Okay one more. But it's from Molly Ivins, so it's good:
Dick-Cheney-shooting-Harry-Whittington is fraught, as they say, with irony. It's not as though the ground in Texas is littered with liberal Republicans. I think the vice president winged the only one we've got.
Other people are covering this in much more depth and intelligence than can be found round here, especially the fine folks at firedoglake.
But I want to reiterate something I posted yesterday.
Apparently, Cheney is in the habit of going to pen farms for hunting. According to Nedra Pickler, this qualifies as an experienced hunter. As I said, to me it's just killing things for blood sport. It reminds me of the Monty Python Upper Class Twit contest, where at one point these overbred morons have to shoot a rabbit with a shotgun. A Dead Rabbit. That's tied down. at 3 feet. And at least one twit is killed by friendly fire.
Apparently a couple of years ago, Deadeye Dick (and don't you think that one's going to stick?) participated in a “hunt” at a game farm where 500 quail were released, and the party killed about 450 of them.
That's not hunting, that's a slaughter. I can't imagine a real hunter thinking it's anything but; that's a game for guys who like to run over cats.
Oh, and it appears that in what has now became a Tradition, if not a Bush Hallmark: the administration is handling this issue in just EXACTLY the wrong way, exacerbating the long run that the media stalwarts appear poised for.
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