from Maureen Dowd
Maureen Dowd:
Scott McClellan told the White House press corps that Katharine Armstrong, a
lobbyist with government ties who owns the Texas ranch (and whose mother,
Anne, was on the Halliburton board that hired Mr. Cheney as C.E.O.),
"pointed out that the protocol was not followed by Mr. Whittington when it
came to notifying the others that he was there."
As the story of the weekend's bizarre hunting accident is wrenched out of
the White House, the picture isn't pretty: With American soldiers dying in
Iraq, Five-Deferment Dick "I Had Other Priorities in the 60's Than Military
Service" Cheney gets his macho kicks gunning down little birds and the
occasional old man while W. rides his bike, blissfully oblivious to any
collateral damage. Shouldn't these guys work on weekends until we figure out
how to fix Iraq, New Orleans, Medicare and gas prices?