June 26, 2004

MORE LIKE A SANDBOX THAN THE SENATE:

VEEP: I DON'T @#&*%!ING REGRET IT (DEBORAH ORIN, June 26, 2004, NY Post)

Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday said he has no regrets about using the F-word to Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy — and in fact "felt better after I had done it."

"Instead of having a substantive debate over important policy issues, [Leahy] had challenged my integrity, and I didn't like that," Cheney said in an exclusive interview with Fox News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto."

"Most of all, I didn't like the fact that after [Leahy] had done so, then he wanted to act like, you know, everything's peaches and cream. And I informed him of my view of his conduct in no uncertain terms. And as I say, I felt better afterwards."


Ah, for the good old days when he could have just caned the Senator.

Posted by Orrin Judd at June 26, 2004 10:04 AM
Comments

Cheney couldn't cane anybody. His heart would give out after a couple of swings.

Posted by: Brandon at June 26, 2004 11:06 AM

Giving us Condi. & if he took Leahy with him we'd get another Senate seat...

Posted by: oj at June 26, 2004 11:12 AM

To quote GWB about a reporter:"This guy's an a$$ho!e. Cheney replied: "Bigtime."
Same goes for Leahy.

OJ,
What makes you think Vermont would put in a Republican? They had one in ... and who needs him?

Posted by: Genecis at June 26, 2004 11:31 AM

It's a Republican state, which is why Jeffords had to wait until after he was re-elected to switch.

Posted by: oj at June 26, 2004 11:36 AM

If Vermont is a Republican state, how does it happen that their lone congresscritter is a Socialist?

Posted by: PapayaSF at June 26, 2004 1:37 PM

The GOP hasn't run anyone against him. They nearly won anyway in '94, but didn't have tv ads because they didn't realize he was so vulnerable.

Posted by: oj at June 26, 2004 3:05 PM

PapayaSF - Before the Jeffords switch VT had a longtime GOP Senator (Jeffords), a longtime Dem Senator (Leahy), and a socialist Congressman (Sanders). In 2002 they replaced a Dem governor (Dean had retired) with a GOP Governor. I think the deal is that VT is a small state without much depth in politicians so incumbency, at least for the Senate/Congress seats, outweighs ideology.

Posted by: AWW at June 26, 2004 3:07 PM

Sometimes voters think about Committee chairs too. I know that many Congressmen have been reelected in KY because of the power they had been able to accumulate in the Hill (Wendell Ford and Bill Natcher immediately come to mind.)

Posted by: Bartman at June 26, 2004 5:19 PM

Bernie'll never be a chair.

Posted by: oj at June 26, 2004 5:25 PM
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