Cheney accepts responsibility for shooting accident

Via Fox News:

NEW YORK — Vice President Dick Cheney said he and he alone was responsible for a weekend hunting accident in which he shot Austin attorney Harry Whittington.

“Ultimately I’m the guy who pulled the trigger, that fired the round that hit Harry,” Cheney said in his first interview since the incident. “I’m the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend, and that’s something I’ll never forget.

Cheney’s first public response following his accidental shooting of a man in the face comes more than 72 hours after it occurred. The interview will be broadcast on “Special Report With Brit Hume” at 6 p.m. EST.

Cheney’s radio silence following the Saturday shooting was met by bewilderment and anger in Washington. But on Wednesday, the vice president seemed to express deep remorse.

“The image of him falling is something I will never be able to get out my mind,” Cheney said, somberly. “It was one of the worst days of my life.”

Cheney also filled in some of the blanks of what happened that Saturday evening in south Texas, details of which have been sketchy so far. Self-described hunting and gun experts have been weighing in to blame Cheney for not looking before he shot, blame Whittington for not announcing his presence, or both.

Earlier this week, White House spokesman Scott McClellan implied that Whittington did not follow hunting protocol. On Wednesday, the vice president made clear that he took all the blame.

“It was not Harry’s fault,” he said. “You cannot blame anybody else.”

59 Responses to "Cheney accepts responsibility for shooting accident"

Ike says:

February 15, 2006 at 3:35 pm

How long until his quotes are taken out of context by partisan blogs on totally different subjects?

Anyone willing to take a wager?
tommy in nyc says:

February 15, 2006 at 3:55 pm

if he was really sorry he cut a check to victims of gun violence in American inner cities.
CHOW says:

February 15, 2006 at 3:56 pm

Well the man did the mans thing and took responsibility. Of course this is something which the left cannot comprahend so it will obviously be missed by them all.
mahowel says:

February 15, 2006 at 4:00 pm

How long until his quotes are taken out of context by partisan blogs on totally different subjects?

Anyone willing to take a wager?

Comment by Ike @ 2/15/2006 – 3:35 pm

I’ll take 30 seconds for $5 bucks
mahowel says:

February 15, 2006 at 4:03 pm

f he was really sorry he cut a check to victims of gun violence in American inner cities.

Comment by tommy in nyc @ 2/15/2006 – 3:55 pm

To help with their crack supply?
steve says:

February 15, 2006 at 4:18 pm

Cheney, Mr. Whittington, Ms. Armstrong and Pamela Willeford: could this be a Monica Lewinsky moment? Was Cheney wearing the blue dress? Peace
Severian says:

February 15, 2006 at 4:40 pm

“if he was really sorry he cut a check to victims of gun violence in American inner cities.”

Careful Tommy, you’re giving Steve a run for the money in the lame, inane, and insane moonbat race.
Leaning Straight Up says:

February 15, 2006 at 4:51 pm

Cheney: ‘I’m the Guy Who Pulled the Trigger’

Cheney speaks out.
Derrick says:

February 15, 2006 at 5:03 pm

Hey, about time somebody in this Administration took responsibility for something, even though it has to be shooting your friend in the face with a shotgun.
libertarianobserver says:

February 15, 2006 at 5:05 pm

note the difference between Dick “it’s my fault and I take responsibility” Cheney and Billy “I did NOT have sex with that woman…Ms. Lewinsky” Clinton. Nice illustration of the difference between conservatives and so-called “progressives.”
benning says:

February 15, 2006 at 6:37 pm

Good for Cheney.

steve, grow up. Reality
Mwalimu Daudi says:

February 15, 2006 at 7:47 pm

WEDNESDAY 2/15/06 UPDATE: As of 7:46 PM EST the body count still remains Ted Kennedy 1 Veep 0.
andrew says:

February 15, 2006 at 9:47 pm

“”It was not Harry’s fault” he said. “You cannot blame anybody else.””

So everyone blaming harrington can go stuff it. The Dick said do.
Severian says:

February 15, 2006 at 9:55 pm

Both of them were at fault, but Cheney did what a man of character does, take the blame for his actions. I know that this is something you, as a liberal democrat, are unused to seeing andrew, but there it is. If Bubba, or Al Gore, had been in this situation, they’d still be blaming everyone and everything else, including the gun. Kerry has shown how big a man he is by blaming the Secret Service for his own clumsiness. He couldn’t even act like a man over a little thing like falling off a bike or getting crossed up on skis, if it was something really serious just imagine the whining and blame game.

