Dick Cheney, Before He Dicks Us All
The White House now considers the whole shooting accident a closed case. Nothing to see here folks, let’s move it along.
Well not so fast. That the shooting was an accident, I’m willing to buy. But that doesn’t answer the question of why it took so long to report this to police and the media, and why when it was finally reported to media, it didn’t come from the Vice President himself or at least his office. He is after all the second highest elected official in these here United States.
Could it be ole Dead-Eye Dick was shooting off more than his shotgun down there in Texas? And why wasn’t Mrs. Cheney along for the trip? Others are also speculating that the delay was so that certain witnesses of the female persuasion could be whisked away before anyone caught wind.
Now, if I do recall, when a certain former President William Jefferson Clinton had a little dalliance of his own with an intern, the Grand Old Party of hypocrites, liars, thieves, racists, sexists, homophobes and millionaire businessmen damn near wanted to impeach him for the offense. Seems like kids play compared to buckshot in the face and a chickie-poo on the side, eh?
Oh, how these bastards do irk me.
Posted by bernie at February 17, 2006 1:10 PMI'm more impressed that the guy who was shot is now apologizing for causing trouble.
Is this the republican precedent?
Minorities should start apologizing for "causing trouble."
"I'm sorry for being black and poor and caught in Katrina."
"I'm sorry for causing trouble because you want to take away my rights."
"I was standing in line of your bullet and so it hit me."
Posted by: Keguro at February 17, 2006 1:46 PMGood post. Perhaps Lynn Cheney doesn't like hunting so she didn't go. And they didn't damn near impeach Clinton, they did impeach him. But you're right, maybe there should be some kind of grand jury investigation. Yeah its sounds pretty ridiculous to call in a grand jury for an accident. But it was also ridiculous to call in a grand jury for a blowjob too.
Posted by: blbrown at February 17, 2006 4:16 PMWell David Letterman has been coming for the Bush Administration HARD! Every night he has some crack at them and he has been having a field day with this Cheney thing. Anyhow, I wasn't sure if this was just letterman joking or if there was some fact to this, but he was saying that Cheney admitted to having "one" beer shortly before the incident happened. Could it be that he had been drinking and was a bit tipsy when the incident happened, so he didn't want to have to deal with the press etc because of it? Like I said, I'm not sure if there's any truth to what Letterman was saying. Have you heard anything like this?
Posted by: Absolutelee at February 17, 2006 4:46 PM