I'd Rather Shoot A Republican Lawyer Than A Poor Defenseless Quail Too

Holy shit. I just watched the press conference on CNN of Scott McClellan taking questions about Cheney shooting a fellow hunter on Saturday morning. He is so irritating to watch. So he claimed that Dubya didn't know that his VP had shot somebody until Sunday, even though it happened Saturday afternoon. But then Andy Card later said that Georgie-boy knew Saturday night, so they can't even get their stories straight when they've had two days to prepare. And McClellan claimed that the reason the information wasn't given to the public until 23 hours later was because the VP and his staff were focused on getting medical attention for the wounded hunter. Why Scott thinks that people will buy the that answer is beyond me. After dialing 911 and getting the man to the hospital, what more is there to do? Did the VP and his staff and the Secret Service scrub-in and help with the operation? Nobody was available to make a phone call for the next 23 hours? I mean, the first shooting involving a VP in this country since Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton, isn't this something we should know about? Like, sooner rather than later?

The people of this administration are doing so many illegal things that they just, as a general rule, lie about and cover up everything. I mean, you can't get a straight answer from these stupid fuckers about anything. Every press briefing goes like this:

Reporter: "Scott, what about reports that the sky is blue?"
McClellan: "I haven't seen these reports you are talking about. And we don't comment on ongoing overhead illuminations until the special prosecutor has finished his investigation as to the sky being blue."
Reporter: "So the sky is blue?"
McClellan: "That's how you would characterize it, I didn't call it blue. You called it blue."
Reporter: "But doesn't the president think the sky is blue, Scott."
McClellan: "That's a ridiculous question and I'm not going to dignify it with a response."

And on and on it goes....

Rule of thumb of this administration is "When in doubt, lie about everything."

Question I didn't hear asked by reporters that I think needs to be:

"Had the VP been drinking or was he in any way impaired by any prescription or over-the-counter medication?" After all, we are talking about a guy who has two separate arrests for driving while intoxicated.

And who the fuck thinks it's OK for a 67-year-old who's had 5 heart attacks to be carrying a gun? Do we really want a man who's likely to have a cardiac event at any moment to have his finger on the trigger of a shotgun? Holy shit, when my grandfather's health got too bad we wouldn't even let him drive anymore, much less go hunting. And he didn't even have the anger management issues or history of drinking problems that Cheney's got. I'm just sayin'....