Hypersensitive “Girlie Men” Castigate Schwarzenegger

California Democrats need to get lives. Spoofing the SNL skit, Schwarzenegger called the defenders of special interests and trial lawyers ‘girlie men’. Naturally, the Democrats took offense at the very idea that someone would have the termerity to identify a duck as. . . well. . . you get the idea. . .

“Schwarzenegger dished out the insult at a rally Saturday as he claimed Democrats were delaying the budget by catering to special interests.

‘If they don’t have the guts to come up here in front of you and say, ‘I don’t want to represent you, I want to represent those special interests, the unions, the trial lawyers … if they don’t have the guts, I call them girlie men,’ Schwarzenegger said to the cheering crowd at a mall food court in Ontario.

The governor lifted the term from a long-running ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit in which two pompous, Schwarzenegger-worshipping weightlifters repeatedly use it to mock those who don’t meet their standards of physical perfection. “