Today's Word: Vaffanculo
As Radical Russ reminds us, with a lovely photo-montage featuring the images of Republican leaders, the Republicans are the Party of Fuck You ("PoFY"?), or — to use our new vocabularly word, taught to us by that black-robed man with gravitas: Justice Scalia — the Vaffanculo Party.
The name itself is redolent for its constant reminder of hypocrisy: the Vaffanculo Party is the one perennially worried about profanity on the airwaves, outbreaks of which they feel should be heavily fined by the FCC. Well, except when the "fuck you" is uttered by 1) the President when he thinks he's off camera; 2) the Vice-President during debate in a deliberative body (more gravitas); or 3) a Supreme Court Justice in church. In those cases, it's protected speech apparently. That, or else the FCC fines are meant as a "make me stop!" gesture.
I have a bit of a problem, though, with the "vaffanculo" thing, since I'm a gay man and all. It's the same sort of problem I have with calling people "ass hole", as though ass holes are somehow bad things, or with calling people "butt ugly" as a friend used to do, since I often find butts rather on the attractive side. Ah well.
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on Saturday, 1 April 2006 at 00.45
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Dandy rant there, but I'll offer one small quibble.
As best I can recall, Cheney fired the F-word at Sen. Patrick Leahy when the two were in close proximity on the floor. A bit suprised to be in that spot, Leahy uttered some small-talk comment. Cheney glowered and let the Vermonter have it.
I think this occurred shortly before a session was to begin, although it could've been during one of those lack-of-quorum interludes. I'm sure it didn't happen during debate. That really would've been a scandal.