Dick Cheney: A shot in the arm for George Bush

When last we left off, it looked as if there'd be no congressional hearings on the Bush administration's illegal and unconstitutional wiretapping of civilians.

And the White House, unhappy with a certain democratic election in the Middle East, was deciding how best to get Hamas out of power.

And the head of Homeland Security was getting his butt kicked for his role in the government's disgraceful response to Hurricane Katrina--while 11,000 temporary houses sit, useless, in an Arkansas field.

And the kid who had to quit NASA because he lied about his college record was giving interviews badmouthing a scientist who has enough advanced degrees to use up half the alphabet.

There are new pictures from Abu Ghraib, and reports that the prison has been a huge success--as a recruitment center for the insurgents.

American journalist Jill Carroll is days away from being killed by her kidnappers in Iraq because our government wants to look "tough" and refuse to release female Iraqi prisoners.

These stories? Banished. Flushed. Forgotten. All because Dick Cheney may have knocked back a few drinks before he blasted his gun into the setting sun.

Now everyone is mad at Dick Cheney. Where is his human feeling? What does he think--that he's above the law?

Mad? Everyone hates Dick Cheney. He's the walking embodiment of everything wrong with this administration.

Wow! Dick Cheney just swept all the bad news off the front page. Like Janet Jackson's boob and Paris Hilton's porno tape, he's the Only Story in America.

Sunday. Monday. Tuesday. Wednesday. Four days now. You can't buy coverage like that.

Oh yeah, Bush's staff is fuming. The bloggers are working overtime. And the press, in full investigative mode, is trying to figure out how that pellet got into the victim's heart.

Cheney? He's laughing. He thinks we're fools. And guess what? We're proving, yet again, that we are.