It’s bad enough that, instead of coming back to work, Mitt Romney decided he’d rather hang out with a bunch of Republican bigwigs on a Georgia hunting trip. Now, it turns out, the quail that Romney et al. blasted to their deaths weren’t even in the wild. They were fenced in, so that fat, lazy-ass Republicans didn’t have to break a sweat in their quest to execute birds.
I’m no hunter, but I can appreciate the whole “man vs. nature” thing, sort of. But what, other than mindless sadism, is the point of shooting birds that are fenced in?
I really hate these people.
Oh, one more thing: kudos to the Herald’s photoshopping staff! This photo ran on today’s front page:
Please share widely!
Hockley TX–September 2, 1994 Republican George W. Bush and Governor Ann Richards in an annual Texas ritual went dove hunting on the first day of the season with the press in tow.
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Unfortunately, the GOP hopeful found out that one of the seven shots he fired off had hit and killed a federally protected killdeer. Recognizing he’d bagged the “wrong” bird, Bush admitted his mistake to the game warden and announced his desire to pay the fine.
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“I thought it was a dove,” Bush said, “I made a mistake and I’m going to pay for it.” GW was fined $130 for shooting the bird with a 20-gauge shotgun during an hour long dove hunt in a field northwest of Houston.
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Richards, neither bagged a bird nor was fined.