{"id":38797098,"date":"2004-07-21T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T08:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.casey.com\/2004\/07\/a-senate-smackd.html"},"modified":"2013-04-13T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2013-04-13T02:36:11","slug":"200407a-senate-smackd-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/2004\/07\/21\/200407a-senate-smackd-html\/","title":{"rendered":"A Senate Smackdown"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice-President’s recent suggestion on the floor of the United States Senate to Senator Patrick Leahy that he go somewhere and do something to himself is surely a high point in the Bush-Cheney Administration’s efforts to ‘restore a tone of civility and decency to the debate in Washington’. In an interview after his exchange with Leahy, Cheney said he ‘felt better’ after making his remark.<\/p>\n

Now, new details about the exchange have emerged, and anyone interested in getting the rest of the story should read this article titled “New Details Surface<\/a> from The New Yorker<\/b>. You’ll certainly get a laugh out of it, and feel better just like Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice-President’s recent suggestion on the floor of the United States Senate to Senator Patrick Leahy that he go somewhere and do something to himself is surely a high point in the Bush-Cheney Administration’s efforts to ‘restore a tone of civility…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38797098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mOvc-2CMTE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38797098"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797098\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173354661,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38797098\/revisions\/173354661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38797098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38797098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casey.life\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38797098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}