normally, profanity wouldn't bother me...

[acroyear]

(and no, i'm not talking about an interesting, heated, incident at morris practice last night...)

I'm talking about this incident, where the Vice President decided that it was appropriate to say "Fuck Yourself" to one of the most popular Democratic Senators in recent history, VT's Patrick Leahy.

It particularly bugs me in a major way that this is the same VP of the same administration that is also responsible for Michael Powell's campaign to eliminate such language from every having a chance of being uttered under any "media" circumstances.

So, assholes, make up your mind. Either let everybody say the word "Fuck" whenever they want, or don't use the word yourselves. However, there is a time and a place, and the senate floor is NOT an appropriate place under ANY circumstances.

That such a phrase was uttered to ANYBODY on the Senate floor is disguisting and near-sacreligious on its own, much less being uttered to a U.S. Senator who has much in the way of evidence to back up his criticisms.

This is the government center for the most powerful country in the world, not a pool hall.

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YOU are a smart man...

[nvqrjaaajkss.livejournal.com]

whom I can tell can realistically see that there is rare to NO decorum even at the top levels of governing humanity, ALL the way down to the scraped-from-the-bottom population on this planet anymore.

EVERYONE thinks to seem they have "the right", because they live in a free (HUGE INT: RELATIVE) country, to say, comment and do whatever they want.

Well boys and girls, THAT kind of thinking is not only PATHETIC but also a realistic fast-track ticket to clear anarchy.

IF we ever get to anarchy, rest assured Im nuking every possible area of this planet because the planet will clearly be nothing but TRASH at that point given not only the human population's dysfunctionally selfish behaviour but also what we have clearly done to the planet environmentally.

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[dglenn.livejournal.com]

You're right; that does not belong in the Senate. Traditionally that sort of thing (along with fisticuffs and othe violence) has been reserved for the House of Representatives. Senators are expected to behave with more decorum than Congressmen. I'm not sure about Veeps, but if this happened on the Senate floor, it was not appropriate.

bit of context

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

the article says the senate wasn't actually in session; it was just a photo-op situation, and that the senate floor rules have restrictions against profanity by senators but not by others. The veep technically is a member of the executive branch, even with his tie-breaking vote privilage.

and as far as i know, its been quite a few decades since the last knock-down, drag-out fight has happened on the house floor...but i'm open to corrections...