Reply #24: While Republicans are known for an inability...

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... to walk and chew gum at the same time, that's not much of a problem for a lot of people here. :)

One of the advantages of having tens of thousands of people reading and or checking in more or less daily is that someone, somewhere, is going to pass on the current news. Have a look at the LBN page for the day--it's proof that people are paying attention to everything.

Sure, there are lots of jokes and such, but those would be there, anyway (maybe in the Lounge, normally, but still).

What I do find about this is that it's emblematic of this administration. We know Cheney shot someone by accident. But, the ensuing cover-up is, as it is so often, much more intriguing. While there's some amusement to be gained to see the manner of squirming going on, the reason for it may be serious. There's the supposition that Cheney had too much to drink. That fits with the idle noveau riche character of modern Republicans.

But, what fascinates me about this is the degree to which everyone is being very circumspect about the other guests that weekend. Now, this place isn't a $300/weekend dude ranch for the average drugstore cowboy. The people who own it are movers and shakers in their own rights and have been heavyweight Republican operatives for decades. And the one thing that connects them all is money. My question, right now, is: was the hunting incidental to some other purpose for them all getting together that weekend? Was the delay in reporting possibly to do with getting some of the other guests out of the place and on the road, because they didn't want it to be known they were there? Things being discussed around the old fireplace in the evening that they didn't want to get out?

So, no, I don't think it's a distraction, or that other matters will slip past general notice. I hope there's continued interest in it, at least until the entire guest list shows up somewhere.

Another important thing to remember is that current Republicans thrive on the sort of attention that puffs them up and out. They're probably the most self-important crop of gasbags this country has ever produced. Bringing attention to their capacity for stupidity, ridiculing them for their pompousness and phony gravitas, is all to the good. The first problem with government, media, and the public these days is that the general public thinks these goofyfuck Republicans are smart, where, in fact, they are crazy ideologues. Keeping the Cheney story going gives the public a chance to see who and what they really are.

Cheers.