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Patrick Leahy, Democratic Senator Humiliated by Dick Cheney, Announces Retirement
2021-11-18
[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

#7  (R) as in Soviet Socialist (R)epublic of Vermont
Posted by: Merrick Ferret   2021-11-18 12:21  

#6  Possible (R) takeover?

In the state that keeps sending Socialist Senator Sanders back to DC?
Posted by: Glenmore   2021-11-18 12:02  

#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  

#4  He doesn't want to be in the minority in 2022.
Posted by: JohnQC   2021-11-18 08:48  

#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  

#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  

#1  Possible (R) takeover?
Posted by: Bobby   2021-11-18 07:30  

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