More trouble for Cheney?

[TheBoyfromChi]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:00pm

This was just posted on CNN...Cheney accidentally shot a fellow hunter Sunday in Texas...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/12/cheney.ap/index.html

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:04pm

This is just too unreal.

Perhaps this is the first step in one long big slide that will result in Cheney having to step aside "for health reasons."

The fact that he even has a loaded gun in his hands is also a bit frightening.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:05pm

Gun control. Even for quail hunters.

What do people do after they shoot quail. Do they eat them? Or is it just hunting and shooting for the thrill of the kill?

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:07pm

"The fact that he even has a loaded gun in his hands is also a bit frightening."

You think *that's* scary? The man is one heartbeat away from having his trigger finger on the Red Button.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:10pm

I love quail, but they are so small - wouldn't the buck shot tear the meat - that is gross.

[wexy]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:12pm

He thought the man was a bird. There's good judgement.

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:12pm

This happened almost 24 hours ago, too...and it's just being reported now?

I hear the victim is a lawyer, too.

[cheezedoodle]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:14pm

Who say's you can't get a male in the tail like a quail?

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:15pm

Well, there is scary - i.e., Cheney, three heart attacks later and with a pacemaker, holding a gun, and then there is terrifying - Cheney and Bush.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:24pm

The only good news is that at least Cheney is not running in 2008! (other than running from Fitzgerald!)

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:38pm

Maybe Jeb has the perfect vice-presidential running mate now:

Bush/Quail '08

Updated On: 2/12/06 at 04:38 PM

[Auggie27]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:44pm

Someone adept at corrupting existing commercial art, find THE DEER HUNTER lobby card and do something provocative.

Or maybe THE MOOSE MURDERS?.

Or how about THE LAST OF MRS CHENEY?Lyn better be carefuly when her Dick wanders off to take a leak in the wee hours. He might get confused and think she's a dozing Whitetail. Doe, that is.

[Plum]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 4:51pm

Such an understated title. Tsk. :) I was going to go with "Dick Cheney shoots a man," or something along those lines. Surreality on this level doesn't come along every day.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:06pm

and what would have happened had it been the other way around?

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:09pm

Ahhh, don't get me started . . .

I am sure the Board is monitored and I don't want to go to jail!

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:13pm

I have no doubt that this Board is monitored.

Namo, Quail'08 - that is hilarious!

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:27pm

I wonder if this will reflect badly upon the republican party?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:32pm

Iflit, a wag on the DL reports that the place Cheney goes quail hunting features farm-raised quail with clipped wings.

Ah, the sporting life.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:38pm

Was Scalia there supervising?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:50pm

I just want you all to know I was on that hunting trip with the Vice Pres today, but it's all right. He missed.

This time.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 5:56pm

When it rains - it pours

[PalJoey]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 6:02pm

Still defending that bunch of criminals in the White House, Mr Roxy?

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 6:45pm

So, the guy that Cheney shot in the cheek, neck, and chest, is a lawyer active in Republican politics, who Bush, as governor, once named to the Texas Funeral Commission. I'm finding that amusing...

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 6:56pm

This is what I find truly funny, in a sick twisted sort of way, since many Americans cannot afford insurance or basical medical attention:

"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."


Goodness, it must be nice to never have to live in the real world.
Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter

[iflitifloat]

Posted: 2/12/06 at 7:03pm

LOL...my husband *just* finished reading that same paragraph out loud to me.