So this is how Bushco implements tort reform. (Harry, the shootee is a lawyer)
Shakespere would be proud.
Posted by TIKI AL at February 12, 2006 03:58 PMMust be all that sharpshooter training Big Time got during his Army stint in Vietnam. Oops! I forgot he was a fucking chickenhawk coward who got his 4th or 5th deferment by fucking his crone douchebag wife so he would be a married man with a child not subject to the draft.
Posted by red_neck_repub at February 12, 2006 04:15 PMBet Scalia dont want to hunt with Darth Cheney no mo, uh uh, no siree!
Posted by SnarkyShark at February 12, 2006 04:22 PMNope. The Texas Department of Wildlife and Parks says it's still his fault.
Posted by nitpicker at February 12, 2006 04:33 PMin retrospect, those 5 deferments were a good thing and probably saved american lives.
Posted by benjoya at February 12, 2006 04:42 PMOur national government.
We're talkin' friggin' dukes of Hazard here!
Posted by at February 12, 2006 05:02 PMin retrospect, those 5 deferments were a good thing and probably saved american lives.
Posted by benjoya at February 12, 2006 04:42 PM
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Yeah, can you imagine, between Bush being drunk and flying jets, and Cheney shooting his fellow troops, we probably saved about 1,000 soldiers by them dodging the draft. And who says these guys don't have foresight?
Posted by sf at February 12, 2006 05:02 PMMr. Whittington is also involved in a bitter dispute with the City of Austin over an eminent domain case..
"The city condemned a downtown block Whittington's family owned in order to build a $10.5 million parking garage. Last month, the Texas Supreme Court denied the city's request to hear an appeal, reaffirming a prior ruling in Whittington's favor.
The Whittington family, which has owned the block on Red River between Fourth and Fifth streets since 1980, wanted to develop the lot into apartments or shops."
quotes from the Austin American Statesman.
Posted by TexSquid at February 12, 2006 05:04 PMI wonder if Armstrong works for the GOP in the "it's always someone else's fault" department?
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Doesn't everyone in the GOP work in that department?
Posted by sf at February 12, 2006 05:07 PMSounds like Cheney's party waited to see if Whittington died or pulled through before they announced Cheney's gaffe.
But the next thing to wonder about is would the news have come out at all if Whittington had gone to meet his Maker as a direct result of Cheney's scattershot?
Posted by Jen Morris at February 12, 2006 05:14 PMHoly shit! Ha, ha, ha! Aaron Burr lives!
Posted by Toby Petzold at February 12, 2006 05:18 PM"Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh, heh! I'm hunting wabbits."
Catch 60 Minutes if you get a chance. They bitch-slap the administration on private contractors in Iraq, stem cell lunacy, and end with a very sad piece on amputee's and brain injured service people from the Iraq war (Mission Accomplished). Excellent journalism and about time to see CBS calling the douche bags in the administration what they are. Douche bags.
Posted by phidipides at February 12, 2006 05:23 PMarrrgh...cheney...arrrgh!!!
Posted by bbtb at February 12, 2006 05:29 PMThe guy in the picture kinda looks like Dan Quayle. Maybe that's what Cheney thought they said. We're going hunting Dan Quayle.
Posted by sf at February 12, 2006 05:36 PMThey kept it quiet for 24 hours - not too bad considering the NYT sat on the NSA story for a year!
You have to wonder why they hushed it up for 24 hours. They probably wanted to keep the "accident" quiet until the Sunday talkfest was over. After all Condi had to get her message out (She was on two shows)- Sen. Roberts had to spin the bs for Bushco, etc. They have a propaganda machine to run, people!!
But this was a surprise - Chris Matthews had a nice take down of Cheney at the end of his show today. He said that Bush has given Cheney too much power during a time of War and that we need to question this NOW!! Hope he keeps this up!!
So if he walked up behind them, how the hell did Big Time Dick shoot the guy? That description doesn't make sense!
Because, generally, when somebody is behind you, you can't shoot them unless you've turned around. Or unless the guy walked through them, from back to front, and then Big Time Dick tried to cap the guy.
Posted by Duckman GR at February 12, 2006 06:17 PMEveryday they get crazier. Next thing you know they will fatally shoot someone.
Posted by Ga6thDem at February 12, 2006 06:36 PMaaarrrghhh!
Posted by phidipides at February 12, 2006 06:40 PMNapoleon put out the eye of one of his generals during an ill-fated imperial hunting trip as well (can't remember who, but he likely didn't regret his wound). The Emperor was famously a terrible shot.
That little incident was probably not covered in the press of the day, either!
Snarling Dick is by all accounts a real consumer of military history, so perhaps he thought this was the established way to handle an accidental shooting matter.
Posted by euzoius at February 12, 2006 06:57 PMThis is simply another case of "fawlty intelligence" with a bit of situational unawareness thrown in.
