Cheney's Response A Concern In GOP

Let me make sure I understand this.

 

The GOP is concerned with Cheney's lack of response, now? After what is being billed as a hunting accident? 

 

But they weren't concerned at all about Cheney's role in taking the nation to war on lies; lies he is still telling, by the way?

 

They aren't concerned that he is accused of ordering classified information to be leaked to the press, when he finds it politically useful?

 

They aren't concerned that he may well be responsible for the end of the career of a woman who specialized in WMD, and, as it turns out, was working specifically on WMD in Iran?

 

What is wrong with this picture?

 

 

By Jim VandeHei and Peter Baker

Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, February 15, 2006; Page A01

Vice President Cheney's slow and unapologetic public response to the accidental shooting of a 78-year-old Texas lawyer is turning the quail-hunting mishap into a political liability for the Bush administration and is prompting senior White House officials to press Cheney to publicly address the issue as early as today, several prominent Republicans said yesterday.

The Republicans said Cheney should have immediately disclosed the shooting Saturday night to avoid even the suggestion of a cover-up and should have offered a public apology for his role in accidentally shooting Harry Whittington, a GOP lawyer from Austin. Whittington was hospitalized Saturday night in Corpus Christi, Tex., and was moved back into the intensive-care unit after suffering an abnormal heart rhythm yesterday morning.

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