Vice-President Cheney has shown his class yet again. According a The Washington Post article, A brief argument between Vice President Cheney and a senior Democratic senator led Cheney to utter a big-time obscenity on the Senate floor this week. On Tuesday, Cheney, serving in his role as president of the Senate, appeared in the chamber for a photo session. A chance meeting with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, became an argument about Cheney's ties to Halliburton Co., an international energy services corporation, and President Bush's judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice. "Fuck yourself," said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.
The Post noted, ironically, that the exchange occurred on the same day the Senate passed legislation described as the "Defense of Decency Act" by 99 to 1.
Tellingly, Cheney's office did not deny that the phrase was uttered.
I understand the vice-president's annoyance. Sen. Leahy is one of the few Democrats who's had the backbone to question the administration's most extreme policies, most notably the war on civil liberties, in the last few years. The emperor and his minions don't like being told they have no clothes.
This comment is consistent with the administration's lack of class and professionalism.
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