"I'll ram my fist up your ass!"

This is Bill Cadman, Republican, who represents the proud 15th district (Colorado Springs) in the Colorado house. He's the Minority Caucus Chair (which I take to mean that the Republicans are in the minority there — rather surprising).

Val Vigil, a Democrat who represents the 32nd district (Thornton), was trying to do a favor for the family of Lance Corporal Thomas Slocum who was killed March 23 near An Nasiriyah in Iraq. The family wanted to be allowed to use a license plate on their car that the state of Colorado only issues to Marines. The family said that the Marines are their family now. So the Honorable Mr. Vigil (D) proposed a bill to do just that.

In committee the bill was changed to create special license plates for families of servicemembers, but these would be different from the ones issued to the servicemembers themselves. When that bill came back to the floor Vigil proposed an amendment to change the bill back to his original proposal. That was when the subject of this post, Bill Cadman (R), got up and called the amendment "garbage." Whereupon, Vigil (D) called Cadman (R) "garbage." But before the proper student of debate could decry that ad hominem attack, Mr. Cadman (R) came back with "If you try that again, I'll ram my fist up your ass!" Which we think is a really unusual thing to yell. The usual stuff along this line would be "I'll kick your ass" or "I'll slap your tits." One could wonder if maybe Cadman (R) really does ram his fist up asses (or ass, at least).

News stories to back me up can be found here and here. Thanks to reader DK for pointing the way.