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Politics : Cheney Shoots Ducks (and a person) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (929)	2/19/2006 1:26:18 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1307

An interesting queston - what were the SEcret Service guys doing..where were they. Shouldn't they have known at all times were someone with a loaded gun in Cheney's vicinity was at ALL times? Then again, this from Time Mag: Cheney makes his own rules; he decides what intelligence matters, what secrets are worth keeping and what force is worth using, and he defends his positions with a breathtaking indifference to consequences and to complaint from those who disagree. He went off to spend a relaxing -- and unannounced -- weekend hunting with friends who also happened to be donors and lobbyists at a time when both species find themselves under fire. And it turned into a nightmare for everyone involved. As for critics on the Hill, a House Republican leadership aide said Cheney will remain the lawmakers' top back channel to Bush. "A hunting accident, even with their bungling, isn't going to change that. It's been helpful that the press has been so obnoxious and such prima donnas. It made people here feel sorry for the White House." cnn.com

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (929)	2/19/2006 1:40:15 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1307

The medicrats are an absolute joke. As soon as I turned on my browser, the headline news story from MSN was "Inside Cheney's Secretive World." From buzz-words like "Culture of Corruption" to "Secretive," the media is nothing more than a mouthpiece for the Democrat Party. This is so ludicrous when you consider that they NEVER used these adjectives when discussing the Clinton administration...which, unlike the Bush administration, included numerous, legitimate scandals that were never fully vetted. And that's the key point: The media is doing its best to create scandal were there is none...while under Clinton, they not only ignored scandal, but marginalized them to make them insignificant.