Cheney Says He Has No Regrets for Cursing Leahy

[ NO Cheney.  YOU go fuck off.  ]


Cheney Says He Has No Regrets for Cursing Leahy

Fri Jun 25, 2004 06:30 PM ET
By Caren Bohan
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=5519523


SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Vice President Dick Cheney said on Friday 
he had no regrets about a bitter exchange with Democratic Sen. Patrick 
Leahy in which the vice president used an obscenity.

Cheney, on a campaign swing through the Midwest battleground states of 
Iowa and Michigan, hurled the "F-word" at Leahy during a conversation 
between the two on Tuesday, according to congressional aides.

Asked if he cursed the Vermont senator, Cheney told the Fox News 
program, the Cavuto Report, "Probably."

But he said "No" when asked whether he regretted it.

"I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it," 
Cheney said.

According to congressional aides, Leahy said hello to Cheney following 
the taking of the Senate group photo on the floor of the chamber.

Cheney, who is president of the Senate, then ripped into Leahy for the 
Democratic senator's criticism this week of alleged war profiteering in 
Iraq by Halliburton, the oil services company that Cheney once ran.

During their exchange, Leahy noted Republicans had accused Democrats of 
being anti-Catholic because they are opposed to some of President Bush's 
anti-abortion judges, the aides said.

That's when Cheney used the obscenity in telling Leahy what he could do, 
aides said.

"I expressed my unhappiness with the way he's been conducting himself," 
Cheney said in his Friday interview. "He had challenged my integrity and 
I didn't like that. But most of all I didn't like the fact that after 
he'd done so that he wanted to act like everything is peaches and cream 
and I informed him of my view of his conduct."

Cheney said that was not the "kind of language I usually use."

"I think a lot of my colleagues felt what I had said badly needed to be 
said, that it was long overdue," he added.

On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee 
Republican, declined to comment on Cheney's remarks, saying, "I didn't 
hear them."

But speaking about increased partisanship in his chamber, Frist told 
reporters, "Civility, we need more of it in the Senate ... and probably 
in Washington, D.C., generally."

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