<p>Scott McClellan and Jeb Bush were joking about the shooting today, something about wearing orange in case Dick Cheney happened along. I can’t believe that they would have done this if they known that serious complications were a possibility. </p>
<p>This sounds like a freak event.</p>
<p>Bad luck…that is what it sounds like. Bad and heading toward badder. How long will they wait to announce a death???</p>
<p>It must have been a medical decision - the odds of migration to a critical spot vs. the danger of removing all the pellets. They guessed wrong (one report quoted a doctor saying the odds of migration were 1 in 99. The victim was already an odd-beater - what are the odds that a sitting v.p. will shoot you?)</p>
<p>I heard Cheney’s prepared statement on cable news this afternoon. Apparently being in this administration means never having to say you’re sorry. Nowhere in the statement did he take responsibility. He offered to ‘help’ in any way - staying in D.C. would be a start. I’d like to know if Medicare covers all the treatment, or if the patient has his own health insurance (and if any follow up prescriptions are covered under the new prescription benefit, or if he gambled wrong on this one and signed up for the wrong provider). </p>
<p>Any judge, teacher, priest, parent, etc. out there knows that the one responsible for the harm needs to own up to his actions and take responsibility for them. (And the man lying in the hospital is NOT the one responsible). Seems we do have a moral crisis in this country.</p>
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<p>Particularly when lawyer-hunting season in Texas doesn’t even open for another three weeks…</p>
<p>Funny your brought forward the odds and the circumstances. I can see the journal articles on this case now. As for Cheney…will Karma affect the cause of his demise? If I were Cheney I’d be worried right about now. I’d be stringing my prayer flags and calling the Dali Llama…hehehe</p>
<p>But can we get him to shoot Scalia next?</p>
<p>hey dad…whose picture is on the lawyer hunting stamp??? I mean we could develop this. Bag limit, weapon permitted. Stalking with dog ok?</p>
<p>“I heard Cheney’s prepared statement on cable news this afternoon. Apparently being in this administration means never having to say you’re sorry. Nowhere in the statement did he take responsibility.”</p>
<p>It was, how shall I say it, puke-inducing?</p>
<p>I feel bad for this man, but as so many here have posted, hey, it is the chance you take when you hunt, of course I don’t want anyone hurt, or to die, but now that it has gotten serious, seems that blaming the victim doesn’t seem so smart for the Adminstration</p>
<p>And, still, we need this much ammo to kill a birdie?</p>
<p>no it just takes one pellet…same for the human form. The additional pellets are to maximize the opportunity to kill.</p>
<p>but the birds are so small, and if it takes out a full grown man sending him to the hospital, what damage does it do to a bird and with say, all those pellats in the bird, can you still eat it?</p>
<p>I’m not so sure that the pellets normally take out a full-grown man. I remember reading an interview with the doctor who was the first to treat the victim. He said that he would not have hospitalized the man, but would have released him, and that the major medical measures were taken only because the victim was a VIP.</p>
<p>A bird with puffed up feathers isn’t as small a target as one might think. Flesh and feathers are two different things.</p>
<p>As comi-tragic as this is, as others have noted, this really sorta synthesizes the problems with this administration: shooting first on expectations not grounded in reality and seeing what one wants to see instead of what’s there, minimizing the impact, blaming the victim, trying to evade accurate media coverage, not taking responsibility for things going wrong, and doing so in violation of the law on their own say so when it suits their purpose.</p>
<p>Nice application of the tragic comedy all right. Using the big gun on the small bird. Left with a kill you cannot serve.</p>
<p>A sub-plot here is the lobbying history of Ms. Armstrong, the ranch owner. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/politics/14cheney.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/14/politics/14cheney.html</a></p>
<p><a href=“http://dickcheneyquailhunt.cf.huffingtonpost.com/[/url]”>http://dickcheneyquailhunt.cf.huffingtonpost.com/</a></p>
<p>Too true, TheDad.</p>
<p>This excerpt from the Daily Show is spot on:
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<p>Didn’t the party shoot another Quayle some time ago???</p>
<p>Medically the victim is in very serious trouble:</p>
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