Matt Drudge has a sense of humor - political pissing contest in D.C.

Vice President Cheney warned in an interview Wednesday that a premature withdrawal from Iraq would invite “further attacks” against the United States and said he has been surprised by the weakness of the Democratic Congress.

Most striking were his virtually taunting remarks of two men he described as friends from his own days in the House: Democratic Reps. John Dingell (Mich.) and John P. Murtha (Pa.).

In a 40-minute interview with Politico, he scoffed at the idea of two men who spent years accruing power showing so much deference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in the big spending and energy debates of the year.

Murtha “and the other senior leaders … march to the tune of Nancy Pelosi to an extent I had not seen, frankly, with any previous speaker,” Cheney said. “I’m trying to think how to say all of this in a gentlemanly fashion, but [in] the Congress I served in, that wouldn’t have happened.”

But his implication was clear: When asked if these men had lost their spines, he responded, “They are not carrying the big sticks I would have expected.”

Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), who as Democratic Caucus Chair is the party’s fourth-ranking House leader, replied: “Some of us were surprised that the president didn’t have a bigger stick when he could have stood up to Dick Cheney.” Link

   ACK! Not much I can insert into this metaphorical 'measure of a man' match beyond my misgivings about men making more of malapropisms than getting to the meat of the matter.

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[Al Gore]

I demand a recount!

[Bill Clinton]

I plead the 5th.

[Hillary Clinton]

In your dreams sweetheart, you'd better plead the two and a half.

[Monica Lewinsky]

ummmph, mmmunph gag ... that's about the size of it.

Didn't even tickle my tonsils.

[Bomb-a-rama]

...and said he has been surprised by the weakness of the Democratic Congress.

I don't see why he should have been.

[Carl]

Dick Cheney has so many cardiovascular problems that his condition (all around) suggests a deficiency of the hormone testosterone.

His aggressiveness could very well originate from frustrations caused by impotence.

Having a sizable organ is one thing. Getting it to sing can be beyond its owner.

And in frustration, under his guidance, we obliterate the Twin Towers, we invade Afghanistan (Dick creams his pants) We invade Iraq (more cream) Saddam is hanged (more cream). But since, nothing worthwhile.

So, we have to bomb Iran with Dick being in one of the B1 bombers so he can cream his pants once more.

The Gulf is functioning perfectly. Everything produced is shipped.

But see:

Dick needs to cream!

[Phoenix]

Oh, patoowie, Carl. I never met a Dick that didn't.

[Carl]

Phoenix

As a Woman you are liable to fanatism or fanatisicism

So you are blind to the currents that will destroy the U.S.A.

Too bad.

[Phoenix]

My goodness, Carl. Did you really say that as a woman I am liable to fanaticism? *Because* I'm a woman?

You bad boy. Take it back. I am far from blind to the currents that 'might' destroy the U.S.A.

By the way, in order to be a fanatic, one must be impressionable. I can state unequivocally very few things impress me. Military honor displays do. And acts of unexpected kindness do. I'll come up with a third sooner or later.

[Carl]

Phoenix,

women are inherently better armed than men. They have intuition. Intuition favors fixed belief because it need no foundation except for seat of the pants feelings.

That very virtue makes women more susceptible to fanaticism.

This is the basis for Islam's perpetuity. A woman under Islam is perfectly at ease. She lives in a friendly manner with her rivals with which she shares the household duties. She doesn't fear any outsider.

The worst part for many libertarians is that she is condemned to one lover, unless she divorces from her husband, a definite possibility under Islam and one that involves no courts, no lawyers, just a private act between spouses.

She can then become a ''temporary wife'' who marries her client for the duration of the act and divorces right after, without having sinned.

A wife is entitled to divorce if the husband has not fulfilled his marital duties for a reasonable period of time (four months in general).

More than a billion women all over the world accept their lives under Islam.

Todays enlightened Western Woman is liable to work two shifts, one at home and one at work.
Her kids end up spraying bullets at schools or shopping malls, because in their World, there is no time for hugs and intimacies, and cuddling, and self esteem.

Islam has lasted for more than a millennium and is growing. Islam somehow fulfills many people's dreams as the ideal way of life.

For some reason, people in the great US of A seem to feel that life cannot be happy if it occurs outside of the boundaries of the USA.

Yet in the rice paddies of Vietnam, families can revel in the blossoming of their crops and in storytelling in the evening bonfire amongst chants and celebrations. No TV, no electricity, no telephone but local happiness at being alive and well and whole.

Can't we, westerners understand this?