Female Democratic officeholders take the lead in opposing the Blunt amendment and combatting Limbaugh.
Meanwhile, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is catching hell from women back home over voting for the Blunt amendment and now says she regrets her vote.
And in Ohio, a female state senator is planning to introduce a bill today that targets erectile dysfunction medications. “I care about the health of men as well, and I thought it only fair that we illustrate that and make sure that a man is fully informed of the risks involved in taking these drugs and also the alternatives such as natural remedies or also celibacy,” Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) tells TPM, with tongue in cheek.
Over the weekend I started writing an article about Rush Limbaugh, apologies and what we used to call “hang time” at TPM — namely, the period of time between a Republican politician’s rebuke of Rush Limbaugh and the inevitable abject apology. But of course, quite a lot has happened since then. Rush has issued his own non-apology apology; a slew of advertisers have bailed on his show; and it’s become standard for Republican politicians’ to criticize him at some level, something made much easier by his own nominal apology.
But there’s no making sense of this Limbaugh controversy without putting it into the larger scope of the high stakes gamble Republicans made in putting birth control at the center of the national election debate as the economy began to recede as a sure-fire election winner. Read More
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Still laughing at the female lawmaker’s bill in Ohio that would require men to be informed of the risks involved in taking Viagra and of alternatives, such as natural remedies or celibacy.
There’s nothing I hate more than getting dragged into silly score-keeping sessions about which outrage was worse. There’s a huge crack team of folks on both sides that manage this task quite well. I’m not particularly good at it and find the whole thing silly and stupid. But I’ve seen just too many examples of this Ed Schultz vs. Rush Limbaugh slutlympics and I can’t take it any more because it’s ridiculous. The two things really weren’t comparable and the fall out shows no double standard, unless you mean one in favor of Limbaugh.
So here goes. Read More