What's sex got to do with it? But Democrats clearly missed some opportunities this week in pointing out how GOP-sponsored measures were injurious to the XX chromosomes amongst us. ●The Excess Federal Building and Property Disposal Act, or H.R. 665, aims to sell off unused buildings and land. But what Republicans didn't tell you is that inside each of these federal buildings are . . . women's restrooms. So basically, the new law reduces the number of bathroom facilities for women, even as women become an ever-larger part of the federal workforce. ●The Foreign Cultural Exchange Jurisdictional Immunity Clarification Act, H.R. 4086, is designed to make it easier for foreign countries to lend American museums artwork or other pieces. This is clearly just terrible for female artists abroad, who might not be able to afford the shipping costs. Again, bad for women! And we don't even need to point out that all House bills approved this week were sponsored by men. Drip, drip, drip . . . Rep. Hank Johnson sure has a vivid imagination. The Georgia Democrat concocted a scenario on Tuesday that could form the basis of a conspiracy-thriller movie. It happened at a budget hearing for a House Armed Services subcommittee at which the National Security Agency chief, Gen. Keith Alexander, was testifying. First Johnson posited this bizarro situation: "If Dick Cheney were elected president and wanted to detain and incessantly waterboard every American who sent an e-mail making fun of his well-known hunting mishaps . . . " Uh-oh. The Loop might be guilty of that. (The guy did, after all, shoot his buddy. In the face.) Then Johnson wanted to know how President Cheney might root out those poking fun at him. "Does the NSA have the technological capacity to identify those Cheney-bashers based upon the content of their e-mails?" he asked. Alexander's answer was a resounding "no." Johnson's line of questioning apparently stemmed from a story in Wired magazine claiming the NSA is building "the country's biggest spy center" in Utah, a facility that will focus heavily on domestic spying. Alexander emphatically denied the spying program. Well, he would, wouldn't he? Where's that reset button? It's only Thursday, but the award for this week's Loop Gaffe of the Week - perhaps the month - can surely be given to Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser for GOP presidential-nominee-in-waiting Mitt Rom­ney.