VP(who had 2 DUI's & Suspended Driver's License)Caught Drinking & Shooting

[kpete]

From Digby:

Hume says Cheney said he had a beer at lunch -- that had been hours earlier -- no one was drinking. Went back to ranch, took a break for a few hours, and then went back out hunting at 3 pm. Says it was out of his system by the time they went back out. Cheney told Hume he had BBQ and a beer a lunch. (That should be an interesting point of discussion.)


OH my goodness. I've always heard that alcohol and guns do not mix. But certianly a man who had two DUI's and had his driver's license suspended --- back in the days when you had to be really, really drunk to get popped --- now admits to drinking on the day he shot an old man in the face. And he didn't let law enforcement talk to him until the next day.

I know it's unseemly to bring this up but shouldn't there be at least a teeny-tiny little investigation about this now? People are mouldering in jail for decades for drinking and injuring people with guns.

http://www.digbysblog.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_digbysblog_archive.html#114003532455266567

[Punkingal]

1. He was drunk for sure.....

He is admitting to one beer to try and stop the questions about it. But we will never know.

[babylonsister]

2. And took a break back at the ranch for a few hours? Who,

pray tell, was he 'breaking' with?

[DemInDistress]

3. but officer "I only had 2 drinks" rotf...meanwhile after a

more lenghty look that person was found to have a 1.4 or 1.7 blood alcohol..not dicky, he has perks afforded no ordinary American

[Cocoa]

4. does Cheney have a story about how he quit drinking?

like Bush's Karen-Hughes-written story about how Laura made him choose between Jim Beam and her?