Cheney’s approval rating is down to 18 percent, leading one to wonder what kind of person could still be drinking his Kool-Aid. Stop wondering, one. This comes, word for word, from a letter that ran yesterday in our local weekly, The Lakeville Journal:
Your obviously biased question regarding the shooting accident involving the vice president prompts me to reply.
Would I go quail hunting with Dick Cheney? I would be honored to be invited and would go without a worry. He is an experienced hunter, has served our country well for decades and is highly intelligent.
Would you go riding in a car I drove? My record includes a fatality, more than one speeding ticket, and (most recently) a totaled car and more than 40 stitches in my head. But find me one person afraid to ride with me. The point: accidents happen …
Yes accidents do happen and his/her mother had one the day she got pregnant.
Posted by: spiiderweb on March 11, 2006 12:48 AMIt's a good thing for Cheney he had his accident in Texas and not when he was doing the same so-called hunting at Ligonier in Pennsylvania: http://www.pennlive.com/search/index.ssf?/base/news/1141381273176570.xml?pennnews&coll=1.
Yep, minimum $1,000 fine and "Both men also will lose their hunting privileges for five years. They will be required to complete a remedial hunter's safety course and undergo a vision examination if they want their licenses back after five years."
Posted by: Joyful Alternative on March 11, 2006 1:18 AMI love that Cheney can't get his approval rating above that of Nixon during the height of Watergate... gives me just a wee bit of faith that our country can do a 180 in the next elections.
Posted by: Blake on March 11, 2006 3:47 AMSincerely,
Laura B.
Jerry, that seems to be a black-humor/joke letter to the Lakeville Journal. But we might learn from his/her style---displays a very appropriate "caution" in this era of Bush/Neocon/NSA/FBI interception/review/action on citizens' communications.
Posted by: Hoffmann on March 11, 2006 7:42 AMI should have included more of the letter, to make it clear that the guy wasn't kidding. Here it is, with only the real names changed:
…accidents happen. They do not change the basic person nor should they change your opinion of their worth.
Chris Matthews on MSNBC tried, like your slanted rag, to influence public opinion by repeatedly saying "buckshot" when referring to the pellets that struck Mr. Whittington. Even after being corrected by a woman on his show,he persisted.
Even Harry Whittington tried to defuse the situation with his concern for the vice president after he was released from the hospital. There's a class act.
Let's report the news, if you can, not make the news with inflammatory questions.
Incidentallly, the issue of Feb. 23 seemed to imply that the big news out of Sharon was new books at the library. I sort of lean toward my nephew Harry Burke's fire at his house that destroyed everything he owned, at least as a secondary story. It was ignored.
Louis W. Burke
Posted by: Jerry Doolittle on March 11, 2006 9:27 AM“Big Time” is even below the crazification factor, the political equivalent of the Mendoza line. The crazification factor is of course 27%, the percentage of votes received by Alan Keyes when he ran for Senator from Illinois, although he didn't live in Illinois until he decided to run for the Senate.
With Cheney polling two-thirds of the crazification factor, you gotta wonder what Bob Woodward is smoking as he continues to predict that Cheney will run for President.
Posted by: Chuck Dupree (Belisarius) on March 11, 2006 9:29 AMJerry.
I'd be very careful if I were you and start drinking bottled water, if you're not already.
Posted by: tstreet on March 11, 2006 9:59 AMThe letter rantor and "safe driver" (those who might have revealed his driving skills are no longer with us, or are too scared to talk) is probably a non-blog type; however, should he visit Bad Attitudes, this guy might even believe that Jerry is on his side.
Posted by: Hoffmann on March 11, 2006 2:17 PM…accidents happen. They do not change the basic person nor should they change your opinion of their worth.
Unfortunately, in Oily Dick's case.
Posted by: Doyle on March 11, 2006 2:41 PMSo what you're saying is, 18% of American voters have sustained major head injuries in car accidents, right?
Posted by: Shaula Evans on March 12, 2006 4:31 AMVery good, Shaula. I do wish I'd been the one who came up with that analysis.
Posted by: Joyful Alternative on March 12, 2006 3:20 PMI read a great line at another blog that I will share here:
"I'd rather hunt with Cheney than sleep with Hillary!" That would make a great bumper sticker, one I'd buy and slap on my Ford!
No Shaula, with most of them it's congenital.
Posted by: AlanDownunder on March 14, 2006 2:33 AM