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Vice President Dick Cheney blurted out the "F word" at Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont during a heated exchange on the Senate floor, congressional aides said on Thursday.

The incident occurred on Tuesday in a terse discussion between the two that touched on politics, religion and money, with Cheney finally telling Leahy to "f--- off" or "go f--- yourself," the aides said.

from a Reuters report

I swear a hell of a lot myself, but in my own time. When I'm at work, engaged with my coworkers, they expect me to be professional. If I acted like this, I'd get a stern talking to, possibly even a formal warning in my employment record.

But then, since the VP apparently feels free to screw the voters, the environment, and the taxpayers, I suppose it's no surprise his reaction to criticism is to tell someone to fuck themselves.

Though I have to laugh at the state of society in which it's felt necessary to hhyphen out the letters of the word in reporting it. We haven't gotten very far from the 19th century, have we?