Civility Drops to a Low Point in Congress

[cal04]

As USUAL blaming it on the dems
what a bunch of bunk

In the latest episode, Vice President Dick Cheney used an obscenity beginning with ``F'' in an exchange with Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on the Senate floor where members had gathered for a group photo. ``I was kind of shocked to hear that kind of language on the floor,'' Leahy said of the incident this week. Maybe he shouldn't have been. Just days before, Senate Judiciary Committee Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, had referred to a proposal by Leahy to subpoena Justice Department memos on prisoner interrogation as a ``dumb-ass'' idea.

Cheney, interviewed by Fox News Friday, said he had no regrets about his remarks to Leahy and ``I felt better after I said it.'' He added, ``A lot of my colleagues felt what I said badly needed to be said.''
The occasional obscenities in a body where ``my good friend'' is the usual form of address lay bare what has become a poisonous atmosphere in Congress this year. Tempers have been shortened by the war in Iraq and an election campaign in which Democrats, hoping to capture the White House and Congress, are on the offensive.

``It's as bad as I've seen it in my 10 years in Congress,'' said Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois, a moderate Republican who has led efforts to make the House a more civil place. LaHood has helped organize a bipartisan retreat at the start of every session so lawmakers can get to know each other better, but he has concluded that ``the will of the membership is not there to do it next year.'' LaHood said things started going downhill a year ago, when a slew of Democratic presidential candidates began criticizing President Bush. Hastert's spokesman, John Feehery, said Republicans bend over backward to be fair to Democrats, but ``they argue procedure because they can't win on substance.''

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Washington-Incivility.html

[RC]

1. More lies and falsehoods from the right.

"LaHood said things started going downhill a year ago, when a slew of Democratic presidential candidates began criticizing President Bush. Hastert's spokesman, John Feehery, said Republicans bend over backward to be fair to Democrats, but ``they argue procedure because they can't win on substance."

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Things started going downhill in 1992. Here Freehery is accusing the dems of the same thing the repugs are doing. The repugs wouldn't recognize real substance if it hit them up side the head.

[Wickerman]

2. The party of Personal Responsibility: "I felt better after I said it"

Dickweed.

[Career Prole]

3. "A lot of my colleagues felt what I said badly needed to be said."

Right you are, Dick.
Now fuck off!

[lanparty]

4. What about family values ????

So this is what Dick Cheney wants schoolchildren to learn? That using profane language in such formal settings is appropriate???

What's next, will my priest tell me to "fuck off" after serving me communion?? Will the President end his state of the union address with "Y'all fuck off now!!! Y'here???"

Come on Dick, we know our tongues slip sometimes. But typically we apologize and get it over with.

Finally, it's not that much of a surpise getting a fuck out of such a dick. We shouldn't be so shocked.

[DeepModem Mom]

5. I am outraged out today -- my outrageometer is about busted --

Cursing out Pat Leahy, Medicare lottery, killing shelter animals to save a buck, stifling scientists, lying about the economy, happy talk about the hell that's Iraq -- and now this stink of self-righteous hypocrisy --

[Wind Dancer]

6. You and me both!

My blood pressure is so high, disgusting beyond belief!

[Bake]

7. November 2004, America to the Pukes: GO FUCK YOURSELVES!

This is my most fervent wish for this country.

Bake

[Yupster]

8. Worse before the Civil War

when Senator Sumner got beaten senseless by a senator from South Carolina with a cane right in the senate.