BTW, you seem to have no problem acceptng Cheney’s word at face value, but only when it supports whatever prejudiced viewpoint you already have. Given the way you respond to any and everything else Cheney or this administration says, it’s hypocritical of you to accept this. Cheney saying it’s his fault should elicit the result of you not believing it, Cheney, the evil dark lord of Haliburton, said it, that means it must be false!

Geez, make up your mind will you?
CZ says:

February 16, 2006 at 12:20 pm

I would like to support Cheney and forgive him on this shooting debacle but I cannot. He should lose his right to participate in hunting and all shooting sports for years.

As a bird hunter for over fourty years this incident makes our activity and those of us who participate in it look bad.

His carelessness almost cost a life.This was not an unintentional accident, it was stupidity and carelessness.

What really makes me sick is how bird hunting is being misrepresented throughout the media and blogosphere. The lefties have suddenly become experts on hunting gamebirds, firearms, and balistics.

Jackals.
Baklava says:

February 16, 2006 at 12:33 pm

CZ wrote, “He should lose his right to participate in hunting and all shooting sports for years

There were 89 hunting accidents in Texas alone this last year. If that is how the other 89 incidents were handled that is what I’s support as well. I support a non-obsessive, non-double-standard, fair approach towards this matter.
DC says:

February 16, 2006 at 12:51 pm

Glad to see the support Cheney is getting. As for the portrayal of bird hunters in a bad light, well…Please don’t tell us it is a sport…OK…Lethal Weapon..Unarmed Prey…No stake in outcome except whether you kill or not…come on…you can’t possibly be this big of a wimp…or can you/they..Hunting is the ultimate wimp sport of our time…It is time it is recognized for what it is…
PCD says:

February 16, 2006 at 1:14 pm

tommy, you just have to solicit funds for yourself out of tragedy, don’t you. Typical Democrat, can’t pass up an opportunity to redistribute someone else’s wealth.
tommy in nyc says:

February 16, 2006 at 1:38 pm

it’s called being charitable PCD. You know the money should come out of his own checking account not the governments. Heck I wouldn’t even mind if it helped finance gun safety awareness. I’m only in favor of limilted gun control man.
PCD says:

February 16, 2006 at 2:13 pm

tommy, for you is is being greedy.

Now, you really look unprincipled when you call for Cheney to share his wealth, but you’ve never called on Ted Kennedy to share his. Not only are the Kennedy trust funds set up off shore and funded with liquor import royalties, but I don’t even think you know the facts of how Mary Kopechne died and how Teddy bought his way out of the klink. Oh, and Teddy didn’t report to the press EVER. That’s over 35 years, tommy, that Teddy has been hiding the truth.

The Whole Chappaquiddick Story, What Kennedy and Democrats don’t want you to know.

Read this and tell me if you realize how your little Socialist call to share the wealth looks in comparison to your silence on Ted Kennedy.
tommy in nyc says:

February 16, 2006 at 2:22 pm

Look PCD Kennedy is a moonbat and a crook Everyone knows that bro.
PCD says:

February 16, 2006 at 2:31 pm

tommy, so if you were principled, you’d have called for Kennedy to redistribute his wealth and to suffer the full penalties of his actions, not give him a pass and take partisan shots at Cheney.
andrew says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:19 pm

“Both of them were at fault, but Cheney did what a man of character does, take the blame for his actions.”

So, does whittington not have character? Are we to think that Cheney was not telling the truth when he said it was hist fault?
steve says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:29 pm

Anyone making $125,000 or more should be taxed at 100% on every penny over $125,000. That doesn’t impact anyone on this blog, right? And all property over $1,000,000 should be taxed at 100% at your death. Peace
Severian says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:37 pm

Hey andrew, in case you haven’t noticed it, no one has asked Whittington his opinion of the incident, he’s still in the hospital. Which is a good thing, if he weren’t someplace he could be kept safe some liberal would probably try and help him along towards mortality in order to make this a fatal accident, which is what many on the left are still hoping for. I expect, if he were to comment on it, he’d try and take the blame for it to deflect critism from his friend. You once again completely miss the point, but that’s not surprising. You don’t believe Cheney on anything else, why do you believe him on this?
Severian says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:40 pm

“That doesn’t impact anyone on this blog, right?”

