Lewis’ and Madeleine L’Engle’s books, notwithstanding that both of these Christian authors were/are mainline Protestants who write about tolerance, compassion, peace and other liberal values…. I guess they don’t read for comprehension.
I plan on distancing myself from the far left fringe 70% of America.
-GSD
dakine01 @ 31
I want a money shot. I want affidavits. I want video. Then perhaps I’ll believe it.
althespook @ 37
One of the gossipers on E! online has been trying to get pics for quite some time
Loo Hoo. @ 26
I wonder if Hayes’ book will be as well received as the Fred Barnes fluffer piece claiming Bush was a “rebel”. I think that outsold Darth Cheneyettes’ ‘Queer and Self-Loathing in DC’ by 7 copies.
-GSD
I wish I could credit the source, but I have to share this (if you know whose this is, I would love to acknowledge):
Probably benign polyps were removed yesterday from a certainly malignant president during a routine colonoscopy. This left the team of physicians an ethical dilemma: which to save.
althespook @ 37
What else did they find?
Well, way up inside there, they found Bush’s head.
We knew it was there all along, didn’t we?
LS @ 34
Hmmmm. Bush perhaps is drinking alcohol again….not good.
tbsa @ 28
From this article:
John Edwards and Barack Obama often seem more delicate and concerned with looking pretty than Hillary does. Though the tallest candidate usually has the advantage, Hillary has easily dominated the debates without even wearing towering heels.
When she wrote to Bob Gates asking about the Pentagon’s plans to get out of Iraq, it took eight weeks for an under secretary, Eric Edelman, to send a scalding reply, suggesting that she was abetting enemy propaganda. But Mrs. Clinton hit back with a tart letter to Secretary Gates on Friday and scored something of a victory, since he issued a statement that did not back up his own creep.
I think the Mayflower hotel rumor may have started, because Laura was to be at some kind of event at the Mayflower, and they had a room reserved for her (for example, to change clothes or put on make-up). Then some reporter got confirmation that she was registered somehow…
JEP @ 24
Maybe they were LIEberman’s head lice.
welcome back watertiger, even though the vacation/back transition isn’t so pleasant……..you were missed.
eureka and al the spook, left epu’d messages at 116 and 118 respectively…….last thread……..
LS @ 45
The rumor I read had her at the Adams-Hay/Hays-Adam or whatever the name is.
Watertiger’s back!
dakine01 @ 38
Seems to me the White House is plenty big enough for them to live separate lives…
Jane!
oh, and you asked what else was found during the bush exploration?
osama bin laden.
dakine01 @ 48
It could be several hotels in DC, but I think the reason for the room is just for convenience reasons. She does give presentations, etc., and this may have started back when they were in campaign mode. JMHO
Loo Hoo. @ 50
The rumors had him seriously drinking again which would be a good reason for her to bail.
Follow up to my comment @ 40 It actually went like this:
At 11:03 AM, Wee Mousie said…
I have a medical question.
Once they have removed the possibly benign polyps from the unquestionably malignant president, how do the doctors know which to discard?
http://houserisingsons.blogspo…..fraid.html
and his decoder ring that he swallowed so that congress couldn’t get it…….
whack @ 27
And the vice pres. is delighted that they found the Rolex he’s been missing for a while now: “Funny -Musta checked there a thousand times.”
Most all the popular witchcraft imagery was spawned by interpretations of biblical verses, and even share some of the root ceremonies.
Christian children should be willing and be allowed to to read anything they find a curiosity towards. That curiosity alone should be the determining factor in their choices.
Knowing about the traditions and history of “other” religions or philosophies shouldn’t be an impedement to anyone’s spiritual journey.
If not for what I learned on my own, studying Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroaster, Islam, and other “options” in my earlier years, I might not be a Christian today.
All those “other” influences helped me find my own faith, and gave me a very broad and comprehensive understanding of and tolerance towards other perceptions.
As a kid, I spent my time in the adult library, in the “mythology” section, and (contrary to the librarian’s insistence that I was just there looking at the “classical artwork,”) the whole time I was really absorbing that classical world like a sponge.
