So if it were not for the heroic hillbilly ramblings of a Texas ranch owner, it seems we would have never learned about Dicks little hunting accident.

I find it highly interesting that the first VP to shoot a guy since Hamiltion, decided to not tell anyone.

The White House said today that President Bush was informed Saturday evening that Vice President Dick Cheney had shot a fellow hunter in South Texas earlier in the day, although the news was not disclosed publicly until Sunday afternoon.

The shooting, which occurred at about 6:30 p.m. Eastern time, left a prominent Austin lawyer and Republican campaign supporter, Harry Whittington, wounded by shotgun pellets in the neck, shoulder and chest.

“Chief of Staff Andy Card called the president around 7:30 p.m. to inform him that there was a hunting accident,” a statement released today by the White House said. “He did not know the vice president was involved at that time. Subsequent to the call, Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with Mrs. Armstrong. He then called the president shortly before 8 p.m. to update him and let him know the vice president had accidentally shot Mr. Whittington.”

In a contentious news briefing with White House reporters earlier about a subject that captivated the capital today, Scott McClellan, the president’s spokesman, said he himself did not learn until about 6 a.m. on Sunday that it was Mr. Cheney who had shot Mr. Whittington, 78, when the two were on a weekend quail hunting trip along with several others at the Armstrong Ranch.

If it really did take them this long to figure out something this simple , “Holy shit Dick shot that guy in the face, call the Karl Rove!” You can see how it is impossible for them to do things like defend us from natural disasters and find Bin Laden… Time to vote kids, time to vote as many times as they will let you. New senate + new house = IMPEACHMENT FOR THESE ASSHOLES!

Katharine Armstrong said she did not coordinate with the vice president’s office before calling the Corpus Christi paper. If Armstrong had not made the call, it is not clear when, if ever, the vice president’s office would have told the public about the incident. Asked what would have happened if the accident had happened another way — if, for example, Whittington had accidentally shot the vice president — the administration source told NRO that it would have been handled in a similar fashion. “The priorities would have remained the same — first medical care, then law enforcement alert,” the source said. Still, in the case of Saturday’s shooting, those matters were taken care of on Saturday, and the press was still not notified until after Katharine Armstrong made the decision to call her local paper.

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PS. Dick didn’t even have his fucking hunting license when he shot that guy.

If you want to read the accident file here it is (pdf)