Posted on 02/12/2006 6:33:21 PM PST by doug from upland
Edited on 02/12/2006 6:54:05 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Many Republicans have been both perplexed and angered by the Bush family and its attempt to cozy up with Bill Clinton. After all, Clinton is still the enemy and will do anything to harm the Bush Administration.
Well, folks, when you hear this one, you are going to go apoplectic. Vice President Dick Cheney is apparently getting into the act. This is not yet confirmed, and the source is usually very unreliable, but I must nevertheless file this report.
Cheney, an avid outdoorsman, has apparently sent an invitation to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Harry Reid, Senator Charles Schumer, and DNC Chairman Howard Dean to join him next month on a duck hunt in Wyoming.
What in the world is Cheney thinking? I have really had it with these guys trying to be nice to the Democrats. Every time they try to reach out, they get burned. This is not going to go over well with the party faithful.
If I get more details or can confirm the offer, I will report it to you.
LOL!!!
"Vice President Dick Cheney Makes Unprecedented Effort to Reach Out to Democrats"
Hopefully with a shotgun..
Sorry, couldn't resist.
bump.
DUCK HOWIE! bwahahahahahaha!
You are here by invited for A Day of Recreation and fun
The Vice President of the United States would like you to join him for a day of
Quail Hunting on his friends Ranch in South Texas at your earliest convenience
It will be the VP's honor to give you a three minute head start.
Looking Forward to your company
Dick Cheney
P.S. Hillary is welcome also
Reach out and touch someone with 12ga #8 shot.
Vice President Dick Cheney Makes Unprecedented Effort to Reach Out to Democrats
Or else? (Snicker)
Oh how I wish he would!! Very funny. :)
CC?PING
Cheney accidentally shoots fellow hunter
AP ^ | 02/11/06 | NEDRA PICKLER
Posted on 02/12/2006 12:46:46 PM PST by bayourant
Edited on 02/12/2006 2:10:43 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday.
Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets on Saturday while the two were hunting at the Armstrong Ranch in south Texas, said property owner Katharine Armstrong.
Armstrong said Whittington was mostly injured on his right side, with the pellets hitting his cheek, neck and chest, and was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Whittington was in stable condition Sunday, said Yvonne Wheeler, spokeswoman for the Christus Spohn Health System.
Cheney's spokeswoman, Lea Anne McBride, said the vice president was with Whittington, a lawyer from Austin, Texas, and his wife at the hospital on Sunday afternoon.
Armstrong said she was watching from a car while Cheney, Whittington and another hunter got out of the vehicle to shot at a covey of quail late afternoon on Saturday.
Whittington shot a bird and went to look for it in the tall grass, while Cheney and the third hunter walked to another spot and found a second covey.
Whittington "came up from behind the vice president and the other hunter and didn't signal them or indicate to them or announce himself," Armstrong told the Associated Press in an interview.
"The vice president didn't see him," she continued. "The covey flushed and the vice president picked out a bird and was following it and shot. And by god, Harry was in the line of fire and got peppered pretty good."
The shooting was first reported by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times.
She said Whittington was bleeding but not very seriously injured, and Cheney was very apologetic.
"It broke the skin," she said. "It knocked him silly. But he was fine. He was talking. His eyes were open. It didn't get in his eyes or anything like that."
She said emergency personnel traveling with Cheney tended to Whittington, holding his face and cleaning up the blood.
"Fortunately, the vice president has got a lot of medical people around him and so they were right there and probably more cautious than we would have been," she said. "The vice president has got an ambulance on call, so the ambulance came."
Armstrong said Cheney is a longtime friend who comes to the ranch to hunt about once a year. She said Whittington is a regular, too, but she thought it was the first time the two men hunted together.
"This is something that happens from time to time. You now, I've been peppered pretty well myself," said Armstrong.
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Associated Press writer Paul Weber in Dallas contributed to this report.
Haha, the democrats are going to do their best to keep away from Cheney for a while!
That is just Wrong on so many levels! Too funny doug!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
When you copy it, add the word "nice," which I left out of the sentence.
Pssst. Hillary - take this "duck call" and go over to the reeds and try to attract some.
I, for one, applaud the VP's efforts to share his love of hunting with the loyal opposition. But he better get it right. He only has one shot at this.
The Most Dangerous Game
You mean take them "quail hunting !"
Not a bad idea !
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