Speak for yourself steve, some of us here are that successful, or, as most conservatives will agree, hope to see ourselves that successful in the future. We have the innate optimism in the US dream that the liberals have abandoned years ago. Just because liberals have a victim mentality doesn’t mean we do. Also, whether or not any of us makes over that amount is irrevelant, we aren’t into the bash the “rich” and punish them for being more successful than us mantra the left supports.
andrew says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:46 pm

“ou once again completely miss the point, but that’s not surprising. You don’t believe Cheney on anything else, why do you believe him on this?”

I don’t believe him. I think he’s just saying it to be nice. Without believing him, I’ve decided that gun control means hitting your target. And cheney needs some gun control
Baklava says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:49 pm

Steve, your 3:29 post makes it VERY clear you haven’t read Road to Serfdom as I’ve recommended. Nor do you understand the Laffer Curve.

Nor do you understand that removing income over $125,000 would penalize people who produce or work hard or took a risk and started a business and nobody would EVER earn more than that $125,000 because that effort/risk/work would be fruitless. Since nobody would ever earn more than $125,000 guess what? The amount of revenue into the government for people earning over $125,000 would go to $0 after that first year. Tell me what purpose it would serve to have the government receive less revenue due to the change in behavior of people to be more slack, work less, take less risks, etc.

The only thing it would do is drive up the deficit as the government would have less revenues, make more people depend on the government as those people who used to earn a lot and therefore spend a lot would not spend a lot and thefefore LESS GOODS AND SERVICES would be purchased and therefore companies would not need to PRODUCE AS MUCH GOODS AND SERVICES and therefore people would be laid off/fired and therefore more people would need government to provide benefits.

Seems your solutions always cause pain, shedding of blood, suffering, more poverty, more dependence, more death and you don’t understand that your solutions cause this because you can’t think past what would happen if you utilized your solutions. THEN ON TOP OF IT ALL, you attack others who actually ahve better solutions than you!!!!
Severian says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:50 pm

So, andrew, you don’t believe Cheney is at fault, but it’s still his fault…oooookay, got it!
PCD says:

February 16, 2006 at 3:52 pm

If Whittington should die, I expect no more that a suspended sentence to a minor crime for Cheney. After all, that is what happened when Drunken Ted killed Kopechne. Fair is fair, or is it?
sanity says:

February 16, 2006 at 4:43 pm

Baklava,

Don’t forget that Charities will take a very hard hit also.
Baklava says:

February 16, 2006 at 5:02 pm

Sanite me,

Shoot if I mentioned every adverse effect of placing a 100% tax on income over $125,000 I’d be writing a 100 page book and ST would throw me off.

But it is important to understand that there would be many adverse effects and more people in poverty would be the result and less revenue to the goverment would be the result (even though the government would be depended on more) so that would be a double whammy set of problems.

On the tax side of the equation, people who make over $125,000 in income already pay over 50% of the income taxes and wiping that revenue off the table would result in 50% of government revenues being wiped away.

Since nobody would be earning over $125,000 charities would take the largest hit as during recessions/depressions people will tighten their own belts to make sure their own families are covered financially through the long haul. This may result in a 90% reduction of giving to charities in a time when charities would be depended on more.

The only purpose I see in the whole exercise is that liberals/socialists would be able to concretely see the adverse effects of their policies. But I’m not sure why they’d see it even then because they aren’t able to work through their reading comprehension and Economics 101 issues now.
sanity says:

February 16, 2006 at 5:02 pm

Ah, lets not forget investments.

Steves idea would force alot of companies to move out of the death of america tax he proposes.

If you really want to make a sweeping change, a flat tax should be initiated across the board, and then get rid or cut down the IRS.

Say Anything Blog I think has a good point:

Oh, lord help us! You can not simply tax the rich. The rich would find ways to (1) Shelter their money, or (2) leaving the country. Either way they will not be investing it into businesses which provide jobs and (currently) more tax revenue.

Too many in this country think that the Government of the US is what makes the US great. They’re wrong!!! It’s the free enterprise that generates the finest standard of living in the world!

