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Patrick Leahy, Democratic Senator Humiliated by Dick Cheney, Announces Retirement

[Free Beacon] Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), the 81-year-old career politician best known for his failed attempt to confront then-vice president Dick Cheney on the Senate floor, announced on Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2022.

The defining moment of Leahy's career came in June 2004 following the U.S. Senate class photo. Leahy, reportedly jealous that Cheney was mingling with a group of Republican lawmakers, approached the vice president and attempted to bully Cheney into acknowledging the Democrats in the room. The confrontation devolved into a shouting match over the Iraq war and other issues until Cheney conclusively ended the exchange. "Go fuck yourself," he told the senator with authority.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-18 07:15|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Possible (R) takeover?

Posted by Bobby 2021-11-18 07:30|| 2021-11-18 07:30|| Front Page Top

#2 And so young for a Dem politician. He must have gotten a very bad report on his last trip to Walter Reed.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-18 07:33|| 2021-11-18 07:33|| Front Page Top

#3 He's worried about supply chain disruption and his massive prescriptions of anti-senility drugs.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-11-18 07:37|| 2021-11-18 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 He doesn't want to be in the minority in 2022.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-11-18 08:48|| 2021-11-18 08:48|| Front Page Top

#5 I truly enjoyed that "dispute" and, No, it wasn't over the 'Iraq War".

For over a week Pat "Lying Lips" Leahy had been bloviating in the Senate (safely shielded against libel laws by Federal Law) about all of the "obviously sinister, Sinister I say!" things that Cheney was doing in a high-level consultation with the Oil Industry about 'Improving America's Energy Economy'. "They must reveal ALL their secret dealings to the Public unless they are guilty of vile, evil deeds!!!!" And so on and so forth for hours on C-SPAN.

Then it sure looked like Leahy approached Cheney with all "fake fellow Senator camaraderie" where Cheney was ignoring him and Cheney snapped. In an earlier Senate I feel that the two would have had a meeting at dawn with pistols over some of the things Leahy 'implied' about Cheney. That was is my impression of the event and, of course, YMMV.

Posted by magpie 2021-11-18 11:11|| 2021-11-18 11:11|| Front Page Top

#6 Possible (R) takeover?

In the state that keeps sending Socialist Senator Sanders back to DC?

Posted by Glenmore 2021-11-18 12:02|| 2021-11-18 12:02|| Front Page Top

#7 (R) as in Soviet Socialist (R)epublic of Vermont

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-18 12:21|| 2021-11-18 12:21|| Front Page Top

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