Due to the way I’m having to do this tonight, there won’t be any imbedded links, so just click the links following the snippets to connect.
1) Oh Goodie! Apparently, before the announcement was made that Cheney had shot a man (‘just to see him die’), Karl Rove had a co-ordinating phone call with Anne Armstrong (the owner of the you-see-it-you-shoot-it-GOD-not-him! Ranch they were ‘hunting’ on.) It’s probably entirely innocent (the chief PR guy would want to find out what happened) but combined with Cheney’s non-chalance, the delay in reporting it, etc, it just keeps looks worse and worse for Bu$hCo. I don’t think there was any intention by Cheney to shoot the guy, but it just looks fishy. Of course, Teddy didn’t mean to drown Mary Jo either.
Speaking of Chappaquidick, John @ Americanblog calls this Cheney’s Chappaquidick and details the ‘charges.’
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/02/cheneys-chappaquiddick.html
The Houston Chronicle says Whittington was hit by 10 pellets; the Austin American Statesman says 200+. Either way, OUCH!
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/14whittington.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3656140.html
Paul Begala opines that Cheney was being reckless, well, just being Cheney, I guess.
http://www.tpmcafe.com/node/26663
2) Kevin weighs in on the absurdity (and probably inconsequentiality) of the whole affair. But he notes, Cheney was hunting without a license. Now THAT, Texas might get serious about prosecuting. They take hunting SERIOUSLY in my home state.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_02/008219.php
Reddhedd @ FDL takes on the whole hunting safety issue.
http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_firedoglake_archive.html#113985176383965724
3) I don’t even know how to approach the venality and mendacity of this. Apparently, Bu$hCo is about to let oil companies pillage federal land for oil, WITHOUT paying royalties. Someone explain to me again why we have to wait til ’08 to get rid of these guys?
4) Everyone’s favorite weasel got into a shouting match with David Gregory, NBC’s WH correspondent, over the Cheney brouhaha. Good to see these guys finally calling him on his inability to report anything accurately (or ability to report nothing accurately.) He’s moved beyond spin into gyroscope territory.
http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2006/02/no_lights_no_ca.html
5) Numbnuts falls below 40% again in the latest CNN/USAToday poll. And this was before ‘pellet-gate.’
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/02/13/poll.iran/
6) UN DEMANDS closure of Gitmo. Says it’s torture.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/13/wguan13.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_13022006
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