“Other Priorities”

Master of the Senate

So here’s another reason Cheney fled the scene as soon as possible after shooting an old man directly in the face, leaving some “six to two hundred” birdshot pellets embedded in his body. He had an urgent mission, which he accomplished yesterday, in the nation’s Capitol, which was to kill the investigation of NSA domestic spying, and he succeeded. This was accomplished at exactly the same time the public was being belatedly told that his victim had a heart attack as the result of Cheney’s birdshot not “migrating to,” but actually hitting, his heart. It’s probably hard to tell how much his intimidation factor was boosted by the fact that people like Olympia Snowe knew as he twisted her arm that he had just shot a man at close range and publicly didn’t give a damn.