Colombian commandos sporting Che Guevara t-shirts rescued 15 hostages from FARC guerillas including Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt who had been held 6 years.

Nancy Pelosi has been holding the Colombian Free Trade deal hostage since April.

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Unwilling to give up the spotlight, secret agent woman Valerie Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson, are frog marching Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby into civil court for blowing her cover. A Time/CNN report doesn't think the lawsuit stands much of a chance. 

A two and a half year special counsel investigation found no crime in Ms. Plame's exposure. Wilson was not charged either for outing her in his Who's Who in America entry.  Christopher Hitchens has a  link to a pdf of the actual Who's Who entry on Slate.

Maybe Vice President Cheney should keep his powder dry for his friends.
 

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Cheney evokes such strong emotions there are actually those in favor of the shooting.

True, it's Alec Baldwin, but here's what he had to say on The Huffington Post: "Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent
citizens here at home indiscriminately. Who ever thought Harry
Whittington would be the answer to America's prayers. Finally, someone
who might get that lying, thieving Cheney into a courtroom to answer
some direct questions."

Tucker Carlson takes the HUI (hunting while intoxicated) angle, "I think Cheney gets to do pretty much whatever he wants, which
is why he got to have a beer at lunch on a hunt. I’ve been on dozens of
hunts, there’s no beer served as lunch. You can’t drink a beer if you
shoot, period."

If the vice president had crystal meth for lunch we would have a problem.   But a beer? 

The Daily Kos was strictly big picture, "This shooting accident is simply a metaphor for how Cheney and the entire administration have always operated."

Liberals who opposed Justice Scalia's duck hunting trips with Cheney have reversed themselves.

I think I'll have a shot and a beer.

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White House reporters weren't happy about being scooped by the Corpus Christi Caller-Times on The-Second-Vice President-to-Shoot-a Man-While-In-Office story.  They seemed extra irate when Cheney finally gave his deposition to Brit Hume last night.

CNN, commentator Jack Cafferty called the interview "a little bit like Bonnie interviewing Clyde…".  Libby Averyt, Caller-Times editor and vice president, for her part, said, "It's not like we are some amateur paper _ we are a daily newspaper".

The 12 hour delay before White House spokesman Scott McClellan learned of the shooting was an opening for speculation.  NBC 's David Gregory got into a verbal brawl with McClellan but no shots were fired.

Dragon Fly Eye. Net Blog titled its entry, "I'm Okay, You've Been Shot".  Vice President Cheney's hunting buddy, Harry Whittington, hopes to be okay soon.

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To avoid further offense I did not draw Dick Cheney's image.

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Daniel Henninger askes in the WSJ, "How is it in the press's interest to be an enabler in the indictment of a leaker? Bringing legal ruin to a public official under either law(the Intelligence Identities Protection act if 1982 or the Espionage Act of 1917)  would suppress the future flow of information to the public. Leaks would come in unmarked brown envelopes."