OK I'll Weigh In

With all of the ludicrous stories out of Washington these days, it's hard not to comment. I'll save the jokes for others because, well, others are better at them than me. And I won't even go into detail about, well, anything, because I don't know details about most things, including this.

My thoughts about the insanity of last weekend's escapade are along these lines: What type of outcry/charges would be brought if the Veep and the 78-year-old's positions had been reversed? What would have happend if the 78-year-old dude had been killed? Why is it OK to justify this as an accident? Which is not to imply that it wasn't an accident. I don't doubt that it was an accident. I'm talking about the justification process. Just because it's an accident doesn't make it OK.

I have to ask: what if this were two truly private citizens? Investigations galore. What if one person had been black and the other white? Investigations and speculation. What if the Veep had been shot rather than the shooter? Investigations and charges of some sort, most likely. I highly doubt that it would be waved off under the guise of an accident. Even though I'm sure it was an accident.

I'm just saying, it's not OK to accidently shoot someone, whether it was an accident or not, and I think that should be the bigger story, rather than whether or not Scott McClellan is in another tough spot. I think the press is missing the bigger story. I think everyone is.