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Bad news today for Democrats.

Harry Whittington did not die, nor is he likely to, so their dreams of involuntary manslaughter charges against Vice President Dick Cheney will probably never come true.

This minor setback has not stopped them from trying to make this situation as bad as they can make it for the Vice President, the Bush Administration, and Republicans in general, though...

From All Headline News (Red Letter Edition)...

The former first lady [says]: "The refusal of this administration to level with the American people on matters large and small is very disturbing, because it goes counter to the way our constitutional democracy ... is supposed to work."
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid says the secretive tendency goes beyond Cheney, pervading the entire Bush White House.
"I think it's time the American people heard from the vice president, in a real meeting just like we're having here," says Reid, who called the George W. Bush presidency "the most secretive administration in modern history."

Hillary can't seem to recall the fact that her minions kept Law Enforcement Officials out of Vince Foster's office for 30 hours after his death, while they plundered his file cabinets for anything that might incriminate her, and she seems to have no knowledge of how the subpoenaed billing records for the Rose Law Firm spontaneously occured on her coffee table the moment that the Statute of Limitations ran out on the investigation...

Harry Reid, meanwhile, declined to explain his connections to Jack Abramoff's clients, or the letters he wrote on their behalf, and also failed to explain how his whole family has become rich through his manipulation of Government assets.

But REPUBLICANS are above the law, don'tcha know...

There is also a plethora of wild, tin-foil hat type conspiracy theories floating around, ranging from "Dick Cheney shot Whittington on purpose to send a message to Scooter Libby", to "Dick Cheney shot Whittington on purpose to redirect news coverage away from the Scooter Libby testimony", to "Dick Cheney was drunk at the time", to "Dick Cheney had his mistress along on the trip, so he delayed reporting the incident until he could stash her somewhere", to "this is an attempted Whitehouse Cover-up!!"

Well, if it was an attempted cover-up, it has to be the worst one in recorded history. There was a Police Report filed, the Secret Service witnessed the incident, the victim of the shooting was admitted to a hospital, and the owner of the ranch called the local newspaper.

The only thing that DIDN'T happen was that the Vice President didn't immediately alert the White House Press Corps, and hold a Press Conference for them so that they could brow-beat him on Television over it.

And I don't blame him. I wouldn't have either. I would have seen about my friend, done my job, and expected them to do theirs and not sit around eating donuts expecting to be spoon-fed every piece of news that they report.


In other news, it looks now like the Congressional Hearings into the President's "Super Top Secret NSA (No Such Agency) Domestic Wiretapping Spying Violation of the Privacy of All American Citizens Program" that the Democrats have been salivating about for the last month are not going to happen. (Thanks to Dick Cheney.) So I guess it's on to the next "Scandal Du Jour"...

I can't wait to find out what THAT will be...

I mean, God forbid that the Democrats should have to engage Republicans in the Arena of IDEAS...