Bob McDonnell = Pat Robertson

In a flash, Pat Robertson has turned Virginia’s governors’ race from a contest between two candidates into a referendum on Pat Robertson. No longer content to let his boy, Bob McDonnell, stutter and try to defend his Christian Broadcasting Network law school thesis, Robertson launched a rescue effort this week. It appears Pat’s [...]

Bob McDonnell Opposes Birth Control for Married Couples: Read His Words Yourself

Today’s Virginian-Pilot has three largely fact-free counter-offensives from the Pat Robertson/Bob McDonnell/Christian Broadcasting Network/Regent University far-right corner of Virginia Beach:

a cheery article announcing that Pat Robertson is “much more moderate” than most people realize, as well as misunderstood and unfairly criticized. You know, you hang around with tyrants and tinpot dictators, denounce [...]

Bob McDonnell Unveils New Plan on Jobs and Transportation

[With apologies to Jonathan Swift.]
As the outcry over his Christian Broadcasting Network thesis died down, embattled Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell returned today to his conservative roots, announcing bold initiatives to resolve the Commonwealth’s exploding transportation crisis and to fulfill his ambition as the “Jobs Governor.”
“If all the women will simply stop working,” announced [...]

There Is No Truth To the Rumor . . .

Every Friday, we take a look around and debunk gossip, bust urban legends, and, we hope, give you a little smile to start your weekend.
There Is No Truth To the Rumor that Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus has a job offer in hand from United HealthCare. Of course, if he opens his hand [...]

Does Bob McDonnell Read the Bible?

In his 1989 Christian Broadcasting Network thesis, Bob McDonnell called working women “detrimental” to the family, and termed feminism one of “the real enemies of the traditional family.” McDonnell urged “covenant marriage,” as well as tax, welfare, and child care policies to favor his Father-Knows-Best view of the traditional family, which, he believed, [...]

Bob McDonnell’s Kind of Woman

Here’s Joe the Congressman’s wife, Roxanne Wilson. She’s proud to stand behind her husband, yada yada.
All of which is really sweet, but raises some interesting questions:
So, Roxanne, your husband was “the nut that hollered out ‘You Lie!’” until you found out it was him, then you were proud of [...]

There is No Truth to the Rumor . . .

Every Friday Sometimes on Saturday, we take a look around and debunk gossip, bust urban legends, and, we hope, give you a little smile to spice up your weekend.
There Is No Truth To the Rumor that Congressman Addison Graves Wilson (R-Redneck, SC), aka “Joe the Congressman,” a retired National Guard Colonel, would have heckled his [...]

More Anti-Semitic Vandalism

The Virginian-Pilot reports that four people, dressed in white, painted swastikas and other anti-Semitic graffiti at the United Jewish Community Center in Newport News early this morning.
Vandals also defaced the Jewish Community Center’s property with anti-Semitic graffiti last October.
Another sad reminder that there are Nazis among us, as well as KKK members and other assorted [...]

We Will Never Forget

Today marks the anniversary of the September 11th attacks in New York, at the Pentagon, and in Pennsylvania.  Across the country, we will all remember in our own way.  We offer a prayer for the victims, for their families, for our country.

(Tomorrow: Special Saturday edition of There Is No Truth To [...]

Republican Drops Lipstick Bomb Again

Are Republicans out of metaphors?  Why has House Minority Leader John Boehner revived LIPSTICK ON A PIG?????
Today is the exact anniversary of the phony lipstick controversy from 2008–see our post from Obama’s Granby High School speech.
Last year, the Republicans were trying to hide sliding poll numbers and the collapse of the Bush economy.  This year, the [...]