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    Whether It’s Dick Cheney Telling A U.S. Senator to Go Fxxx Himself, or a Congressman Telling Cheney to STFU, Enough is Enough

    Posted December 11th, 2009 6:01 am

    Two wrongs (or twenty wrongs) don’t make a right. While he was Vice-President of the United States, Dick Cheney told a U.S. Senator on the floor of the senate to go fxxx himself. A U.S. Congressman earlier this year interrupted the President of the United States during his speech to Congress, yelling “you lie”.

    And now, a U.S. Congressman on national television has said to Dick Cheney: STFU.

    It doesn’t matter if Cheney is a trunk monkey. His attacks in the past don’t make it right now. Let Cheney’s own words be evaluated. History will determine what legacy Cheney has left the country. In elections, ever since Mitch McConnell successfully demonized Dee Huddleston with a 30-second cartoonish commercial, the tit-for-tat flaming has been proven to require a response of equal flaming. But that flaming doesn’t have to spill over into non-election scenarios.

    There is a reason that politicians who respect their roles do not play the role of trunk monkey after leaving office. That role can be played, but it shreds any remnants of historical perspective the politician may have otherwise been given.

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7 Responses to “Whether It’s Dick Cheney Telling A U.S. Senator to Go Fxxx Himself, or a Congressman Telling Cheney to STFU, Enough is Enough”

  1. Bob'sFriend December 11th, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Well said Bob!

    A question about the trunk monkey – is that a reference to a retired politician that waits for the call to action and attempts to use his/her political weight to influence a situation? If so, doesn’t that apply to pretty much every past President (except for maybe George Jr, who is currently weightless), and many past VPs? If the tire iron is part of the equation then I’ll have to rethink that…

    Perhaps Rep. Grayson was referring to the less common phrase “Stay Tuned For Updates.”

  2. kentondem1 December 11th, 2009 at 10:50 am

    Excuse me if I don’t head for the fainting couch. Chaney still has a voice.

  3. LumberJock December 13th, 2009 at 12:53 pm

    EXCUSE MEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    The rancor with which the rite-wengerz watch us is exceeded only by their passionate distaste for our values, maturity and timeliness of action.

    We must meet all their intemperate behavior in a timely and vigorous manner. We must communicate with them in 4-letter words. They demand that we lower our vocabulary to their level – 4-letter words. Since they belong in the gutter, we address them with gutter language.

  4. Bob Layton December 13th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    In elections, I agree. Not so sure it has to be that way in other forums. But in elections, it’s anything goes.

  5. Bob'sFriend December 13th, 2009 at 9:31 pm

    They belong in the gutter? Their distaste for maturity? Address them with gutter language?

    True argument is a useful tool for changing others opinions and actions. That is accomplished with facts and a delivery method that, as passionate as it may be, extends the opportunity for dignity in the disagreement. That is a good thing. But no one listens when the message is spewed venomously. You may reply that you are responding in kind, but that sort of discourse is no more effective between adults than it is between children on a playground. Someone has to choose to be the first to rise above the fray.

  6. Bob Layton December 13th, 2009 at 9:41 pm

  7. Bob'sFriend December 13th, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    I could be arguing in my spare time… lol!

    Well done!

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