For additional excellent read, try The Future of an Illusion: Kerry’s Tax Policy

Here is a little portion of that idea:

“As if by magic”

In May of 1894, when Britain adopted the first progressive tax rates, the London Times astutely observed:

Single out the big and moderately big properties for attack, and very soon, as if by magic, they will begin to evade you and disappear, as all things in the world very reasonably do when they are singled out for attack. Even the half starved crow will not wait to be continuously shot at.

I invite you to read that, it might help you open your eyes more to heavy handed taxes and what will happen.
Baklava says:

February 16, 2006 at 5:13 pm

It’s like what happened when the luxury tax on boats and cars over $30,000 was implemented. Less revenue came into the government during the couple year period that it was implemented because not many people wanted to buy the products that made them pay more in taxes. The government got less revenue and there was more dependence on the government because WORKERS who made these cars and boats were laid off due to a sales slump. Created more problems including poverty. Probably had more blood shed to as people probably had luxury cars/boats stolen/robbed.
sanity says:

February 16, 2006 at 8:06 pm

Man Shot In Accident After Laughing At Cheney

(AP) LAFAYETTE, Colo. Hours after laughing about Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting mishap, Josh Kayser was himself shot by a friend during a hunting expedition.

The 21-year-old Lafayette man was taken to the hospital Monday night after his girlfriend accidentally shot him while they were trailing a raccoon that had been preying on chickens on his family’s property.

“I read that thing about the vice president and said to myself ‘how can you shoot your friend with your gun?’ And look what happened,” he said Tuesday.

Kayser was crouched down to look under a shed where he thought a wounded raccoon was hiding, and his 17-year-old girlfriend accidentally shot him with a .22-caliber rifle. Police have not identified the girlfriend.

LINK
Baklava says:

February 16, 2006 at 8:12 pm

There must’ve been a motive. Or she was drunk. Where was she aiming?
steve says:

February 16, 2006 at 8:16 pm

It is not in your interest to support the monied class. Investment capital does not come from savings it comes from already accumulated wealth. Today the Chinese supply our investment capital which we borrow for our National Debt and pay $237 billion a year in interest payments to keep. Do any of you know what % of the population makes over$125,000? Here is a hint: 90% of you will never make that amount. If a CEO is making $4 million a year and everything over $125,000 is taxed, that would put more money into the treasury, right? The time has arrived for the pyramid to be inverted and for the lower 50%, to make at minimum $50,000 per year per worker. Peace
Severian says:

February 16, 2006 at 10:15 pm

Hey steve, you should try being a merchant of death, working for the evil civilian defense industry. It pays pretty well..
Baklava says:

February 16, 2006 at 10:36 pm

It is not in your interest to support [reducing government revenues and expanding the population of people in poverty]. Investment capital capital ~~does not~~ come[s] from savings, it comes from accumulated wealth and income [that is given to mutual funds/stocks]. Today the Chinese supply [only a portion of] our investment capital ~~which we borrow for our national debt~~[We] pay $237 billion a year in interest payments [and will pay more if we reduce government revenues by implementing Steve’s solution].

Steve asked, “Do any of you know what % of the population makes over $125,00” Yes Steve. That would be 10% of the population.

Steve continued with his class warfare rhetoric and socialist language by saying , “90% of you will never make that amount

What Steve didn’t get is that if the U.S. rewrites the tax code so that everything over $125,000 is taxed at a 100%, there would not be a CEO making $4 million a year because WHO would want to take the risk or work that hard or invest time or sell enogh to make anything more than $125,000 when it is only to be confiscated from them?

This is not an attack on you Steve but my daughters who are 6 and 9 understand this simple concept.

You asked the simple question, “that would put more money into the treasurey right?” Answer: No. Please read about the Laffer curve. Please understand what happened when the luxury tax on autos and boats over $30,000 was implemented. This is a SIMPLE concept with history to back up the concept.

The last part of your paragraph talked about workers making a minmum of $50,000 but you fail to recognize that business/corporations would be producing LESS goods and services because LESS goods and services would be bought if people were making less (or it was confiscated) and if businesses/corporations would be producing LESS they would need less labor Steve. That = less people employed Steve. That means less people making money and more people earning less.

The time has arrived for people to grow up and THINK about the solutions they talk about and understand Economics 101 so they can realize the results of their said policies.

