Dick Cheney: No Fish Left Behind, Or Alive

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WP, Achenblog, by Joel Achenbach
Dick Cheney: No Fish Left Behind, Or Alive

....His Secret Service code name is Angler, because he likes nothing better than to put on his waders and stand in a crystal clear mountain stream with a rod and reel and a few sticks of dynamite.

Gnawin' on a little home-made spotted owl jerky.

Dreamin' of that retirement home with the lovely view of the strip mine.

He'll be there pretty soon: Putterin' around the yard, setting leg traps for coyotes and the neighbor's cats. Always with the canister of DDT in the hip-holster. Clearing brush with the flamethrower and the napalm.

Planning those RV trips to Yucca Mountain.

"Because of Cheney's intervention, the government reversed itself and let the water flow in time to save the 2002 growing season, declaring that there was no threat to the fish. What followed was the largest fish kill the West had ever seen, with tens of thousands of salmon rotting on the banks of the Klamath River."

Cheney read that passage this morning (in the Washington Post series about him) and thought, "They make it sound like that's bad."...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/achenblog/2007/06/dick_cheney_shoots_fish_in_bar.html?hpid=topnews