...Many Republicans (click title to entry - thank you) have declared this the year of the Republican women, and a number of Republican women have suggested that their opposition would be better at politics if they acted more like men.
To "man up" has become a catch-phrase this year, after Newsweek's provocative cover story about modern manhood, which asserted that the whole country needs to "re-imagine masculinity" and men should abandon traditional perceptions of the man as breadwinner and worker, and adopt a more co-parenting model....
It is about emasculating candidates, but, there is also the 'homophobia' thing with the Tea Baggers, too. Tea Republicans equate emasculating harassment with homophobia. They mask their hatred in those words as well. Quite frankly they don't care what it means to anyone so long as it works in their favor.
If one notes the rhetoric of, what's her name, O'Donnell stated before she won her party's candidacy it was very similar to what is being stated by most of the Tea Republicans.
"Man Up" was used to stimulate O'Donnell's base to go to the polls and it definately was an Anti-Gay directive at the time she was using it.
The Viagra Thing. I would want Ms. Angle to produce a sex offender that is taking Viagra. It would be interesting to find one in prison that was actually provided such a drug. Regardless, I think it will be hard pressed to find it.
Coburn introduced the amendment to entertain 'kill the bill' demonstrators that were also spewing racial statements and harassing minority Congressmen.
...Before it passed, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.,(click here) proposed an amendment barring federal expenditures for supplying Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs to sex offenders. Democrats called it a political stunt aimed at killing the legislation. The amendment died.
The health care law does not single out convicted sex offenders....
