There is something fowl about the whole Dick Cheney incident last weekend. When I first heard he had been Quayle hunting, I was pleased. I, too, have been wondering what happened to our former vice president since he flew the coup in 1992. But then I realized they were quail hunting.
This type of news is not the kind of thing a lame-duck president like Bush wants to hear, with the vultures in the press pecking away at him. Why was Cheney so slow in hatching the story? I don’t think it was because he was chicken. I suspect Cheney was trying to get all his ducks in a row before reporting the story. Nevertheless, he laid an egg. He would have been better off getting the story out and then winging it from there.
Predictably the Democrats have flocked to this story in their endless effort to pigeonhole Bush and Cheney as liars. Since Republicans tried to tar and feather Clinton, Democrats figured what is good for the goose is good for the gander. What a bunch of quacks. You would think they would realize people are put off by their Chicken Little antics, but they seem to have their heads buried in the sand. I don’t think this story has wings. I may be eating crow later, but I suspect Cheney will rise again like a phoenix from the ashes.
There is still one aspect of this story that intrigues me, though. Why haven’t we heard anything from Senator Byrd?
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