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Bush Approves Cheney’s Handling of Mishap. (Something tells me if I shot someone in the face it wouldn’t be described in the local rag as a “mishap.”)

President Bush said Thursday he was satisfied with Vice President Dick Cheney's explanation about his shooting accident in Texas.

It’s so cute when everyone pretends he’s the boss.

"I thought the vice president handled the issue just fine," the president said in his first public comments on Saturday's accident. "I thought his explanation yesterday was a powerful explanation."

A powerful explanation? A powerful explanation is when Felicity Huffman is asked why she took the role of a transsexual in Transamerica and movingly describes her intention to honor the courage of those who risk being ostracized or discriminated against, or bravely live life on society’s margins, all in pursuit of realizing their true selves. Dick Cheney’s guttural intonations about how he shot a dude in the face in the middle of a canned hunt that’s essentially skeet shooting with the added benefit of actually murdering living things is not powerful. It’s pathetic.

Bush said it was "a deeply traumatic moment for him and obviously it was a tragic moment for Harry Whittington." He said that the shooting "profoundly affected the vice president."

Profoundly affected him in that he was woefully inconvenienced and actually had to admit doing something wrong.

Bush recounted Cheney's explanation of the accident. "He heard a bird flush and he turned and pulled the trigger and saw his friend get wounded," the president said.

Wouldn’t a normal person say, “He heard a bird flush and he turned and pulled the trigger and immediately realized he had made a terrible mistake by accidentally shooting his friend?” It’s ridiculous the lengths to which these nitwits go simply to avoid admitting error. “Saw his friend get wounded.” Sheesh.

Oh, and by the way…Whittington’s not a friend, according to the veep. He’s only an acquaintance.