Even more peace and prosperity and less suffering and poverty.
Big Bang Hunter says:

February 17, 2006 at 3:23 am

– Instead of bothering to explain economics, or the obvious truth of Laffers curves that a 6 year old could understand, I just explain the typical Liberal economic credo in modern terms. To wit:

“….From each according to his gullibility…To each according to his sloth…”

– Bang
steve says:

February 17, 2006 at 10:21 am

Hasn’t it always been more machines and fewer people? Isn’t that the object of the excercise? That’s why they call all technology, labor savings devices, right? Once the American workers make a liveable wage, those jobs are shipped to countries paying a dollar a day, aren’t they? The Laffer Curve Theory has been held in disrepute for 10 + years and will only be resurrected when pigs fly. Peace
Big Bang Hunter says:

February 17, 2006 at 11:35 am

“The Laffer Curve Theory has been held in disrepute for 10 + years and will only be resurrected when pigs fly.”

– In the heart of Berkeley maybe. The Laffer premise is very simple Steve. Even you should be able to grasp it with a little effort. It simply states that when you draw a curve of Revenue versus tax rate it starts on the left origin at zero, curves upward to a maximum of 50% and back down to zero at 100%. If anyone actually has to explain “why” to you your best bet is to limit your financial dealings to purchasing your next bag of Ganza.

– BTW Stevie, lest you get your hopes up that you can even actually approach 50%, history shows that generally when the tax rate goes much over about 40% on the middle class, (the people who actually pay over 90% of the taxes already, not the disadvantaged like you seem to think), things erupt into a civil war. Which I assume from your asocial posts you would love. I don’t think you want peace as much as you would really love mob rule. “Liberty”

– Bang
Baklava says:

February 17, 2006 at 12:33 pm

Steve at 10:21 took it upon himself to not understand cause and effect and evaded what was conveyed to him with no more evidence.

Bang,

So far the solutions I see Steve wants to implement would cause bloodshed, death, poverty, dependency, suffering, pain, hardship, and an inability for this country to give a tenth of the aid we currently give other countries.

The concepts are simple enough for my children (again not attacking you Steve) but I wonder if it is either a) you don’t try to understand messages conveyed to you or b) you try but don’t understand.

I believe it is a) because you have not addressed ONE thing that anyone has written you. It’s as if they haven’t written you.
Severian says:

February 17, 2006 at 1:08 pm

Baklava, expecting any form of rationality from steve is just misoverestimating him…
steve says:

February 17, 2006 at 3:42 pm

Fact: After the tax cut of 2001, revenue from the federal income tax dropped from $994 billion to $809 billion in 2004, even though the economy was growing. That means, Hunter, that you are just flat wrong about what Laffer’s Curve actually shows in real life. In addition using only my $50,000 single earner income floor, tax rates would be zero(0) for incomes under $50,000. That would include about 60% of today’s wage and salary earners. Under the over $125,000, 100% tax proposal, only the wealthist Americans would be taxed and that is how it should be. They can take one less vacation to St. Moritz or to Texas, shooting birds each year. Peace
Big Bang Hunter says:

February 17, 2006 at 3:53 pm

– Steves agenda is bourne from the frustration that some people have at that defining moment in their lives when they find out the simple truth, that there is no free lunch. We have a system that depends on individual initiative, which some lack to be sure, but thats not even the Liberals problem. In this world you have the choice of working hard or trying to use your brain to skate. Those that work hard are not always rewarded approprietly. Thats the aspect of life Steve and his friends really can’t accept. All things being equal, you still might fail. There is a certain amount of luck involved. They hate that. They blame that imperfection on our system, and way of life, because in their eyes you have to demonize something tangible in order to skew the system, otherwise you can’t change the equation to what they really want; Governmental nannystateism from cradle to grave. They can’t get around the realities of life, so the target the most visable scapgoat. They blame and blame and blame some more, trying to twist the dialog and reframe the reality to affect change. The real fly in their ointment, such as it is, is not so much the unwillingness to accept that lifes not perfect. The real flaw is thinking that Utopian communistic ideas can ever work. The world doesn’t change for a second just because you wish it would, True changes, for better or worse, evolve with time. For now, our way of life and our Government approach seems, to be the best we can do, the best anyone has ever done on the world stage. It affords the greatest opportunity to the largest number of people, and freedoms that no other people in the world enjoy. Could it be better. Yes. Will it be improved. Yes. Is it not a panancea. Democracy, in the for5m of our Representative republic is still an experiment, which for some 200+ years, seems to have worked pretty well, where so many other forms of governance have failed across the globe. But the Liberals are an impatient lot, so rather than work positively within the system, they seek to tear everything down and replace it with a system that has failed on countless occassions already in history. But for frustrated people the truth seldom serves to deflate their anger, so they press on. Hope, and sadly sometimes its ever present twin, denial, springs all to easily in some peoples minds. Fortunately age and wisdom generally overcomes the anger of youth, and realities are accepted, as well as the law of unintended conscequences, which head strong activists simply tend to ignore, causing even more problems and suffering. One nice thing about accepting lifes many truths is it lets you deal and really contribute more than just words and emotion.