It only reinforced my belief in the power of everyday people, to rise above our common simplicity, and do things much greater than our mortal frames might imagine.
Which goes quite well with the Christian faith I chose to embrace.
Loo Hoo. @ 44
The article is entitled, I volunteer to write president’s confessions.
“I’m sorry I keep pretending Iraq will get better if we stay longer. It wasn’t very nice of me to push the surge when I knew it couldn’t work. I just wanted to dump thee defeat on my successor. I wish Hillary the best of luck.”
Wonkette on Laura:
http://wonkette.com/politics/c…..178417.php
LS @ 45
That sounds more like it. Remember, this is the Wah on Terrah, and that means the First Lady is a serious High Value Target to any number of al idiotia wannabees. If she were really there, the secret service presence should be fairly detectable.
And one of the reasons that George may have gone to the medical proctologists (will…not..make…witticism….here…must…control self….) is that Laura tore him a new one about the folly of abstinence ed only in fighting aids in africa. The docs probably just sewed it up again…
And if you read that link and say “what? this is meek and mild? in our progressive terms of course it is, but in the neanderthal patriarchial world of Laura and her fellow Rethugs, it was Pearl Harbor….)
GSD @ 36
I hope a whole lot of R’s have that attitude in about a year…
did you know that:
he’s referring to his censure resolutions… but if you have any comments for him, you can leave them here.
dmac @ 47
oops, closed window. will go back and look ASAP….
althespook @ 61
I do question, however, why she would not be at the same location as her husband the day of the procedure. Her mother’s birthday excuse, does not ring true to me. They could have scheduled it before or after. I actually suspect it was a follow-up to his stomach problems during the G8 meetings.
Jane Hamsher @ 49
Hello Jane and Welcome Back WaterTiger!
GSD @ 39
Is that the same stephen Hayes who wrote The Connection—How al Qaeda’s Collaboration with Saddam Hussein Has Endangered America, that was nothing more than a reprint of the Feith memo? McConnell needs to be criticized, but by someone with cred.
LS @ 65
Those “stomach problems” may be related to the near-beer he was photographed consuming at G8. His immediate sickness has been interpreted by some as a reaction to anti-alcohol-abuse medications. And as noted in the link above and several others, there is small signs that Mr. Bush is drinking alcohol again. So the question is, are any or all of these things connected? We already had one alcohol-abusing President undergoing Impeachment problems, we don’t need another one…
althespook @ 68
Maybe so. Maybe it is why they always push the W is a health and fitness nut, e.g., the bicycling hours after the procedure. I agree with LooHoo though that the WH is plenty big enough for both Laura and W, if there was a problem.
double-you-tee !!!
Back in the USA! Welcome home, and thanks for all the links.
Polyp wants a cracker.
5 polypticians were found…
selise @ 63
Thanks. Here’s the message I left.
Censure does 2 really bad things:
1. Gives the Rs a cheap out.
2. Takes precious time away from what you should be doing–impeach.
The White House may have many bedrooms, but W’s drunken pursuit of her through them, or use of several for the pleasure of others, may force her to leave. It doesn’t really matter how big the house is: if you’re sharing it with an intoxicated maniac you really can’t get away.
I wonder if there is a difference if the doctors found 5 1/2 inch polyps together (grapelike growth), or 5 1/2 polyps in various places in the colon.
TeddySanFran @ 74
You’ve got a point there…consider Gannon visits.
Polyp goes the weasel.
-GSD
LS @ 72
Let’s see, there’s Cheney, Lieberman, McConnell, Boehner…
WT – my “welcome back” from earlier this week still stands.
the leaders of China and Japan both underwent similar procedures, leading to great competetive speculation among their respective populaces. It launched the Polyp in Asian Wars.
punaise @ 80
oh. god
punaise @ 80
You win. You absolutely win. That’s it. Uncle.
Jane Hamsher @ 49
and with piles of laundry to do. AAACK!
punaise @ 80
Wiki Link. You thought he was making it up, didn’t you?
