Does this give you a reason to like Cheney?

[Gemini Cricket]

But what's this? Could Whittington and/or the veep have been drunk?

According to the report, which appeared briefly Tuesday on MSNBC, Armstrong peddled the line that she did not believe that alcohol played a part in the shooting accident. But, she admitted, "There may be a beer or two in there, but remember not everyone in the party was shooting."

The MSNBC story, which appeared only briefly before the website was scrubbed for reasons not yet explained, has been kept alive by the able web investigators at TheRawStory and other progressive blogs. And so it should be, as the prospect that alcohol may have been involved in the Texas incident takes the story in a whole new direction.

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[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

The sad part is that, it doen't matter what the party affiliation is, the corruption is previlent throughout. I think we get bogged down in who is better or, rather, who is more corrupt when, really does it matter. There really shouldn't be sizable corruption at all.

This is the point I was going to make, but NA beat me to it. Why does the response from either side end up at "oh yeah? well your guy was worse!" How is that helpful? It's no wonder we have a political culture of "the lesser of two evils."

[Gemini Cricket]

This just in to GCNN :

Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday accepted full blame for shooting a fellow hunter and defended his decision to not publicly disclose the accident until the following day. He called it "one of the worst days of my life."

"I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry," Cheney told Fox News Channel in his first public comments since the shooting Saturday in south Texas.

Cheney described seeing 78-year-old Harry Whittington fall to the ground after he pulled the trigger while aiming at a covey of quail.

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[Not Afraid]

There you go! That's the spin. "I was so horrified by what happened I just couldn't bring myself to talk about it publicly."

[Gemini Cricket]

"You can talk about all of the other conditions that exist at the time but that's the bottom line and — it was not Harry's fault," he said. "You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend."

Yes, Dick. You are totally right.

[innerSpaceman]

I don't know if you can call it being a man about it if you must be forced by public outrage to be a man about it.




(and yeah, there's not a whole lot that Cheney could ever do in his lifetime to satisfy me. but apologizing before the vast media and public outcry about the lack of an apology might have had a chance)

[Nephythys]

For one cold bitch- she has approval ratings in the 80's

Not bad for a cold bitch - puh-lease.

[MickeyLumbo]

he had a beer at lunch.

i blame the beer company.

[Gemini Cricket]

I woke up this morning to my alarm clock that plays the radio. The song that was playing was 'Cheney's Got a Gun' to the tune of Aerosmith's 'Janie's Got a Gun'. The person singing sounded a lot like Tyler. Funny, funny stuff.
I'm sure it's on the internet somewhere.

[scaeagles]

Well done song parodies are great regardless of who they are making fun of. I heard it and thought it was pretty funny.