Cheney Dismisses Critic With Obscenity (washingtonpost.com):
There is no rule against obscene language by a vice president on the Senate floor. The senators were present for a group picture and not in session, so Rule 19 of the Senate rules — which prohibits vulgar statements “unbecoming a senator” — does not apply, according to a Senate official. Even if the Senate were in session, the vice president, though constitutionally the president of the Senate, is an executive branch official and therefore free to use whatever language he likes.
No one denies the VP the freedom of his rich vocabulary but there’s a time and place for everything and what might be permissible in a barnyard might not be so on the Senate floor.
But doesn’t this just dovetail nicely with excellent judgment we’ve seen so far?