Vice President Dick Cheney’s shooting of a Texas Republican lawyer and fund raiser during a hunting expedition is ironically symbolic of all that is wrong with this presidential administration. The incident illustrates, in a particularly humorous way, that The Republican Party is, in fact, a corrupt gang; that it has no interest in understanding, much less in carrying out, the will of the people; and that the entire group are uniquely inept.

        Cheney’s delay in releasing the story clearly shows Republican disdain for public opinion, as well as a fundamental distrust of the press. The bottom line is that this administration, like all their predecessors from John Adams on, is constantly defensive toward the media because they have so much to hide, and they have so much to hide because of their constant, repetitive mistakes, as well as their repeated illegal, corrupt acts, not by one or two individuals, but by virtually the entire administration, and their constant, arrogant denial of responsibility for whatever they screw up. They are fundamentally unqualified to govern.

        This administration have made great mistakes, like starting a pointless, preemptive war in Iraq which they can’t win, like standing around with their hands in their pockets while New Orleans’ levees crumbled and one of our nation’s great cities sank under the assault of Hurricane Katrina, and like arrogantly destroying our European alliances which have taken generations to build, out of an ignorant belief in The United States’ moral and intellectual superiority. Republicans also have repeatedly shown absolute disdain for the rule of law, as they attempted again and again to make George Bush a tyrant who is above the law. They can’t even do the small things right. After capturing the dictator of Iraq, they can’t even keep order at his trial. I am repeatedly embarrassed, as Saddam makes a mockery of the Iraqi court. Then there is Jack Abramoff and his black hat. It is the last straw that the gang who can’t shoot straight, can’t get it through their thick heads that the good guys wear white hats.