FT: Mid-term hunting trip suggests Cheney prefers duck shooting to lame duck future

[maddezmom]

Published: November 11 2006 02:00 | Last updated: November 11 2006 02:00

Earlier this year, Dick Cheney, US vice-president, accidentally shot a friend in the face during a hunting trip. On mid-term election day he made a similarly in your face gesture. Showing supreme indifference to his public image, he opted to go hunting again.

"The signal it sends is, 'I'm ready to get out'," says Gary Schmitt, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. "He's ready not to be vice-president and to be out of government. You can see it in his energy levels, body language and being tired of the Washington scene. He and Don Rumsfeld are buying houses on the Eastern shore."

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Mr Cheney's closest allies have gone, says a former senior administration official. "He does not have the state department. He does not have the defence department or his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, who made him most effective. John Bolton is still there, but at the United Nations. Doug Feith has gone. Paul Wolfowitz has gone and now Rumsfeld has gone. These were all the people he worked with."

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He is also likely to clash with Democrats because of his expansive view of presidential authority and record of eschewing congressional oversight. Mr Cheney will lead any efforts to defend the constitutional powers of the presidency, in the face of any assertive investigations by Democrats.

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[Cooley Hurd]

1. He'd better get all the hunting in now - they don't allow shotguns at...

...Leavenworth.:D

[RC]

2. They do for the guards...

Just not for the inmates. I wonder how long cheney will last in the laundry?