Monday, October 7, 2013

Dick Cheney Counsels U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy On Senate Floor: "Go Fuck Yourself"

Most Honorable Vice-President Dick Cheney's advice to Senator Patrick Leahy.

Years later, Cheney told talk show hose Dennis Miller:

"That's sort of the best thing I ever did."

To tell you the truth, I can't think of anything better.

Pretty much the high point of his career.

Or, is this the high point?
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/costly-withdrawal-is-price-to-be-paid.html

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“The Republican philosophy might be summarized thus: To hell with principle; what matters is power, and that we have it, and that they do not.” “Where the Right Went Wrong,” by Republican Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, the living American who has spent most time serving as White House senior advisor.

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Cheney to Leahy: 'Go F**k Yourself'

By Daniel Kurtzman, About.com GuideJune 25, 2004

Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out an obscenity at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy during a testy exchange on the Senate floor. The incident occurred after Leahy harangued Cheney about profiteering by Halliburton and President Bush's judicial nominees. According to the Washington Post, the exchange ended when Cheney offered some crass advice: "Go f**k yourself." The Washington Times put it this way: "Cheney...responded with a barnyard epithet, urging Mr. Leahy to perform an anatomical sexual impossibility."

"On the Senate floor, Dick Cheney flipped out and told Senator Pat Leahy to go F-himself. Can you believe that? Aren't these the same guys trying to fine Howard Stern for bad language?"--Jay Leno

Update: In an April 2010 interview with Dennis Miller, Dick Cheney reflected on telling Sen. Patrick Leahy to "go f**k yourself", saying "That's sort of the best thing I ever did."

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