Not Surprisingly, Democrats Overreaching On Cheney's Hunting Accident
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They just don't know when to stop. Democrats are so intent on tearing down this Administration that they are now using the VP's hunting accident to try and score political points. Get this:
<<< US Senator Hillary Clinton called the Bush administration's failure to be more forthcoming "troubling."
"A tendency of this administration -- from the top all the way to the bottom -- is to withhold information ... to refuse to be forthcoming about information that is of significance and relevance to the jobs that all of you do, and the interests of the American people. Putting it all together, going back years now, there's a pattern and it's a pattern that should be troubling. The refusal of this administration to level with the American people on matters large and small is very disturbing, because it goes counter to the way our constitutional democracy ... is supposed to work."
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid at a press conference Tuesday said the secretive tendency goes beyond Cheney, pervading the entire Bush White House.
"I think the reason it took the vice president a day to talk about this is part of the secretive nature of this administration. They keep things pretty close to the chest. I think it's time the American people heard from the vice president, in a real meeting just like we're having here," said Reid, who called the George W. Bush presidency "the most secretive administration in modern history." "In the last many, many decades, there's no administration more secretive than this," he said.
Senator Chuck Schumer said Tuesday the time has come for the vice president to hold a press conference -- which Schumer said would be Cheney's first in some four years -- to clear the air. "In light of the recent shooting accident and all the questions surrounding his role in the leaking of classified national security information through his Chief of Staff Lewis Libby, there are many questions that Americans have for VP Cheney," Schumer said in a press release. >>>
How sad is it that these clowns are so desperate to score political points that they are willing to turn a VP's response to a hunting accident into a referendum on the secrecy of the administration? The only people the VP owes any duty to discuss the incident with are Mr. Whittington and his family, and any law enforcement agency conducting an investigation. He's done both.
To turn this into a political issues is just another brick in the wall highlighting the intellectual and political bankruptcy of the Democrat party.
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