The Cheny Affair

The self-important White House press corps is in full-throated outrage that they were not told about Cheney's hunting accident for some hours. Now the Democrats are joining in in an attempt to bring as much crap down on our Vice-President as they can. Most Americans do not feel it is any great crime to be involved in what was obviously an accidental shooting and they sure don't care if the press is ever informed about such matters. The esteem of this bunch is low and dropping. For the Democrats, however, they should avoid what could be a more serious shooting incident--i.e. one in which their collective foot is the victim. It would be easy for them to cause Cheney to decide to just resign and go back to Wyoming where fishing and hunting would be a welcome relief from all the Washington nonsense. Should this happen, the hapless Democrats would be faced with 3 years of a Vice-President (Condi Rice) who could well have presidential ambitions. They would be smart to let this drop.