A few random observations as we await Cheney going on Dr. Phil to tearfully confess how he likes to booze it up and hunt man.
* To listen to McClellan babbling about the time it took for details to come in, you would think a rider had galloped out of the Texas brush immediately after the shooting, changing horses all along the route to DC.
* The rationale many journalists are giving for Cheney's behavior, such as this from the NY Times -"Mr. Cheney plays by rules of his own making. It is the freedom that only a political figure who knows he is in his last job -- he often says he will never run again -- can get away with."
Uhh...what? Many many politicians are in their last jobs. What "rules of his own making" and freedoms can these be? Should we now expect retiring Senator's to arm themselves to the teeth and stalk the halls of the Russell Building?
*Hats off to a pair of fetid and festering whores...Alan K. Simpson & Mary Matalin.
Ol' plain-speaking Al has been on every media outlet above seven watts extolling the virtues of Dick Cheney. A sample quote - "When it's all through after a few days, people are going to laugh at the media for their overreaction," Mr. Simpson said in an interview from his home in Wyoming. "This is a hunting accident, created by the victim. Dick Cheney didn't do anything. He's a master hunter."
"Created by the victim"...nice Al. Also saw him babbling about how careful Cheney is and how he's seen him "draw down" when a car drove into his line of fire. Apparently, someone who wasn't such a skillful "master hunter" would've panicked, shot out the tires, then killed everyone inside.
Alan Simpson, a folksy pile of shit.
Then there's the rancid sack of excrement that is Mary Matalin. Credited with helping Dick craft his response to the shooting, and a fine job it is too. Mary doubts there will be any repercussions. This from the Washington Post - Mary Matalin, a Cheney adviser who has helped him deal with the shooting fallout, rejected suggestions that the White House's handling of the incident might result in political damage. "We have a history replete with evidence to the contrary," she said. "Every time we've had predictions of monumental liability, it never occurred."
Yes, on any issue, Cheney has metaphorically fired thousands of pellets of lies into the face and body of our Republic. He has lodged many near the heart. Whether we recover is still in doubt.
* Finally and apropos of nothing, as you watch this all unfold, remember the song that played at the "04 Convention as balloons dropped and Bush & Cheney waved - "Put A Little Love In Your Heart".
The GOP is capable of anything.