What a joke…:-(
Posted : February 15, 2006 at 1:04 am [America/Los_Angeles]
As the story of the weekend’s bizarre hunting accident is wrenched out of the White House, the picture isn’t pretty: With American soldiers dying in Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick “I Had Other Priorities in the 60’s Than Military Service” Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the occasional old man while W. rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any collateral damage. Shouldn’t these guys work on weekends until we figure out how to fix Iraq, New Orleans, Medicare and gas prices?
— Maureen Dowd, “Shooter Slips on a Silencer”
A White House correspondent expressed the prevailing exasperation Monday in a question to Scott McClellan, the White House press secretary: “The vice president of the United States accidentally shoots a man, and he feels that it’s appropriate for a ranch owner who witnessed this to tell the local Corpus Christi newspaper and not the White House press corps at large, or notify the public in a national way?” Yep. That’s about the sum of it.
— Roger Cohen, “New York Gets It Done; Bush and Cheney Don’t”
I repeat - What a joke!!
- Anand
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