{"id":4433,"date":"2005-06-13T09:27:57","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T13:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4433.html"},"modified":"2005-06-13T09:27:57","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T13:27:57","slug":"department-of-pots-kettles-accusations-of-being-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/department-of-pots-kettles-accusations-of-being-black\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of pots, kettles, accusations of being black"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice President Dick Cheney, on Howard Dean’s provocative rhetoric<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“That’s not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party…. I really think Howard Dean’s over the top.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dick Cheney’s own penchant for colorful rhetoric<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

“F— yourself,” said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If Dean’s “over the top,” what’s Cheney? And if Dean’s confrontational choice of words makes him a poor choice to represent a political party, what does that say about Cheney’s antagonism and his qualifications to be the vice president?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice President Dick Cheney, on Howard Dean’s provocative rhetoric: “That’s not the kind of individual you want to have representing your political party…. I really think Howard Dean’s over the top.” Dick Cheney’s own penchant for colorful rhetoric: A brief argument between Vice President Cheney and a senior Democratic senator led Cheney to utter a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}