Heads up, Arkansas! Cheney's hunting!

[DeepModem Mom]

WP, "The Sleuth," Mary Ann Akers
12/ 4/2007
Cheney Skips White House Holiday Bash To Hunt

Missing from Monday night's black-tie White House holiday ball for all three branches of government was one very prominent official of the executive branch: Vice President Dick Cheney. He was away on a life-threatening mission - at least for the brave souls who joined him.

Members of Congress flocked to the White House in their tuxedos and gowns for well-spiked eggnog, gourmet nosh (the crab cakes and chicken fingers were big hits) and photos with President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. And some of them noticed that while the Bushes stood for hours on end saying "cheese" with hundreds of lawmakers, justices, Cabinet officials and select staffers - Cheney was nowhere to be found.

Was Cheney being a Scrooge, or what? Or maybe he was just taking it easy after having electrical shock therapy for his irregular heart beat. Some wondered if he was off sulking about a new National Intelligence Estimate that contradicted the administration's campaign to depict Iran's nuclear development as a grave threat.

But no. It turns out Cheney was off enjoying his favorite pastime: hunting. Asked why Cheney skipped the White House bash, the vice president's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, told us he was in Arkansas. Doing what? "He was hunting," she said. (Woo-hoo! A Cheney hunting story!) And who dared go with him? we asked, thinking of poor Harry Whittington, the lawyer who Cheney shot in the face last year...."Personal friends, I didn't ask," McBride told us.

Cheney went duck hunting in Arkansas just last month when he served as guest of honor at a fundraiser for the Republican Party of Arkansas. (No casualties were reported.) Unlike the free photos with President and Mrs. Bush at the White House Christmas party, it cost $1,000 per person to have a photo taken with Cheney at the Arkansas GOP event....

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/sleuth/2007/12/cheney_skips_white_house_holid.html

[Eurobabe]

1. Hunting for WHAT? A new heart?

Be afraid Arkansans. :scared:

[NC_Nurse]

2. Duck and cover!

:silly:

[ChairmanAgnostic]

3. head's up? HELL NO. Drop down and look for cover.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. Oh, I meant that figuratively -- bad choice of words! nt

[thereismore]

4. NIE is bad news for Dickey - he has to kill something. Lots of it. nt

[Lucinda]

6. Can't we get one of those registration programs (like sex offenders) that'sexclusively for DC

where he'd have to publically register his whereabouts before they let him out in public with a gun?
I'd feel much safer. :)

[Buzz Clik]

7. Here's a pic of Cheney's hog -- before the hunt

It will look pretty similar after the hunt.

Drive up. Roll down the window. Shoot the pig. Hire somebody to "take care of it".

[malaise]

8. Have there been any pix of Cheney since his

hospital visit.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Apparently not. When I searched DU to see if this article had been posted...

I found (I think, recent) posts asking about his whereabouts.

[malaise]

11. So he may simply be sicker than we're being told

Last time he went hunting we saw photos. Was this WP article just cover for his absence last night?

[DeepModem Mom]

12. Anything's possible with this cabal! nt

[DemoTex]

10. What, me worry?