Monday, February 13, 2006
Cheney Shoots Man While Quail Hunting
--Vice President Heard Man Say He Was There "To Help Beat The Bushes"
--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia invites fellow justice David Souter to replace him on next hunting trip with Cheney
--Vice President's press office is silent; Cheney tells it to please be vewy, vewy, quiet--he's hunting Democwats.
The reticence of the Bush Administration on the details of the shooting ruffled feathers among the press corps and Democratic leaders. "We may have given the Bush Administration something of a free ride on getting into Iraq, the deficit, Medicare, and the like," one wire service's Washington bureau chief said, "but this hunting accident thing is where the buckshot stops. Tom Paine, I think, would be proud today."
Senate Democratic leaders seized on the incident as emblematic of all that is wrong with the Bush Administration, and as a turning point in their six-year struggle to turn public opinion, causing the Senate Majority Leader, Dr. William Frist, to wonder aloud if he needed to adjust their medication.
--Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia invites fellow justice David Souter to replace him on next hunting trip with Cheney
--Vice President's press office is silent; Cheney tells it to please be vewy, vewy, quiet--he's hunting Democwats.
The reticence of the Bush Administration on the details of the shooting ruffled feathers among the press corps and Democratic leaders. "We may have given the Bush Administration something of a free ride on getting into Iraq, the deficit, Medicare, and the like," one wire service's Washington bureau chief said, "but this hunting accident thing is where the buckshot stops. Tom Paine, I think, would be proud today."
Senate Democratic leaders seized on the incident as emblematic of all that is wrong with the Bush Administration, and as a turning point in their six-year struggle to turn public opinion, causing the Senate Majority Leader, Dr. William Frist, to wonder aloud if he needed to adjust their medication.
