Knew it would happen.
A few weeks of polls showing they’d loose the election if held today, they’d start to crack.
Cheney’s going to have the big one soon.
He uses the F word at a U.S. senator. Of course the senator had it coming for crossing the line by being critical of administration policy.
Here, we have the story…
Next, W. will outdo his dad who referred to his political opponents as ‘bozos’ days before the election.
Peace.
Reeder (who else?) beat you to it.
Darn.
I read a Yahoo news source dated “25 minutes ago” and find that it was actually quite a few hours ago.
Oh well. The advantage to posting in this thread is that the discussion will be all about Cheney swearing and not about Reeder.
Can’t wait til Monday’s Daily Show to see what they do with it.
Peace.
I’m no Cheney fan, but I still don’t see how it’s a big deal. Yes, it’s against the rules to use profanity on the floor while in session, but CNN says they weren’t in session. So Cheney said fuck. It was stupid of him, but would we have heard about it if it weren’t an election year?
Let me cue you all in on a little something.
The Senate is a big collection of powerful egos. How thoise egos manifest themselves is wonderful political theater, and has given us about two centuries worth of stories. Today is no different.
Some senators channel their egos into becoming the model of gentility and good manners on the Hill. Orrin Hatch is a modern legend in this regard. Some senators channel theirs into becoming legislative powerhouses, as Ted Kennedy was for years. Some senators channel theirs into being wheelers and dealers like Tom Daschle.
Some senators, though, carve out little fiefdoms for themselves, guard them jealously, and abuse their senatorial privileges in petty ways. These senators, from both parties, are assholes. There’s really no other word for them. And a second’s reflection can come up with some names that fit the bill here.
Patrick Leahy is an asshole. I might have told him to fuck himself too, rules be damned.
Nah, the big deal isn’t that he cussed. I do it all the time. What is a big deal is that he said it infront of about 12 other senators in the Senate. Again, I am not offended by this, but its a bad move on his part and it shows, I believe, that he is under a lot of stress and its starting to show. I would have a lot more vile contempt for him if he had just kept cool and went off to do evil in secret. This is just funny to me because it shows that he is losing it. The other thread sort of deals with the fact that its outrageous and that he supposedly is a member of the party of family values.
You just have to think of it like this. Bush dissed Kerry for saying that he fucked up the war, and said that it was beneath him. Now Cheney does it on the exact same day that the new ad came out on the Bush Cheney website? And now they have Cheney on the Reuters wire losing control of his language in front of other senators. He loses because it will make him look bad. All this on top of the fact that people urged Bush to dump him for 2004, must really seem bad.
I am going to enjoy the meltdown.
I think it would be funny if Cheney had some Denzel Washington “Training Day” type meltdown, with everyone silently shuffling out of the senate as he utters some spittle flecking tirade.
“YOU NEEED US, YOU"RE NOTHING WITHOUT US!!!”
“GAAAAHHHHHHHH” <clutching heart, falling>
I’m hoping more for Cheney as Lonesome Rhoads in A Face in the Crowd:
DON’T LEAVE ME!!!
Hehe, the possibilities are endless.
Now I’m picturing him as the emperor at the end of “Return of the Jedi”
Bush, of course is Vader.
“Cussing like a sailor is probably the closest thing Cheney will come to serving in the military, so maybe we should all be very proud of him.”
–Randi Rhodes
(Though cussing at Leahy is hardly much of a challenge, is it? Leahy is pretty widely regarded as a polite gentleman, IIRC)
Now that you mention cussing like a sailor… we have found yet another connection Cheney has with all those other ethically bankrupt energy traders from Texas.
I’m still waiting for George W. to puke in the lap of a head of state.
I was amazed to watch George H. W. self-destruct in 1992, and now am not so amazed that George W. and Co. are doing it in 2004 as, well, just watching it.
To those who don’t think this that big a deal: The elections in the fall are going to be decided by the fence-sitters, and it’s going to boil down to issues of character. Incidents like this don’t do much to foster confidence in our Veep’s character.
And since he looks like that villain from Underdog anyway, he’s starting from a disadvantage.
Which one? Simon Bar-Sinister? Riff-Raff?
Definitely not Riff-Raff. Maybe Simon Barsinister ?
Similarly, has anyone else picked up some strange resonances between George W. Bush and Dukes of Hazard’s Roscoe P. Coltrane? I’m not sure what it is, but I keep expecting Bush to do that wierd “Ah-gudge-gudge-gudge” laugh during a press conference.
Every time a politician swears, it just makes me like 'em even more. Who remembers “Major league asshole”-gate?
Not I. What was that?
<Republican>Cheney only SAID it. Clinton DID it, and do you here anyone criticizing him?</Republican>
Well, for his personal sake and the nation’s-- I hope that isn’t true.
For one, I wish no personal ill-physical-will on Mr. Cheney; for two, if that focker bursts a ticker right now, the “Have Mores” win the November Thing in a Grape Kool-Aid suckling sympathy vote!!!