LMAO!! all the puns are hi-larious
Laura Doty @ 82
tee hee…
althespook @ 84
wikiquote
punaise @ 86
pun, old spartan, you are just athens for it…
My husband was in agony after having one polyph removed! If Bush had 5 removed, he must have a high dose of Oxy in his bloodstream! No wonder he’s cheerful! But if it were anyone else I’d advise against bike-riding. But since it’s bush, GO for it!
I think it’s disgusting that the President would discuss this proceedure. How will I explain this to my children? I thought this President had morals! The FCC should fine every news channel that discusses this. It’s humiliating for America to think of our President with a stick in his ass. And it’s disgusting that he had those dingleberries in there too.
Why couldn’t the President just keep this secret like he does with everything else? Why is it he felt he had to announce to the world the disgustingness in his ass and keep secret the disgustingness of his policies?
Just read Rich’s column-put all the R sleaze in one place, and cleverly too. Several LOLs.
EPU cleanup:
waccamaw from 111: my blushes. see my post @123 last thread.
dmac from 118: thanks much, see my @124 last thread.
GeorgeSimian @ 90
;~O
Oklahoma kiddo @ 13
Tell Lahoma I heartily agree with her.;)
Watertiger,
Thanks for the review!
Where in “paradise” were you?
Bob in
HI WIAZOklahoma kiddo @ 18
Can we say JEFF GANNONS gonna be back?
punaise @ 86
Pun, it’s a long reach, but you can really catch ‘em.
Well….I’m not seeing too much of a wierd nature on this surgical event.
1. Camp David: CD has had full medical facilities, including small surgery room, for decades. It only makes sense, if any president is at the mountain retreat, to have full medical capability for heart attack, stroke, accidental concussion, etc etc
2. Scheduling:
a) it was done on a week-end so as to allow the President to be able to put in a full work-week uninterrupted
b) the mother-in-law stuff: hate to burst some of you gal’s bubbles, but for many men, about the LAST thing they want to do is socialize with the m-in-law. M-in-laws are, for many men, pretty far down on the totem-pole priority list.
Ghostman
punaise @ 80
Your such a classicyst…
Ed*ard Teller @ 99
WHOOOO!
bobschacht @ 95
Bob, I was sailing with my sister and her friends in New Caledonia.
bring out the violins:
punaise at 80 says sooooo smooothly-”the leaders of China and Japan both underwent similar procedures, leading to great competetive speculation among their respective populaces. It launched the Polyp in Asian Wars.”
was ‘greek’ to me, until i read laura at 82, then went back and read it again……….you are a wonder to behold………
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/…..refer=usfi
censuring the president is back…
Michael Moore bought some ad space in the most unlikely place….
snip
Hi, My name is Pat! I am 11 years old and I have Leukemia. Can you please help me save the lives of people who need a bone marrow transplant?
Pat has Leukemia and is almost done with his first year of intense chemotherapy. He’s selling ad space on his head for $3,000…..
Ed*ard Teller @ 99
Rhett, Oracle-y speaking of course.
punaise @ 71
Nope. Polyp wants a pretzel.
punaise @ 106
No, thyself.
Laura Doty @ 97
I never made a play like that in my undistinguished Little League career…
barbara @ 107
Polyp wants to live in a different colon. Can you blame it?
punaise can work his magic without ascystance.
meh. i’m still jetlagged. ;-)
punaise @ 109
Perhaps, but your puns are positively Bush League.
Ed*ard Teller @ 99
Classycysts will never be found in GWB’s colon. After all, they’re “classy”. And that’s a low rent district if ever there was one….
My observation is that sons/mother in laws get along great. It’s Daughter In Laws/Mothers who dont. My Mom-I-L detests me! My Mother adored my husband.
dmac – full disclosure: egregious got it started yesterday:
LS @ 72
But the reports said they weren’t malignant, so how could this be?
punaise @ 115
correction:
polyp
ounnesianThe results of honed homophonphilia
eCAHNomics @ 117
ur.. or Polypunaisean wars
Pelosi, unclear on the concept:
Impeachment is the only way to end the “war”. Does she not see this?
