Cheney is the gift that will keep on giving...

[kentuck]

His name, like many others, will be etched in history in a memorable manner. He will be ridiculed. He cannot escape it. Like Bill Clinton, comedians can still make sex jokes about him and people still laugh. They will be able to make jokes about Cheney years from now in the same manner but in realtions to guns and violence and a myriad of other topics. This is one of the all-time great stories for comedians and ridicule. He cannot excape. :)

[underpants]

1. I sleep better knowing that Dick approves of his own actions that day

I mean after he shot the guy in the face and all.

Talk about Machiavellian :eyes:

I love how Hume approached this delicate interview "...and then what happened?" How really hard hitting stuff there.

[Jackpine Radical]

2. I believe you're calling it exactly right.

This is gonna be like Chappaquiddick, but somehow funnier. I hope Harry makes it, but there is something so outrageous about Fuddgate that it will live forever in the American legend.

[kentuck]

4. Yep...

This will be funnier at time goes by....

[oldtime dfl_er]

13. Fuddgate??!!!

I LOVE it!!

:rofl:

http://www.cafepress.com/scarebaby/936290

[Burried News]

3. I'll drink to that. PULL ...

[mtnsnake]

5. Great minds think alike

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x427416

[kentuck]

6. But you were first !

But you are correct.. :)

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Here's my entry from yesterday...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=409282&mesg_id=416670

I think the average American understands this on a gut level.
That's one of the reasons I've been saying that this incident could be the Big One, the one that changes public perception once and for all, stupid as it seems.

Also, Cheney has become a laughingstock, and the Puggie ego can't withstand much of that. All the little Puggiebots with their porous senses of self vicariously invested in the Administration are going to feel personally mortified by the laughter, and the result ain't gonna be pretty.

[kentuck]

14. I miss a lot of these great posts with my work schedule...

But I am encouraged there are more great minds out there besides my own... :)

[lpbk2713]

7. It's a gold mine for the late night talk shows. They must love him.

Who needs writers when they can draw material from Dumb and Dumber?

[mtnsnake]

9. and the instant that Whittington's health improves

Leno, Letterman, & Conan will come down even harder on Cheney.......for years to come, too.

When all is said and done, this is what Cheney will be remembered for....for being a bumbling fuck-up.

[peacetalksforall]

8. And this is everyone's perfect opportunity to turn the attention to his

shut-down of Brewster-Jennings and his wmd dealings.

He's been secretive too long. Now is the time to turn that spot light on his dealings.

He can never again descend back into the depths of his bunker and get away with his business that is ruining us.

Take every opportunity to tell people about Brewster-Jennings.

He's getting attacked for personal stuff, turn it in to what counts.

Educate yourself about why Brewster-Jennings might have been investigating what he was involved in, if you haven't done it already.

[mtnsnake]

10. "He's been secretive too long."

Maybe now that he's not so secretive, and he had that faux interview yesterday that revealed his innermost feelings (yeah, right).....

maybe he'll fess up and tell us WTF that bulge is in his pants leg.

[MrBenchley]

11. It's lose-lose for the GOP

Either they kick his flabby ass to the curb (and what a debacle that will be)....or they prop him up and go on pretending shooting a 78-year-old campaign contributor on a weekend trip to a lobbyist's ranch where you've gone with a woman not your wife while drunk and then trying to cover it up afterwards is just hunky-dory.

[mac56]

15. Exactly.

They can try to spin, but there ain't enough spin in the world to make this one okay.

[MrBenchley]

16. The thing about this one is

that it's just the right size for everybody to get their head around.....

The rest of the scandals are complicated and it's easy for someone to get lost in the "liberals say/conservatives say" back and forth.

But shooting somebody in the head and trying to cover that up is instantly understandable as something that's WRONG. Especially as thingss begin to drip-drip-drip away.....

Remember, when we first heard the story, it was a tragic accident and Harry was more bruised than bloody but he was just fine and dandy.

Then it turned out that Harry had been shot in the face the day before, and he was in intensive care, and they had been trying to keep it quiet.

Then it turned out that various people were trying to pretend it somehow was Harry's fault that he had gotten shot.

Then it turned out that pResident Duh didn't get told there was a shooting until Saturday night and didn't get told Cheney was the shooter until Sunday morning (and didn't seem to much care about either half of the news).

Then it turned out that the vice president's office had said nothing at all about the shooting.

Then it turned out that Cheney didn't have a proper hunting license.

Then it turned out it had been an weekend long hunting trip that Cheney was taking with a woman who was not his wife.

Then it turned out that Harry had a heart attack because he had got shot in the face and heart (and maybe the liver). Furthermore, Harry incoveniently had his heart attack at about the same timethat the White House and right wing flacks decided it was all a big joke and began yukking it up at Harry's expense.

And then it turned out that Cheney had been drinking, and that the woman whose ranch he was having his misadventure at was a registered lobbyist.

And so on.