Vice President Dick Cheney got a public scolding a few years back when he told a certain democrat senator to perform sexual relations on himself.

It appears Rep. Rahm Emanuel, chairmain of the House Democratic Caucus, went to the same school of witty comebacks. The subject is stalled lobbying reform:

Before a Democratic caucus meeting, a Politico reporter asked House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rahm Emanuel of Illinois about the language of the bill's main provisions. After Emanuel demurred on the specifics, this reporter asked -- in the effort for openness and disclosure -- if a journalist could sit in to hear debate on the language.

"Why don't you go f--- yourself?" Emanuel replied, as he entered a men's room in the Capitol basement.

Ahh...how reassuring that, though the names may change, the play remains the same.