Quotables
"The idea is that you argue in the daytime and then you have a drink together at night. But there's a difference when you essentially accuse a Vice-President of corruption, and then you slap him on the back and smile. I think that deserves a riposte, including a suggestion of how the Senator might entertain himself."
- Charles Krauthammer, describing the disingenuous gregarity of U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), and Vice President Cheney's recent off-color suggestion on the Senate floor in response
EDIT: As Major Garret of Fox News insinuated but didn't spell out, the fellow who adorns our masthead knows a thing or two about political rivalry. One of his confidants during the Civil War, Charles Sumner, was beaten almost to death with a cane right on the Senate floor during debate. And as early as 1836, Honest Abe was known to finish some "discussions" with a certain fellow legislator from Illinois (named Stephen Douglas) by wrestling with him in the dirt.
