Doesn't Regret 'F*ck yourself' Remark

American Scofflaw

Dick Cheney is leaving office without remorse and taking some potshots at his successor on the way out the door.

Cheney mocked Joe Biden during a Fox News interview for misstating the section of the constitution that defines executive branch power, and he was dismissive of criticism that his amassing the power of the vice presidency was a trend that needed to be reversed.

"If he wants to diminish the office of the vice president, that's obviously his call," Cheney shrugged. "President-elect Obama will decide what he wants in a vice president and apparently, from the way they're talking about it, he does not expect him to have as consequential a role as I have had during my time."

Biden bit back, however, in a dueling Sunday morning interview that aired on ABC's "This Week" in which he said he stood by his statements.

"His notion of a unitary executive, meaning that, in time of war, essentially all power, you know, goes to the executive, I think is dead wrong. I think it was mistaken. I think it caused this administration, in adopting that notion, to overstep its constitutional bounds, but, at a minimum, to weaken our standing in the world and weaken our security. I stand by that -- that judgment," Biden said.

Cheney also seemed nonplussed at the idea that it was inappropriate for him to tell a senator to "Fuck yourself" on the floor of the Senate.

WALLACE: Did you really tell Senator Leahy, bleep yourself?

CHENEY: I did.

WALLACE: Any qualms or second thoughts or embarrassment?

CHENEY: No, I thought he merited it at the time. And we've since, I think, patched over that wound and we're civil to one another now.