At this point, according to observers, both statesmen decided - by seemingly unspoken mutual consent - to abandon the gutter patois of the common carnival worker and to resort instead to an eminently more quotable (but, to those not versed in the vagaries of hip-hop idiom, more confusing) exchange of viewpoints.
"Oh, it's like that?" Mr. Cheney queried.
"Whut? Whut?" Mr. Leahy shot back.
"Once again,?" Mr. Cheney replied (quite obviously quoting a lyric from Ice Cube's 1990 album, 'AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted'), "it's on."