Nothing new, nothing to see, move along please.
"Holy shit! Ha, ha, ha! Aaron Burr lives!"
Aaron crapped bigger ones than Cheney!
Fred Burr
Don't believe anything if it involves this Administration. FU Cheney was probably drunker than a skunk, thus the delay.
Posted by Judith at February 12, 2006 07:19 PMSo, just when was the last time a Vice-President shot somebody...was it Aaron Burr? (fucking hilarious!!)
New spokesman for the NRA...the one...the only...DICK CHENEY.....! (loud applause)
I know...we'll call him "CHE DICK", what a revolutionary! His motto, "Don't fuck with me, I'll even shoot my friends"!
I think this guy isn't doing too well, where are the media? He's still in the ICU, in "good" (?) condition? Sound's like he's been in a head on collision and just woke up. This must surely be among the deleted minutes in the tape.
Posted by jerry at February 12, 2006 08:00 PMI think this guy isn't doing too well,
That's what he gets for trying to sell photos of Chimpy and Jeff prancing about AF-1 in bare bottom chaps.
Posted by phidipides at February 12, 2006 08:09 PMWonder where Whittington would be if Cheney had been "peppered"?
Posted by Gordy at February 12, 2006 08:25 PMin other day and other times, this might be funny.
then again that could have been my black ass.
not funny.
Posted by hound at February 12, 2006 08:42 PMIf you had a colossal ego like Cheney, the most horiffic blow would be to have people laughing at you. I mean, really, seriously, drop to your knees hysteria. I know I did! Let's see what being laughed at does to his stellar personality. Let's see some finger pointing and knee slapping whenever he appears.
Posted by Cordier at February 12, 2006 08:43 PMDAYS
reinforcing the stereotype -- i'm my own worst --fill in the blank.
Posted by hound at February 12, 2006 08:45 PMScott Adams says it well :-)
http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2006/02/this_is_why_i_b.html
The real question is, who is going to foot the bill. Whittington is a lawyer, he's 78, but he's also a major Republican player. He's been appointed by Bush to head the Funeral Services Committee after the "funeralgate" and has been reappointed by Perry. Perry also put him on a couple of other committees. Meanwhile, Harry sued the city (Austin) because the city took away his family's property to build a convention center garage.
But enough about Harry. If he files a claim, Cheney will have to poney up medical and punitive. Even if he doesn't file, DeadEye Dick will try to settle quickly. But whose money is it going to be? Personal? Taxpayers'? Private donations from the NRA membership? Kool-Aid Armstrong's insurance policy? Haliburton? Take your pick and have fun with it!
Posted by buck turgidson at February 12, 2006 09:51 PMI wonder if this was just practice, just in case he'll need to take W out one of these days. Hey, George, look! You got a bird! Go get it (sucker!)!
Posted by buck turgidson at February 12, 2006 09:52 PMOTEC you turnin'?
Cult o'Bush and all that? Sick i say on ya. 'n wet all over.
what up about that funeral an' all. yesterday's news. sigh
but let us go back to the fact: dickey shot a man. he did not linch him.
Posted by hound at February 12, 2006 09:57 PMSo Whittington foolish caused Cheney to shoot him.
Should we be allowing people with dubious gun safety practices to be within killing range of the vice president?
Posted by Steve Nichols at February 12, 2006 11:01 PMOfficially, It's The Other Guy's Fault
After it took the best part of a day to work out who the official spokesperson would be and the official spokesperson turned out to be Mrs Armstrong?
Guns don't shoot people, Vice-Presidents do!
Posted by the professor at February 13, 2006 05:05 AMin retrospect, those 5 deferments were a good thing and probably saved american lives.
Posted by benjoya at February 12, 2006 04:42 PM
I don't know about that. You need to weigh the americans saved from friendly fire accidents in what would have been Pencil dick's platoon vs. the americans who have died due to Pencil Dick's decisions as the acting pResident. At least 2.5K by now (not including Twin Tower deaths which could be laid at his feet).
And that's not counting all the foreign casualties that could be considered to be caused by this motherCheneying idiot.
Posted by (: Tom :) at February 13, 2006 07:27 AMI agree with buck, I want to know who is going to pay for the medical bills.
Posted by rlp at February 13, 2006 07:53 AM"After it took the best part of a day to work out who the official spokesperson would be and the official spokesperson turned out to be Mrs Armstrong?"
Doesn't that seem strange to anyone? Twenty one hours to decide who would be the official spokesperson. How about Cheney just coming on TV and saying there had been an accident. I smell something very funny in all this.
It is painfully obvious that you know little to nothing about hunting quail. Keep it up though, as is is funny as hell reading these types of faux outrage.
Posted by Aaron at February 14, 2006 10:51 AM