Top Democrats urge Cheney come forward on shooting

Reuters ^ | Feb 15, 2006 | By Steve Holland

[johnny7]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney should publicly explain his shooting of a Texas lawyer in a hunting accident, top congressional Democrats said on Wednesday after a White House meeting that included Cheney. Cheney has been publicly silent since he sprayed Harry Whittington with birdshot during a quail-hunting trip to Texas last Saturday.

[mewzilla]

Gee, I don't see Teddy Kennedy on that list

Wonder why not...?

[ark_girl]

We're still waiting for Senator Kennedy to explain his unaccounted for manslaughter incident. I'm sure he'll get right on that.

[small voice in the wilderness]

He is coming forward, Britt Hume will be interviewing him today. The MSM and dems. are just going to have to watch Fox News to get an update! Hey, Gregory, Britt got the scoop! BWHAHAHA

[PilloryHillary]

VP Cheney will be talking to Brit Hume at 6:00 p.m. tonight. Should be very interesting.

[1Old Pro]

Why did Kennedy wait almost a half a day to report a car accident where the girl riding in his car was killed and HE was at the wheel driving while intoxicated?

http://www.ytedk.com/chapter5.htm

10:00 AM

- Arena arrived at the Edgartown police station, and found Kennedy in his office using his phone. - "Hello, Senator. I'm Jim Arena," he said. - Kennedy hung up, came around the desk to shake Arena's outstretched hand and said, "Hello, Jim." - From his state trooper days at Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston, Arena recognized the other man with Kennedy as former US Attorney Paul Markham. Arena said, "I'm sorry about the accident." - "Yes, I know," Kennedy said. "I was the driver." - "Nothing in my prior career as a police officer," Arena recalled later, "had prepared me for standing in a wet bathing suit and shaking hands with a United States Senator - and a Kennedy - who tells me he is the driver of a car from which I have just removed the body of a beautiful young girl. I was stunned." - Arena was struck by the incongruity of the situation. "Our roles could have been reversed. The Senator was in clean, dry clothes - poised, confident and in control, using my office and telephone. I'm standing in a puddle of water in a state of confusion thinking I had only minutes before broken the news of a personal tragedy he's now telling me quite calmly he knows all about." - "What would you like me to do?" Kennedy asked. "We must do what is right or we will both be criticized for it." - As far as Arena could see, it was a routine motor vehicle accident. "The first thing we have to do," he said, "is to have a statement from you about what happened." - "Would it be all right if I wrote it out?" kennedy said, requesting time "undisturbed" to prepare the statement. - Arena led the way to and unoccupied office down the hall "so the Senator could have some privacy". Kennedy asked Arena to return to Chappaquiddick to see that his car "got out and cleared OK." - Arena, who was thoroughly rattled by the Senator's admission that he had been the driver of the fatal accident car, was glad for the repreive. On his way to the ferry, Arena collected his thoughts, reminding himself of the proper police procedures to follow when he returned to the station to receive Kennedy's statement.

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[CaptRon]

What does that mean 'come forward'? What, is he hiding out in a refinery with Jimmy Cagney or something?

[nuconvert]

Lol. Good!

[CBart95]

Ignoring the Painfully Obvious:

This time it really is Bush's Fault.

Stop for one second. Who else had the authority to set the timing on this story release?

This is a wonderful example of the Total Failure of the Imagination...on everyone's part.

[JFC]

Demanding group of jerks! Who do they think they are to DEMAND. What the heck is Cheney suppose to say? There was an accident, his friend was shot, his friend is okay and he has talked with his friend. He paid the 7.50 for the stamp he needed on his hunting certificate.
Abd oh yes,
David Greggory is an idiot along with the rest of the media.

[mewzilla]

Good point.

And how long did it take the Toon admin to announce Vince Foster's death...?

[SIDENET]

Democrats.

[One Proud Dad]

I would stay silent and give an interview to fox if anybody. I would never make a public news conferences available.

[Brilliant]

"publicly explain"



I thought he already said it was an accident. What more explanation is needed?

[johnny7]

“Hey ma... top of the world!!”

[Peach]

Who are the top Democrats? I seem to recall Howard Dean refusing to answer that question and in fact said it was an unfair question.

[frankiep]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!

[RexBeach]

I urge Cheney to go backward on shooting.

My God, what do these people expect Mr. Cheney to say? That's he's sorry? He's already done that to the man who was injured. To admit that the incident was more than an accident? He's already been cleared of that notion by the local authorities. It was an accident. To say that he wasn't drunk? To say that he should have alerted the maggots in the White Houser Press Corps sooner?

Bottom line: No matter WHAT he says, it won't be enough. Therefore, he shouldn't even bother.

[Liberty Valance]

CNN now says that Cheney will make his first public comments "this afternoon". They can't say the words FOXNEWS. Thats worse for them than having to say the words Corpus Christi Caller-Times.

[Joe Brower]

The lengths that the dems and the MSM are going to make political hay out of this minor mishap are truly incredible to behold, although not surprising in the least. Their front-page color coverage of this utter non-event, going on three days now, was quite predictable.