Posted on 02/16/2006 2:43:21 PM PST by DallasMike
The Washington Post is reporting that the Sarita, Texas sherriff's department has closed its investigation of Vice President Dick Cheney. The sheriff's report supports Cheney's account of what is, according to the wacko left, the biggest story since Watergate. The Post is also reporting that President Bush is "very satisfied" with Cheney's explanation.
According to a Rasmussen poll, 57% of Americans believe that the hunting accident was "just one of those very embarrassing things that happens to all of us." I find that interesting because, as any listener to Sean Hannity "man on the street" interviews, at least 20% of the American population has no idea who Dick Cheney is. My impression is that the only people bent out of shape by the accident are the hardcore, politically-active left wingers -- maybe 10% of the population at most. Hat tip to RedState.
The Associated Press is saying that Cheney's hunting mishap was a disaster. So who did they consult to determine that this was a disaster? Our old buddy Lanny Davis, liar extraordinaire for the Clinton administration.
"It's a self-created nightmare," said Lanny Davis, a former Clinton White House troubleshooter who now heads a Washington law practice that specializes in legal crisis management. "Cheney took a non-story, or a minor story, and created a huge negative story because of his stubbornness and his arrogance."
Meanwhile, and not so surprisingly, Bob Herbert of the New York Times is calling for Cheney to step down in his latest column "Mr. Vice-President, It's Time To Go." As you will see, Herbert is of the "Cheney is Hitler" school of writing. I do give him points though for using the phrase "the flaming quagmire of Iraq." It's also interesting that ABC has finally 'fessed up and aired a tape of Saddam and his henchmen talking of using WMDs against the United States. Apparently the brilliant Mr. Herbert believes that Cheney forgot to tell Saddam that he didn't have any WMDs. Anyway, here's some spew from Herbert:
There's a reason Dick Cheney is obsessive about shunning the spotlight. His record is not the kind you want to hold up for intense scrutiny.
More than anyone else, he was fanatical about massaging and distorting the intelligence that plunged us into the flaming quagmire of Iraq. He insisted that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was hot on the trail of nukes. He pounded away at the false suggestion that Iraq was somehow linked to Al Qaeda. And he spread the word that the war he wanted so badly would be a cakewalk.
"I really do believe," he told Tim Russert, "that we will be greeted as liberators."
Well, he got his war. And while the nation's brave young soldiers and marines were bouncing around Iraq in shamefully vulnerable Humvees and other vehicles, dodging bullets, bombs and improvised explosive devices, Mr. Cheney (a gold-medal winner in the acquisition of wartime deferments) felt perfectly comfortable packing his fancy 28-gauge Perazzi shotgun and heading off to Texas with a covey of fat cats to shoot quail.
Matters went haywire, of course, when he shot Mr. Whittington instead.
That was the moment when the legend of the tough, hawkish, take-no-prisoners vice president began morphing into the less-than-heroic image of a reckless, scowling incompetent who mistook his buddy for a bird.
Meanwhile, the left wing wackos are working overtime with conspiracy theories at places like firedoglake and Daily Kos. It's great entertainment if you have a few minutes.
No one knows the whereabouts of the alleged bird, allegedly flushed from the field by Cheney's footsteps...
And we are left with the VP, flush with SOME unknowable amount of alcohol, whirling counter-clockwise into the sunset, hurriedly aiming at an alleged, never-identified bird & firing .28-gauge buckshot into the tall grass where his aged friend Harry crouched in search of dead game...
In the beginning, alcohol was not involved.
to be continued....
I can understand the use of a small light gun for quail...
My point, I guess, is that this wasn't much of a shotgun. Can't be much power pushing that birdshot.
If you're going to shot ME with one, a would a .410 or a '28 gauge be my choice of weapons?
I'm still fact-finding for a concise summary of what happened out there in the Texas Tall Grass...
In the beginning, alcohol was not involved.
It was a sleepy-dusty Friday & the Boys (and Pamela) were relaxin' near the tall grass...
Only slightly more than zero alcohol was involved come Saturday...
Suddenly, the covey flushed, the VP whirled counter-clockwise toward the setting sun & fired the Perazzi at an unidentified flying object...
Next thing you know, an aged lawyer, Commissioner of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, and friend of the VP named Harry, devoid of any alcohol, began losing precious, bodily fluids--unreplenished by any alcohol--as he lay prone in the High Chapparal...
A Secret Service Agent, also alcohol-free, moseyed to a telephone & called the Sheriff. Then the Sheriff talked to a Ranch Hand who assured the Sheriff that he & any Deputies he wanted could come the next mornin'...after sunup...which they did. But no one had any alcohol.
After he got out of the Hospital (in Corpus Christi, for cryin' out loud), Harry apologized to his assailant for causing such a fuss & bother to the VP's family...
The Sheriff closed the case & that about wrapped 'er up. Some neighbors, though, say they're hearin' frogs out near the Tall Grass...chirpin'...
'Bud'...
'Wize'...
'Urrrr'...
And people are surprised that Cheney didn't take a seat in the dunking stool after the last 5 years of fiddlin' by the in-bred media?
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