John Cole's Not-So-Psychic Hotline

Yesterday, John Cole kicked off a feisty thread at Balloon Juice predicting that Dems and lefties would "overplay their hand" on the Cheney shooting incident. They'd take it too far, end up looking stupid..."we never learn..." "that's why we keep losing" etc.

He started his case off by citing a snip from Jane Hamsher at firedoglake that was admitedly "colorful" in it's summary of events. From here Cole predicts it's only the first shot in an idiotic lefty salvo to come...

[Cole] Just wait, Blue. It is only a matter of time before Dean pipes up, and Pete Stark screams something from the floor of the house and so on.

Just wait.

Well, the wait is over! Today, a prominant pol made a bold statement decrying Cheney and the shooting incident...

"If he'd been in the military, he would have learned gun safety."

Howard Dean? Murtha? Rangel? Who's the loose cannon? No doubt some East Coast wiseass elitist...

Nope, none other than prominant conservative Republican Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska.

[via Carpetbagger]