Cheney is President!

At this very moment, Dick Cheney is the President of the United States of America!

Sound a little crazy? It isn’t. For only the third time in modern history, the Vice President has assumed presidential powers as President Bush invoked the Constitution’s presidential disability clause. will have a colonoscopy Saturday and temporarily hand Presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney, the White House said. Press secretary Tony Snow told reporters Friday that Bush will have a colonoscopy procedure looking for signs of cancer at his Camp David, Md., mountaintop retreat. In transferring power while under anesthesia, Bush is electing to implement Section 3 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, making Cheney acting president until Bush indicates he is prepared to reassume his authority.

President Reagan was the first to invoke the Constitution’s 25th Amendment since its adoption in 1967 as a means of dealing with presidential disability and succession, and President Bush invoked it in 2002 for a colonoscopy where he was sedated for a 1/2 hour.

Isn’t the working of our constitution really cool?