Hagel takes a shot

February 17, 2006

I think I can hear Karl Rove removing Chuck Hagel from the White House Christmas-card list right about … now.

Hagel also got in a gibe at Vice President Dick Cheney’s accidental shooting of a hunting partner last weekend.

Referring to Cheney’s repeated draft deferrals during the Vietnam War, Hagel said, “If he’d been in the military, he would have learned gun safety.”

I’m pretty sure conservative Republican senators aren’t supposed to make that joke. A snide remark about wearing orange, maybe. But combining Cheney’s multiple draft deferrals and Cheney’s hunting incident is a definite no-no.

And speaking of the shooting, this little tidbit won’t do anything to dissuade the conspiracy theorists.

In the only publicly available, official report on last weekend’s accidental shooting by Vice President Dick Cheney, a diagram of a body shows where Austin lawyer Harry Whittington was hit by pellets fired from Cheney’s Italian-made shotgun.

That diagram has been picked up and faithfully replicated by television and newspapers across the country, including the New York Times this week and by Newsday Thursday.

The only problem is that the diagram is wrong, by all accounts. It shows Whittington hit on the left side of his face, neck and chest when Cheney, the Kenedy County Sheriff’s office and the report itself say the wounds were on the right side.

Oliver Stone will no doubt use this to strike a movie deal.

…down and to the left…
…down and to the left…

Where was F-bomb last night, anyway? Someone shot a hole in my Jeep’s windshield in a parking lot…

  • Someone shot a hole in my Jeep’s windshield in a parking lot…

    Any bumper stickers an armed conservative might not like?

  • Just saw Whittington on MSNBC — discolored and bruised on the right side of his face. He also referenced the events as occurring “last Friday”. Right side, left side, drinking, not drinking, Friday, Saturday — move on, people, there’s luging and curling to watch.

  • As a Nebraska liberal, I find myself respecting Hagel (R) far more than Nebraska’s Democrat senator, Nelson. What I’d give to see a Feingold/Hagel ticket in 2008.

  • What I’d give to see a Feingold/Hagel ticket in 2008.

    I’m right there with you. Unfortunately, it has about as much chance of happening as a Kerry/McCain ticket did in 2004.

  • Chuck Hagel… there he goes again talking tough in public, but behind the scenes he swallows his tail when Rove tells him to shut up about a real investigation of the NSA domestic spying. I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep on saying it: Hagel is as much of a fraud as is McCain… they are both just Rethug whores trying to fool the public that they are “mavericks” and “old-fashioned” Rethugs.

    Nothing could be further from the truth. They are, and always will be, card-carrying members of the Rethug Party choir singing the tune that is dictated by the corporate fascists and the American Taliban. NEVER trust anything a Rethug says, especially when it comes from Hagel, McCain, Pat Roberts, Lugar, L. Graham, or any of the other thugs…

  • Speaking of the holidays, Hagel better watch out !!

    Cheney’s got a list and is checkin it twice.
    Gonna find out whose naughty or nice.
    And we already know what he is capable of.
    Paybacks are hell …..when Darth’s battered Deathstar can recharge its dilithium chrystals……There will definitely be a disruption in the force.

    (sorry for the triple play of mixed references, but this is too much fun)

  • Below is the fruit produced by the current administration over the last 5 years:
    … A destroyed economy …spending out of control ($1.5 billion on propaganda)… soaring out of control federal debt …massive trade imbalance … federal debt mortgaged by Communist China … failed and costly energy policy ($7 billion in royalty concessions)…a shrinking middle class …distribution of wealth to the rich and leaves others starving, homeless, unemployed and sickly…tax cuts for the wealthy bankrupting America…. a failed education system … reading and math tests for15-year-olds in America ranked 24th out of 29 nations …racism and poverty on the rise with deeper racial and class divisions …37 million living under the poverty line … world’s costliest health care system …46 million people without health insurance… 43rd in the world infant mortality rankings among developed countries… highest infant mortality rates in the developed world …degraded Medicaid/Medicare system in disarray… a diseased environment …corporate scandal at the highest levels … a destroyed, understaffed military force …disgruntled young military officers …military atrocities … Afghanistan supplying 90 per cent of the world’s heroin … a $6 billion a month invasion of Iraq, poorly planned, clumsy strategy, unwinnable and unending failure… a degraded Bill of Rights … a degraded quality of life …personal savings missing for many …individual spending greater than individual savings … political impaired CIA … politicization of intelligence and extensive fabricated intelligence failures …corporatocracy …detaining citizens without due process … warrantless spying on Americans …very low presidential job approval rating 39% …fear and loathing …no imagination …failure of leadership …crippled and tone-deaf leaders … loss of respect from most foreign countries …perceived as a overindulging rogue nation …loss of manufacturing/industrial jobs to China …Wal-Mart largest employer, lowest wages …Increased corporate crime and backroom deals … corporate executives jailed for cooking the books and looting billions …no sense of fair play…loss of moral and political authority …economic failure of small family-owned farms … Pederasty … an orgy of cronyism, corruption and incompetence…lack of effective responses to natural and man-made disasters …negligent government … open and frequent disclosure of classified information …open borders…corrupt and sleazy practices by congress and lobbyists … Abramoff influence-peddler and bagman for Republican causes … 60 congressmen and senators bribed …native American tribes robbed blind… young republican activist code named “Pac man” advances pro-apartheid government … incompetent officials perpetuating lies, fraud and deception …unlawful and dysfunctional cabal…officials guilty of high crimes and treason …widespread dishonesty, injustice, greed, graft and scandal … Attorney General sounded more like a mob mouthpiece …cynical hair-splitting, obfuscation, disinformation and stonewalling …uncontested stolen billions carved up in no-bid contracts awarded to politically-connected firms in sole source contracts …war profiteering …Deadeye Dick drunken shootout … meaningless ballots … the rape of our republic … huge risible and cynical propaganda ministry with “fake news” …faux media poodle,… death … torture… uncaring … incessant lying … demoralized and disconnected from reality…paralyzed with shame, embarrassment and fear… public doubt … unrestricted sociopath … tyranny … disregard for the Constitution … an outright assault on the Constitution …a complete disruption of the rule of law … lawlessness – no checks and balances … unilaterally discards treaties …… the list could go on and on as you know. Over the past five years, America’s sense of itself – its pride in its power and authority, its faith in its institutions and its belief in its leaders – has been profoundly damaged. 68% of Americans believe the country is on the wrong track, but can we do anything to change direction? Search your heart and help do something to change this condition! Our Liberties watch in disgust waiting for “We the People” to wake up.

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