No Regrets

I just got to page 13 of this morning's LA Times. In the right column, second item under IN BRIEF, is this:

Cheney Has No Regrets About Cursing Senator

Vice President Dick Cheney said in Sioux City he had no regrets about a bitter exchange with Democratic Sen. Patrick J. Leahy in which the vice president used an obscenity.

During a conversation Tuesday on the floor of the Senate, Cheney told Leahy, "Go ... yourself," according to congressional aides.

Asked in Sioux City during a Midwest campaign swing if he cursed the Vermont senator, Cheney said "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 in an interview on cable's Fox News Channel.

This must be unprecedented. The Vice President of the United States, on the floor of the Senate, said to a US Senator, "Go fuck yourself."

(I know I wrote earlier that I didn't intend to post any obscenities here...changed my mind.)

Wait a minute. Maybe he only said, "Go screw yourself." That would be OK, I guess... if someone who was there lets me know I'll correct my mistake.