Bob McDonnell

While the Tracy Thorne-Begland "lynching" in the Virginia House of Delegates by Virginia Republicans has made the state look beyond backward and reactionary to the world, there's another casualty of the rank unvarnished bigotry: Bob "Governor Ultrasiound" McDonnell who has been trying strenuously to make himself look like a moderate and trying to change the public conversation away from the extremism of the Virginia GOP of which he is the ostensible leader.  The events in the wee hours of...Read Full Story

I've written a number of times that Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell, Virginia's current governor and V.P. nominee want to be, may have cut his own throat by slavishly supporting the extremist, theocracy supporting agenda of The Family Foundation and Virginia GOP lunatics like Del. Bob Marshall who seems to hate all gays and women with equal vigor. While the image immediately below comes from Oklahoma where GOP extremists are pushing measures akin to what the culture wars obsessed Virginia GOP has...Read Full Story

Governor Bob McDonnell If you ever want to see the contrast between liberal government and conservative government, look no further than Virginia and Maryland. Case in point Governor Bob McDonnell (VA) has the luxury of a conservative legislature and has instituted a number of limited government reforms that has spurred economic growth. Governor Martin O’Malley (MD) has a very liberal state legislature and has focused on social issues like gay marriage and making it illegal to smoke when...Read Full Story

When he ran for governor in 2009 Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell claimed that he was eschewing social issues to focus on jobs and getting the Virginia economy moving again. None of McDonnell's campaign propaganda was true - as some of us stated at the time - but unfortunately too few people listened. This year's session of the GOP controlled Virginia Genaral Assembly has highlighted in bright neon lights the fact that McDonnell lied through his teeth in 2009 and that extremism on social issues is...Read Full Story

As noted before on this blog and elsewhere in the media, Virginia Governor Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell has a burning ambition to be the GOP vice presidential nominee in 2012. To close the deal, he needs to be a solid conservative, but he can't be someone easily depicted as an scary extremist. The rub for McDonnell is the extreme legislation being rammed through the Virginia General Assembly - especially the so-called "personhood" bill and a bill aimed at forcing ALL women who seek abortions...Read Full Story

The picture above shows how Virginia State Police greeted protesters for reproductive equality this weekend. On Saturday, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reports, 31 people were arrested for marching to the Capitol and sitting down on the steps, where they were faced officers in riot gear. ***(RIOT GEAR, ROUGH HANDLING, NOW WHAT DO SUPPOSE GOVERNOR VAG PROBE MCDONNELL WOULD SAY OR DO IT ONE OF THE PROTESTERS WAS PREGNANT AND MISCARRIED DUE TO ROUGH HANDLING FROM ONE OF PO PO?*** Who issued...Read Full Story

As referenced in the prior post, Bob "Taliban Bob" McDonnell has lived up to his nickname and signed legislation that will force any woman seeking an abortion to under go a non-medically necessary (and possibly non-insurance covered) trans-abdominal ultrasound. In addition, the bill requires that the woman be "offered" the opportunity to view the image and listen to the heartbeat. Obviously, the goal is not to "inform women" but to brow beat them and intimidate them. I cannot help but wonder...Read Full Story

Running for the office of Governor of Virginia back in 2009, Bob McDonnell - "Taliban Bob" to those of us in Virginia who have followed his career - worked very hard to deny that he still supported much of the batshit crazy things he wrote in his thesis at Pat Robertson's CBN Law School (now Regent University). And Taliban Bob largely succeeded in duping the general public into believing that he still did not take his marching orders from the far right Christofascists at The Family Foundation...Read Full Story

I will confess that part of me revels in seeing Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell - a/k/a Taliban Bob - taking a continued beating because of his coddling of extremists in the Virginia GOP and slavish pandering to the Christofascists at The Family Foundation. Now he's even taking a beating in the venerable UK publication The Economist. Bob, I hope you've given Victoria Cobb and Bob Marshall a resounding "thank you" for what they and their fellow religious extremists have likely done to your...Read Full Story

A recent Christopher Newport University/Richmond Times-Dispatch poll found 58 percent of Virginians oppose the ultrasound bill, with just 31 percent supporting it. So, the party of less government wants the authority to insert a probe into a women’s vagina.  Why not! Its not like their going where “no man has gone before;” eh? THE VAGINAL PROBE, Governor Bob McDonnel Edition Take a real good look at this clown, Bob McDonnell, right HERE: LET’S BE CLEAR; IT’S NOT AN INVASIVE PROCEDURE, IT...Read Full Story