I really hate that blowhard. On the upside, Kristjen Nielsen is cool as a cucumber.

He has always been an asshole.

I like what Dick Cheney said to him.

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Originally posted by 2000Z-71:
I like what Dick Cheney said to him.

"What Cheney said." is useful and widely understood code for beating profanity filters on other forums.

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What Cheney said

Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity
Clash With Leahy About Halliburton

By Helen Dewar and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 25, 2004

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.

Leahy's spokesman, David Carle, yesterday confirmed the brief but fierce exchange. "The vice president seemed to be taking personally the criticism that Senator Leahy and others have leveled against Halliburton's sole-source contracts in Iraq," Carle said.

As it happens, the exchange occurred on the same day the Senate passed legislation described as the "Defense of Decency Act" by 99 to 1.

Cheney's office did not deny that the phrase was uttered. His spokesman, Kevin S. Kellems, would say only that this language is not typical of the vice presidential vocabulary. "Reserving the right to revise and extend my remarks, that doesn't sound like language the vice president would use," Kellems said, "but there was a frank exchange of views."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...A3699-2004Jun24.html
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I must lead a shelter life and missed that somehow.

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
He has always been an asshole.

You're being too polite.

Several years ago he leaked some classified documents and - surprise, surprise - nothing was done about it. For a while Rush called him "Leaky Leahy."

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Originally posted by Elk Hunter:
He has always been an asshole.

Elk, you are absolutely correct!
My blood pressure skyrockets every time I hear him pontificate.