Cheney Joins Others Who've Put the Vice in Vice Presidency

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Byline: Burt Constable

Having our vice president shoot an old man in the face seemed a lot funnier before people started bringing up politics, questioning the way the story broke, giving interviews to Fox News and having buckshot-related heart attacks.

In his first public comments since Saturday's shooting of buddy Harry Whittington while quail hunting in Texas, Dick Cheney on Wednesday avoided saying something stupid such as, "I did not have shotgun relations with that lawyer."

Our vice president accepted responsibility, even if he remained defiant in his handling of the story, which didn't become public until the ranch owner called the local Texas paper …