Tim Grieve: WH would probably RATHER focus on Dead Eye Dick this week

[BurtWorm]

;)

http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2006/02/13/other/index.html?source=war_room.rss

Cheney shoots, but there's other news to blow away

Here's the odd thing about the White House decision not to go public with news that Dick Cheney had shot a man: All things considered, it's a better story for the White House than some of the others that might be getting attention today:

Hurricane Katrina: As the New York Times is reporting, Republicans in the House of Representatives are about to release a "blistering" report on the Bush administration's response to Katrina. In the report, 11 Republicans say that the administration slowed the evacuation of New Orleans by ignoring an early report of a levee break -- a report the White House initially claimed not to have had. "If this is what happens when we have advance warning, we shudder to imagine the consequences when we do not," says a draft of the report. "Four and a half years after 9/11, America is still not ready for prime time."

Iraq: In what's being described as a victory for Muqtada al-Sadr and a setback for the Bush administration, Shiites selected Ibrahim Jafari as their nominee to become Iraq's prime minister. Even before the vote, Nebaska Sen. Chuck Hagel -- a Republican -- was raining on the Bush administration's parade of progress. Three years into the war, Hagel said, "things haven't gone the way the administration said and others said it was going to go. In fact, I think we’re in more trouble today than we've ever been in Iraq."


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<And that's just the tip of the iceberg!>

[marmar]

1. Agreed...

As silly as the whole gun fiasco makes them look, it's far less substantive than the other dramas swirling around them.

[savemefromdumbya]

2. More interesting than the 'Runaway Bride' though!

you would think that cheney would lie low right now

[dysfunctional press]

3. so- dick knew EXACTLY what he was doing

"...Harry- you're just gonna have to take one for the team."

BLAM!