Ah now we know why Cheney decided to do his interview yesterday with Brit
Hume:

President Bush’s top political aide, Karl Rove, pushed Vice President
Dick Cheney to speak publicly about shooting a fellow hunter, sources tell
CBS News.

Rove worried the vice president’s silence on the issue was becoming a
political problem, CBS News chief White House correspondent Jim Axelrod
reports.

Cheney is in a “state of meltdown” over shooting his friend and the
political fallout it has caused, a source close to the Cheney has told CBS
News. On Wednesday, he accepted full blame for the incident and defended the
decision to not publicly disclose the accident until the following day.

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Well even old Dick can’t function without Karl “The Brain” Rove calling the
shots. This really isn’t that shocking though.