"I'll
Ram My Fist Up Your Ass"
Rep.
Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs, still hadn't forthrightly apologized
for warning a colleague on the floor of the House, "If you try
that again, I'll ram my fist up your ass."
Instead, Cadman was splitting hairs. He insisted the responsibility
was reciprocal: The fellow he'd threatened, Rep. Val Vigil, D-Thornton,
should have to apologize, too, because Vigil had told Cadman he
was "garbage." In fact, Cadman suggested, Vigil should apologize
first, presumably because he'd "started it," to use the playground
lingo appropriate for these two legislative titans.
Well,
of course Vigil should have apologized immediately, too. But an
individual's responsibility to do the right thing is not contingent
on others acting first. What is shocking is not only Cadman's
reluctance to express regret but the fact that he wasn't absolutely
mortified by what he'd stooped to say.
It
would never occur to most people to use such an expression even
in private, no matter how incensed they were over an affront,
let alone utter such words in public before other elected officials.
With his outburst and its aftermath, Cadman has revealed himself
as a sanctimonious loose cannon - someone to whom it might be
wise to give a wide berth.
The
Holistic Wisdom Corporation