Imagine if a Democrat had said this about a Republican chief of staff (CNN link):
"Don't let his effeminate nature and his ballerina past mislead you on this. He may look effeminate (he was a ballerina at one time) but he has the feral instincts of a female rat defending its young," Limbaugh said.
You read that correctly. Rahm looks "effeminate" and has the "feral instincts of a female rat." Could you fit more misogynistic, homophobic vitrol into a single sentence? And Rush wonders why he doesn't "own the women."
Rush and his asshole minions (e.g., every Republican in congress and the morons at Politico) are crying that the "Democrats are just trying to distract the American people." Distract them from what? Passing S-CHIP, equal pay legislation, and stimulus bill?
No. It is the Republicans who are distracting the American people. They are trying to change the subject from the sorry fact that their de facto leader is a corpulent, homophobic, sexist drug-addict. We didn't make the "entertainer" the keynote speaker at their official convention. We didn't make their dear leaders (including the "talented" RNC chairman Michael Steele) publicly apologize to the pill-popper. We don't force the millions of ditto heads to listen to his drivel.
In any case, I think it would be prudent to ask every Republican leader if they are OK with Rush calling Rahm an "effeminate" "female rat." If they aren't OK with it, be sure to find out when they plan to apologize to the Godfather.