McClellan: Cheney's answered "all the big questions" (except beer-related)

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

McClellan ducks Cheney alcohol-related questions
Ron Brynaert
Published: February 16, 2006



http://rawstory.com/news/2005/WH_Cheney_answered_all_big_questions_0216.html

At today’s White House press briefing, Press Secretary Scott McClellan said that Vice President Dick Cheney answered "all the big questions" and that President Bush was "very satisfied." McClellan told the reporters early on in the conference that they could ask President Bush questions themselves later in the day, and that they should move on to the "substantive matters that mean the most from America."

For the first time since last week, questions about the Vice President's shooting incident and the failure to inform the public in what most view as a timely matter did not overwhelm the proceedings, and questions about the UN report on Gitmo and NSA spying were prominent.

When asked whether the Vice President's actions were a metaphor for the Bush Administration's "inability to come clean" such as the perceived "lack of cooperation" in the Abramoff scandal and Katrina investigations, McClellan responded that "only the most partisan of people or conspiracy theorists" would say something like that and that "most Americans reject it."

One reporter aggressively interrogated McClellan about Vice President's admission in the Fox interview that he had a beer four to five hours before shooting Harry Whittington. She said that it all wasn't "in a nice neat package like the White House wants," that "there was alcohol at lunch," that the Vice President's blood level wasn't checked at the time, and that he wasn't interviewed by local police until the following day. "I don’t think you characterized the full picture there," McClellan responded, " I believe most Americans believe the issue has been covered thoroughly. I reject this characterization."

:spray:

[graywarrior]

1. Scotty: Cheney's Mini-Me.

He's beginning the imploding stage. Dork.

[Missy M]

2. I resent that McClellan thinks he speaks for "most" Americans...

of what we believe or want to know. I am an American and I don't believe the story about the shootings, I don't believe what they tell us about Gitmo and I don't believe they have the right to spy on us without proper authority.

[global1]

4. McClellan Is Supposed To Speak For The pResident - Not The....

American people.

[rocktivity]

3. You're lookin' swell, Scotty, I can tell, Scotty...

:rofl:
rocknation

[Supersedeas]

5. Reject the reject.