Meanwhile in Virginia - the GOP legislature has gone nuts

[underpants]

Assembly's right turn forces gov's hard choices

Coming McDonnell's way soon are bills that would radically curb abortion availability, bar same-sex couples from adopting children, require photo identification of voters and force drug tests of welfare recipients.

Another would repeal a 20-year-old law that brought an end to Virginia's reputation as a gun-runner's paradise, supplying weapons that found their ways into the hands of criminals as far up the Eastern Seaboard as Boston.



http://www.necn.com/02/05/12/Assemblys-right-turn-forces-govs-hard-ch/landing_politics.html?&apID=ebc8cd827448468da39eabee9296b564

All of these went through just this week. They also slashed funding for bike trails and routes - my two wheeling friends are flipping their lids over this and they should.

[Raven]

1. Similar insanity in NH. The chickens

are packing their bags to come home to roost.

[rurallib]

2. Sounds like a full bore ALEC state.

[montanacowboy]

3. This cracker McDonnell might be Mitten's

running mater - whooooooowhoooooooooo