Discussion: McCaskill Rips Lawmaker's Call To Repeal O-care With 'Manly Firmness'

system1 · February 10, 2015, 5:16pm

Discussion for article #233096

teenlaqueefa · February 10, 2015, 5:20pm

“Manly Firmness”

Does he also give his wife his Manly Firmness?

mantan · February 10, 2015, 5:21pm

he didn’t mean to

Gosh, this phrase has been getting a lot of play lately both here within TPM and on our tomato-stained national stage…Thank God the whining is so very manly in nature, I couldn’t take sissy whining or girlish whining.

sweetdee · February 10, 2015, 5:21pm

“It is just like going to war,” Moon said. “You want a soldier to fight like a man. If a woman is in the trenches, you want them to fight like a man, too.”

Just stop, your attempt to explain is more insulting.

blue_grit · February 10, 2015, 5:26pm

‘Manly firmness’ reminds me of the Seinfeld episode with the low talker, the puffy shirt and George working as a hand model.

“The muscles… became so strained with… overuse, that eventually the hand locked into a deformed position, and he was left with nothing but a claw.”

learning · February 10, 2015, 5:26pm

Another tea party chicken-hawk. Quoting the Foundling Fathers to hide his lack of anything remotely resembling the ability to serve as a lawmaker.

fargo116 · February 10, 2015, 5:27pm

If his wife is named ‘Fred,’ he does.

theghostofeustacetilley · February 10, 2015, 5:27pm

I dunno. Fighting like a girl might be appropriate for close combat situations. Slapping, pinching, and pulling hair all require proximity to the target in question.

fargo116 · February 10, 2015, 5:29pm

‘Manly firmness.’

You just know Moon is gayer than an interior decorator in San Francisco. I’ll bet he lives in a cold sweat every day of his life that someone might find out he trolls leatherbars in Iowa.

wwss · February 10, 2015, 5:29pm

I have an idea that this Moon fellow is a Democratic plant … and he is doing very, very well … keep talking buddy!

fargo116 · February 10, 2015, 5:33pm

Aw c’mon. This has GOTTA be from The Onion.

cincypix · February 10, 2015, 5:34pm

Shorter Rep. Moon: “Keep your government hands off my Medicare Part D … I’m entitled to my ED prescription of choice”

fargo116 · February 10, 2015, 5:36pm

That would be a sanded stick tied to his ‘manly floppiness.’

beattycat · February 10, 2015, 5:36pm

Oh, my. All in one day: Manly firmness and verbal rape … and the dude talking about the need to have soldiers fight like a man. LOL. Seriously, giggles, lol.

rev · February 10, 2015, 5:37pm

And then the girl can fight back like girls really do. The first time I had to fight off an importunate guy, at about age 14, I hauled off and socked him on the jaw with my fist. Got away from his manly firmness too, before he even got it out of its holster. That’s how effective girls fight. I admit that the result was probably shock from the fact that a little girl did that, but it still worked.

lew · February 10, 2015, 5:38pm

Really? A guy named “Moon” is talking about “Manly Firmness”? Are you sure the Daily Show writers didn’t pay him to say this?

sdsumom · February 10, 2015, 5:40pm

After all, he is trying to screw the uninsured.

mantan · February 10, 2015, 5:41pm

Moon wanes…

sniffit · February 10, 2015, 5:50pm

LOL…it’s just so absurd. Everyone knows that GOPers/Teatrolls have trouble experiencing manly firmness. That’s why their ranting sounds like what happens when you mix a handful of Cialis with Namenda and a quart of bourbon.

sniffit · February 10, 2015, 5:52pm

“It is just like going to war”

Indeed…just. The world is a colorful hallucinatory cartoon to these fucking people.