The enema of the state.
Welcome home watertiger!
I hope they put those polyps in the Bush library. They’ll need to put something in there. Everything else is classified.
insert unkind and insensitive observation about Crohn’s Disease here.
Does Bush’s HMO pay for his surgery? Or is it just paid directly from the WH petty cash drawer?
They also found Cheney’s watch.
Ed*ard Teller @ 116
I don’t see how they would have know so quickly that they were not malignant – even for a president they can only do a biopsy so fast, i would think. Course there will be someone here who actually knows these things…
Apropos puns, someone at McClatchy had a blast with this headline: Iraq explodes…
TeddySanFran @ 120
yup ~ i agree, impeachment is THE ONLY way to end the occupation. this is pretty frustrating, huh.
i see so much discussion of votes, when the process of investigating impeachment is the way to move this playing field quickly and change the vote numbers.
LS @ 4
it must have wrecked hum?
pet wrecker @ 129
Gahhhh! Don’t you start……I swear we are all smirking seven year olds under our patina of age, wisdom and maturity…myself included, of course…
Fern @ 126
Actually, they are being biopsied. There are no results yet.
althespook @ 130
;~O benign year olds
On hold with Sam Seder’s show. How is everyone this evening?
FYI, Book Salon is upstairs
LS @ 131
okay, time for the EmmDees on the lake to weigh in here. fortunately colon cancer does not run in our family and all our scans have been fine (and we have them at twice the suggested rate because we don’t trust mother nature.) So I know next to nada about it and don’t have time for a research project right now.
So:
1) IF any of the polyps are malignant, can they spread? Can they have already spread? In this case, would chimpy have to take chemo? Can a chimpy on chemo be preznit of the newnited snakes? Or, ghod help us, would we have cheney in charge? could chimpy come back to office once the chemo was over?
Talk about opening a can of polyps….
In that picture of Bush, I realized I’ve seen that expression before… on Moe Howard. :)
Christy Hardin Smith @ 133
break a leg!
punnaise at 115 says-”dmac – full disclosure: egregious got it started yesterday:
Breaking…..5 polyps found.
The start of the polyponnesian wars.”
yeah, she’s clever, but you added the sneaky narrative……..yours was sneakier……..slipped right on by me at first…….sneaky…….
punaise @ 137
knock em dead!
Aaron Barlow (The Rise Of The Blogosphere) is upstairs in a shiny new thread.
GeorgeSimian @ 90
I thought this President had morals!
You “thought” this president had morals???
What planet are you from?
Can I just say how incredibly fun it is to be on the radio with Sam Seder, Atrios and Digby at the same time? *g* I just needed to type that…
Coming late to the party, sorry if someone else had this vision, will read the thread in a few but
I would imagine that if the polyps were examined under a microscope they would have the faces of JoeLie, Snarlin’ Arlen, Mitch McConnell, David Brooks, and Pumpkin Head.
Any other suggestions?
Christy Hardin Smith @ 142
I just needed to read that. *G*
Christy,
As always, you’re doing great. Fun to finally hear Digby’s voice.
Thanks, Deb — it was fun. And I’m so glad that all of you get to hear Digby as well these days — she’s the best.
Probably benign polyps were removed yesterday from a certainly malignant president during a routine colonoscopy. This left the team of physicians an ethical dilemma: which to save.
A no-brainer, on two levels!
Twain @ 6
My discomfort is that Lieberman is (I-CT) not (I-ME)… although, Alex, we woulld have accepted Joe Lieberman, (I-Me).
Thanks again to the FDL community for being there with us from seeking a candidate to mutual back patting with Ned Lamont for all we did accomplish. It seems our independent Senator has only moved rightg. Perhaps nothing links Lieberman to Bush more than their common oblivion to reality and public sentiment.
LOL, this old geezer doesn’t need a colonoscopy.
My wife’s doctor pulled on her latex gloves, gave me an evil smirk and … pronounced ‘enlarged by benign’. I’m sure she enjoyed the experience more than I did. Oh well, turnabout, fair play, eh?