That was 2006: The Year of the Sneer

[Contrary1]

Which of the following did not happen in 2006?

The vice president of the United States shot a man in the face. The family of the man who was shot apologized.
The vice president of the United States was named as a witness in a federal investigation, putting him on track to become the first vice president ever to testify at a criminal trial.
The vice president of the United States said anyone who voted for a Democratic Senate candidate would be encouraging “the al-Qaida types who want to break the will of the American people.”
It was revealed that the vice president of the United States insists that all television sets in hotel rooms he uses be preset to Fox News Channel.

Silly you. You know you can’t trust the liberal media. We fooled you — all of those things happened in 2006 to Dick Cheney, whose gray visage floated, http://witlist.blogspot.com/2005/11/cheney-hot-air-balloon-collides-with.html">like a Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade balloon, over the Year of the Sneer.

Golly, it was a mean year, punctuated by as nasty a political campaign as you could ever imagine. And the vice president was both behind-the-scenes AND front-and-center — and saw his power base go from concrete-solid to decidedly wobbly.

Same to you, pal
For a moment or two, it seemed as if the wind was blowing with the vice president, who by all accounts was being eased aside as the big boys of the first Bush presidency trundled in to clean things up.

But when all the votes were counted, frogs fell from the sky and locusts swarmed the Capitol. The Democrats — last seen whirling around in full Curly woob-woob-woob mode after losing two years ago to one of the most unpopular presidents in modern history — won control of the House and the Senate..."



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