How the White House and the Vice President's office are responding to Cheney's accidental shooting of his hunting companion twenty times sure speaks a lot about this White House, doesn't it? It says everything. Delay, obfuscation, defensiveness, the man responsible too cowardly, having so little character, to make a statement. The Vice President's office had the gall to release a statement about Cheney not having a proper license to hunt quail, but he hasn't released a statement to explain what happened when he shot someone repeatedly and to apologize once again to the family? What a guy.

Update:

At the White House, Mr. Cheney made no statement on Monday and remained out of public view. At the beginning of a meeting with Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations, Mr. Bush laughingly told Mr. Cheney that reporters would later enter the room; the vice president left before the journalists arrived.

And the lobbyists witnesses that Karl Rove put forward to talk about the case? They of course are in perfect agreement that it was Mr. Cheney's victim who was at fault:

Ms. Armstrong and Ms. Willeford said the accident was largely the fault of Mr. Whittington, who had reappeared alongside two of his hunting companions without giving proper warning. Mr. Cheney, who was carrying a 28-gauge shotgun, had already begun to fire and sprayed Mr. Whittington.

"He got peppered pretty good," Ms. Armstrong said. "He fell with his head toward me." She said she ran over to Mr. Whittington, who had fallen, but stayed out of the way while Secret Service agents tended to him.

"There was some bleeding, but it wasn't horrible," she said. "He was more bruised."

Ms. Willeford, whose husband was also at the ranch, said in an interview after visiting the victim at the hospital that Mr. Whittington accepted responsibility for the accident. "He understands that he could have handled it better," Ms. Willeford said. "Harry should have let us know he was back there."

Posted by Laura at February 13, 2006 10:22 PM