Loogypicker wrote:
On Oct 29, 8:54 am, Tosk wrote:
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In article ,
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"mgg" wrote in message
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"nom=de=plume" wrote in message
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"Tosk" wrote in message
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the dumbest bitch in America? "It's not a tax increase, it's eliminating
a tax decrease?" She actually said that.. Pfffftttt. Dumb empty headed
moron... Watch Harry defend this by making a comment about me, proving
he may be even dumber than the plastic surgery test dummy...
You are really an offensive oaf.
Hehe, typical lefty response.
I used to be one of you... until I met harry. He's a disgrace and an
embarassment to your party.
--Mike
I doubt were ever a liberal or progressive if you think calling someone,
esp. the Speaker of the House, a bitch is appropriate. She, like the others
in Congress, is a politician. I guess there must be some sort of double
standard because she's a tough woman. It's just politics if if it's a guy,
but if a woman speaks up, then she's got to be a bitch. Typical macho bs
response.
Let's just call her what she really is: A power hungry bitch.
Geeze, I don't hear Plume coming to the defense of the poor woman that
Florida congressman called a whore.. Double standard indeed. Anybody
with a brain can agree, what Pelosi said was a lie (no surprise there)
and plain stupid.- Hide quoted text -

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But it is VERY acceptable to Republicans when Cheney tell someone
"**** you" in the hallowed halls of congress, huh?

You have a good memory to remember a little incident that happened in 2004.
Who said it was very acceptable?


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Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity
Clash With Leahy About Halliburton

By Helen Dewar and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, June 25, 2004; Page A04

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.

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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.

"**** 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."

Gleeful Democrats pointed out that the White House has not always been
so forgiving of obscenity. In December, Democratic presidential
candidate John F. Kerry was quoted using the same word in describing
Bush's Iraq policy as botched. The president's chief of staff reacted
with indignation.

"That's beneath John Kerry," Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. said.
"I'm very disappointed that he would use that kind of language. I'm
hoping that he's apologizing at least to himself, because that's not the
John Kerry that I know."

This was not the first foray into French by Cheney and his boss. During
the 2000 campaign, Bush pointed out a New York Times reporter to Cheney
and said, without knowing the microphone was picking it up,
"major-league [expletive]." Cheney's response -- "Big Time" -- has
become his official presidential nickname.

Then there was that famous Talk magazine interview of Bush by Tucker
Carlson in 1999, in which the future president repeatedly used the F-word.

Tuesday's exchange began when Leahy crossed the aisle at the photo
session and joked to Cheney about being on the Republican side,
according to Carle. Then Cheney, according to Carle, "lashed into" Leahy
for remarks he made Monday criticizing Iraq contracts won without
competitive bidding by Halliburton, Cheney's former employer.

Leahy, Carle said, retorted that Democrats "have not appreciated White
House collusion in smears" that Democrats were anti-Catholic for
blocking judicial nominees such as William H. Pryor Jr. Democrats
demanded that Bush disavow the allegations by conservative groups, but
the White House did not.

The Democratic National Committee has declared this to be "Halliburton
Week" to portray administration ties to the controversial company.
"Sounds like it's making somebody a little testy," Kerry spokesman Chad
Clanton said.

Republicans did their best to defend the vice president. Senate
Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah), while pointing out
that he was unaware of the incident, described Cheney as "very honest"
and said: "I don't blame anyone for standing up for his integrity."

There is no rule against obscene language by a vice president on the
Senate floor. The senators were present for a group picture and not in
session, so Rule 19 of the Senate rules -- which prohibits vulgar
statements "unbecoming a senator" -- does not apply, according to a
Senate official. Even if the Senate were in session, the vice president,
though constitutionally the president of the Senate, is an executive
branch official and therefore free to use whatever language he likes.

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