– Bang
Baklava says:

February 17, 2006 at 4:00 pm

Fact: During the recession that started mid year of 2000 and extended through 2002 (which was ended quickly due to the tax cuts), revenues into the government decreased. Why? Because corporations/businesses/individuals had less income/profit to pay taxes on. That is what happens during a recession that was not caused by the tax cuts of 2001 and 2003 but in fact the economy was boosted by the tax cuts. When people are able to keep more of their own money that gives them more money that they can save or spend. When they spend they BUY MORE GOODS AND SERVICES and that means that businesses have to supply more goods and services and it means that businesses have to hire more to provide those goods and services. When the economy improves (due to those tax cuts) there is more profits and income and the government gets more revenues as exampled STEVE by the 14.1% increase in government revenues last year.

Do you Steve recognize that there was a 14% improvement in revenues and do you recognize that there was NOT a 14% income tax rate hike? Do you recognize that the amount of revenues is linked ENTIRELY to how the economy is doing and not due to the tax rate. The tax rate simply influences how well the economy does. The exact WRONG thing to do during a recession would’ve been to raise tax rates as that would’ve hurt the economy during the recession even more. Do you understand that Steve?

Steve without understanding wrote, “In addition using only my $50,000 single earner income floor

Why not make it $100,000? Everyone earns enough to live! Yeah. This is simple economics 101 Steve but if by decree everyone earned no less than $50,000 then inflation would jump that year and $50,000 would not buy as much as it used to. Then what make a decree for $60,000? This isn’t hard to understand but for some it is. I was in a debate in 1992 with a guy in the Navy who thought everyone should just earn $90,000 (I’m not sure why he chose that number). To illustrate my point I said, wow, then everyone could afford a Lexus right? He said yes. So the demand for Lexi would skyrocket and therefore Lexi would cost more or only the first few thousand customers would get one and nobody else would. Everyone would want a luxury car. Well people would NOT settle for that. People would offer more and more for their car so they could be the one to get their car. EVerything would cost more to the point that things were AGAIN out of their price range and it would happen quickly. THis is SIMPLE Steve. Very simple. Prices reflect what the market would bear. What people would pay for goods and services simply doesn’t get erased.

You may think you mean well but your solutions would cause poverty, hardship, less government revenue, bloodshed, pain, suffering. I’m sorry you don’t see it but maybe someday you will.
Baklava says:

February 17, 2006 at 4:02 pm

You said it better Bang! (I’ve always wanted to use that emoticon)
Big Bang Hunter says:

February 17, 2006 at 4:21 pm

– Well see now you’re throwing around facts and reality Bak, so you’re going to be hated immediaetly by the “elitists”. They reject the free market, supply and demand. Products and services will just somehow magically appear with no need for incentives. People will go out and work hard just for the hell of it. The old Marxist saw “from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs”, which in a perfect world would no doubt work fine. That we don’t live in a perfect world can’t penetrate the Liberal mind, anymore than I could ever get my “artist” ex-wife to understand that the 30 parking tickets she’d aquired over the years and jammed in the car glove compartment, was really more than just an annoying distraction. Liberals find true enlightenment when they give up all the daydreaming and look around at the realities of the world. Short of that you’re wasting you time.

