Referring back to the title of the piece ... wasn't one of the main memes of the feminist movement, back in the Packwood days that brought Boxer and Pelosi to the congress, the idea that sex between a superior and subordinate could never really be consensual? If my memory serves, it was ... and therein lies the hypocricy.

You must be kidding. Having ONE senator go along would make this mess "bi-partisan"??? No matter which side of the aisle you're on or how you think health care reform should look, claiming that having Olympia Snowe aboard would make it "bipartisan" is, to coin a phrase, "acting stupidly". She is as partisan as Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi, usually for the same party. The entry in Webster's for RINO is accompanied by her official senate portrait.

Ms Walsh stated: "Plus it was overly angry and defensive, when his early remarks were feisty but apologetic and graceful."

I disagree. I found his initial response disingenuous and (again) condescending rather than "apologetic and graceful". He said that he had stated those bitter small town folks "VOTED on gun issues ... " etc.

That is NOT what he said in the original address in San Francisco. He said "they cling to guns, religion, ...” not that they vote on those issues. There is a real difference in those two statements, and, as he has so eloquently told us, they are not "just words". The words this well educated, "words-trained" legal mind chooses mean what they mean, not what he might WISH they mean when disclaiming them later on.

Ma'am,

It has been my long-time observation that those on the left side of political discourse are far more prone to resort to that kind of totally offensive and unacceptable language. I cannot imagine Rush or Sean Hannity or William Buckley EVER referring to a public figure in that manner, particularly in a public forum.

Same goes for Senator McCain. I really thought at the time that his rather nervous chuckle when a questioner referred to Senator Clinton as a b**** was more one of embarrassment that agreement.

Comment?

Of course her tears were real, and totally sincere ... just like the way she changes her accent to fit her audience.

~LCC