Quick Commonwealth Hits

By: Rob
Published On: 12/27/2006 3:49:41 PM

Back by popular (?) demand, some hits from around the Virginia progressvie blogosphere:

G求 Regarding this ridiculous controversy cooked up by the right wing blogs - attacking Waldo to distract from Virgil Goode's controversy - see great comments by Kenton and Vivian. I love how the conservatives spend more time attacking the moderator of a blog aggregator for one reasonable editorial decision and virtually ignore continuing xenophobic diatribes of one of Virginia's congressmen.

G求 Regardless, Waldo is changing things up.

G求 More from Kenton, this time on the Republican delegates efforts to get rid of the Virginia Senate.  Seriously.

G求 You didn't think Virgil Goode was forgotten, did you? Of course not! ChangeServant - Goode's law school classmate - unloads:

To today's Virgil, who appears to view all Muslims as born or religiously-made terrorists (regardless of citizenship or religious antecedents) I say, taking a rhetorial turn from his beloved gun rights organizations, the Muslim faith doesn't kill people, people do.

G求 And Sisyphus makes a good point. The Fifth District can show us in 2008 that their views do not mirror those of Virgil Goode. Because, honestly, a vote for Virgil is a vote for his brand of xenophobia from this date forward.

And this is an RK open thread - what's on your mind today?

Comments



The Funniest Video of 2006 (Josh - 12/27/2006 5:11:37 PM)


CAUTION: language, sex (Kathy Gerber - 12/27/2006 9:04:29 PM)
I don't know how I missed this one, and I'm sorry to repeat if it's been mentioned already. Tom Delay started a blog back on December 10. As late as December 20, NYT had an article about it, The Hammer Strikes a Comeback Blow, all rose petals and such.

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It turns out that on Dec 10, or more than a week before the NYT article, Tom's blog was up for 75 minutes and had to be locked down so the comments could be removed. This man is NOT up for Mr. Congeniality that's for sure.

This is where the language and sex come in. James Risser saved a snapshot of Tom's blog including the comments at http://tomdelaydotcom.blogspot.com/

Here's the new and improved sanitized version of Tom Delay's blog.