– Bang
Baklava says:

February 17, 2006 at 4:38 pm

They can reject the free market, supply and demand all they want but unless they take approaches as mentioned in the Road to Serfdom and by leaders who were Marxist a lot of death and struggle will have to occur before a government or portion of the population tries to impose no market forces or no supply and demand. It is the reason communism and marxism causes so much death is that it has to be something imposed on the dominated because it isn’t palatable for people like me who want to succeed/exceed and provide a better standard of living for my family. It is not acceptable for me to not care, not work harder, not have initiative or have initiative and work hard and yet earn the same as some schlepp on a hammock. It burns me up when I see state workers next to me sleeping and doing nothing all day but I’m bouncing around from task to task accomplishing and caring. That state worker is my tax dollars going to that person as a welfare type program. Market forces should apply in government services as well in some fashion.

Bang wrote, “Products and services will just somehow magically appear with no need for incentives. ” Yeah people will just invent, start companies, take risks, spend hours trying to find a cure for a disease to meet the demand for a cure for a disease all for nothing. There will be no prosperity and no suffering because as the Marxists thinks everyone will be taken care of, yet the marxist doesn’t understand human nature and why this country is so prosperous. Prosperity to the communist/socialist is evil and needs to be redistributed as much as possible. Unfortunately for the communist/socialist they don’t understand WHAT THE RESULTS of said policy would be.
Big Bang Hunter says:

February 17, 2006 at 4:42 pm

– Oh and while we’re on the subject that ‘bbbaaaaaadddd’ tax cut that ChimpyBushMcHitler and his ‘evil neocon’ admin had to force down the throats of the obstructionist Democrats, and resulted directly in stimulating the economy so well that unemployement is at an alltime record low in many states and overall across the entire country, annnnnddd yeilded that 14% revenue increase was the very reason that the Republican congress, in partnership with Bush, could increse entitlement programs to an all time high of 392 billion, exceeding anything Clinton ever did by some 87%, EVEN AFTER inflation really sucks, according to the looney desperate left. But you know….Its the perception that counts and not the realities for the Liberals. Talk enough bad, loud enough and long enough, and maybe someone will believe you. Cite a few isolated pockets of hardship, and ignore the record number of people living better than ever. Find any exceptions you can use to misrepresent the greater truths. Thats the way the left plays the game.

– Bang
mahowel says:

February 17, 2006 at 4:50 pm

Anyone making $125,000 or more should be taxed at 100% on every penny over $125,000. That doesn’t impact anyone on this blog, right? And all property over $1,000,000 should be taxed at 100% at your death. Peace

Comment by steve @ 2/16/2006 – 3:29 pm

Ahhh, that warm feeling that communism brings to my heart.
Big Bang Hunter says:

February 17, 2006 at 5:01 pm

– Since give-aways are the lifeblood pre-eminent political holy grail for the left, when you look at the real situation they have a very big problem. That hateful Bush has managed to do a btter job of it than they ever have. It must be hell at times these days, being on the left.

– I so hope Condi wins in 2008 just so I can watch McCauliffes head explode on FOX…..

BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA….

– ‘scuse…. lost my composure for a moment… heh h-h-heh he-heh….

– Bang
sanity says:

February 17, 2006 at 5:19 pm

Whittington makes Statement from hospital
Link
Big Bang Hunter says:

February 17, 2006 at 6:14 pm

– Well with the “victim” himself going front and center, and “apologizing” for the trouble the accident has caused Cheney and his family, I guess that pretty much sends this opportunity for “perception bending” by the moonbats and the Royalty press completely out the window. Notice the timing: perfectly with the VP and presidents speeches today. Damn that Rove is good.

– Gear for hunting party including 28 gauge, plow boots, orange jacket, pocket flask and GPS unit – $1200….

– 5 days of moonbat lunacy and Regal elite Liberal press public whine-a-thon – priceless….

– Wonder if RemCo will follow up with a “Cheney “A” team great white hunter” action figure….

– Bang
steve says:

February 17, 2006 at 7:53 pm

Why is bush trying to sell our major seaports to the UAE? Not enough taxes going into the treasury to cover the costs of his illegal war in Iraq? Peace
sanity says:

February 18, 2006 at 12:56 am

Bring out your Celebrity Quotes:

Latest one is Alec Baldwin saying Cheney is a Terrorist…

Read more I have compiled here:
Celebrity Quotes
Church and State says:

February 18, 2006 at 3:19 pm

My Liberal Translation of Whttington’s Speech

Hmmph. Hello, losers.
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