Dick Cheney's No Good Very Bad Day

[thisficklemob]

So, Democratic and Republican senators are calling for Dick Cheney to be investigated in the Plame leak. As you may have heard, it was reported last Thursday that in his grand jury testomony, Lewis Libby rolled on Cheney. So what could make his weekend worse?

Well, today he shot somebodyAhahahahahhaha

Comments

[photosinensis]

I kinda feel sorry for the poor sap he shot. I mean, you were assaulted by the Vice President. You know you're not going to get a fair trial. It wasn't his fault, after all--it's a member of the Bush administration.

[thisficklemob]

Yeah, but there is a vanishingly small chance he'd press charges anyway. Both for the reason you state, and because, well, he's a millionaire lawyer going hunting with Cheney. Past Cheney hunting buddies include Antonin Scalia... which of course wasn't a conflict of interest when he had to rule in Bush v. Gore. So this guy is almost undoubtedly a major donor and supporter of the Bush administration anyway. In a way, I'm almost jealous, because he got to see Cheney in a mode few if any of the public ever have, though we deserve to: apologetic.

[photosinensis]

There is some truth to that.

How about a toast to hearing a high-ranking Bushie apologize? *clinks bottle of beer against his monitor and takes a drink*

[thisficklemob]

I'll drink to that. *looks around for a drink* *settles for water with a twist*

To Bushies apologizing!

It's so true, what the book I'm reading says (Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover), that distance and shared responsibility can erase the sympathy and sense of moral identity that make it difficult to kill people. So I'm sure Cheney really was chagrined over personally wounding someone accidentally, where he hasn't shown a bit of remorse over tens or hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilian deaths caused by his administration. But then, the guy he shot was one of "his people". That probably helped.

[witch_wolf]

LOL-- He is such a Dick!

I feel bad for the guy he is in his 70s and you know if the guy dies it won't be Dicks fault.

[thisficklemob]

Yeah... but it doesn't look like he will, and they're probably giving him good drugs, so I don't feel too bad about laughing.

[sockkpuppett]

As I stated earlier in another post, he broke a cardinal rule of hunting and gun safety. You don't shoot at anything until/unless you have line of *sight*. Obviously, this Harrington guy? Pissed off the VP because *surely* the VP, an obviously experienced gun owner, wouldn't have shot him by accident, would he?

*coughcoughcoughdiecheneydiecoughhackwheeze*

[thisficklemob]

Hee hee!

It does sound like Cheney was following a moving target, and this guy hadn't told them he was there behind them... Besides, if Cheney were going to have somebody taken out, he'd have someone else, like Libby, do it. Except... he can't trust Libby any longer. Hmm, wonder who the Veep's hitman is now. Maybe he has to do the dirty work himself? ;-)

[jerrymcl89]

I guess it could have been worse. At least he didn't shoot Scalia :)

[thisficklemob]

On the contrary, I think this should serve as a warning to anybody to the left of Scalia on the Supreme Court not to go hunting with Cheney.