“Fuck yourself,” the Post quoted Vice-President Dick Cheney, “the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency,” as saying on the Senate floor to Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.).
“The vice president seemed to be taking personally the criticism that Senator Leahy and others have leveled against Halliburton’s sole-source contracts in Iraq,” Leahy spokesman David Carle said.