How Scary is Dick Cheney?

So scary that when he shoots someone, the victim apologizes to HIM! Josh Marshall preserves the headline for all eternity here.

The words of Marshall, who is not at all impressed by Cheney's strong and measured reaction to the shooting 'nonsense':

Even if Dick Cheney is blameless in this matter in any deep moral sense, let's not forget that his immediate reaction was to send out his surrogates to publicly blame what happened on the victim.

Actually, that may afford him too much credit since it wasn't actually his 'immediate' reaction. It was his considered reaction after the 24 hour cooling off period he gave himself between the shooting and when he chose to make it public.

By my count, he continued to have his public surrogates blame Whittington for fully three days. He only relented and took responsibility himself when the public and no doubt private political clamor became too much to sustain.

That's Dick Cheney.

Hell of a way to characterize a VP, don't you think? The truth hurts!