Reasonable intelligent debate continues unfettered in California:

Some California legislators are angry with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after he referred to them as "girlie-men" during a speech on Saturday.
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But a Schwarzenegger spokesman says the comment was the governor's way of saying that legislators are "wimps" (weaklings) by giving into special interest groups.

Schwarzenegger Provokes Anger
With 'Girlie-Men' Remark - Voice of America

Later in the day Vice President Cheney referred to Nancy Pelosi, and all house Democrats as "a pack of dick-weeds". A spokesperson for the Vice President was later quoted as saying, "By dick-weed the Vice President meant they were playing partisan politics, ahem."