Several readers have chimed in to note that Vice President Garner did not, in all likelihood, say "warm bucket of spit." It was likely a more...ahem...colorful metaphor he made use of.

Indeed. However, my mother visits this site every day. So, I choose to keep this a strictly PG-rated blog - even at the expense of literalism. The only curse words used here are "damn," "hell," and - of course - "Semprini."