And as if we didn’t have quite enough…

… there’s more similarity between Tom Davis and Chris Perkins.

Perkins not only has a spotty voting history (which in and of itself, doesn’t bother me too much) but he spent a lot of time helping his buddy Gene Taylor, a Democrat, try and keep his seat in the general election in 2010! He was even compensated for his efforts. Gene Taylor was the chair of the HASC seapower subcommittee, from southern Mississippi. His district included most of Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Huge destination for Navy spending and military pork. Good buddies with Trent Lott and Thad Cochran. No surprise that Sam Graves and the boys would be happy to have him back in their fraternity. Perkins is clearly just another passenger on the bipartisan military-industrial complex gravy train, and is buddies with anybody in either party who can help him get ahead, be it politically or with his lobbying business. He is a military version of the “Emperor of Northern Virginia” (h/t D.J. McGuire for that moniker)  and is now bad enough not to get my support in the general, should he win the primary. May as well have Connolly in there and challenge him with a good conservative  in 2014.

But let’s not let that happen. We have a candidate who bleeds conservatism in the true traditional limited-government sense. This is from his latest blog post:

In the U.S., interest rates and taxes are lower than ever while government spending is higher than ever, and yet, with massive federal stimulus, our economy is not responding. Big government liberal Congressman Connolly seems to think that there can be only one answer—more and more stimulus—but Europe is demonstrating the inherent problem with that approach. Luckily, there is a better way.

The solution to our economic woes is not to have more of the same; it is to fix the fundamental flaws in our economic model. There are three major areas in need of reform:

1. We need to pursue the development of our own energy resources and create high-paying jobs in the U.S. rather than sending our energy dollars overseas. Even from an environmental perspective, it makes more sense to drill for oil here, where it will be done in a more environmentally friendly way than in Saudi Arabia or Mexico.
2. We need to reduce existing overregulation, which is burdening small and medium sized businesses. The small business has always been the economic powerhouse of our economy, creating 70% of the jobs, but as our government has added more and more regulatory burdens, it is increasingly difficult for these businesses to get started, to keep up with new regulations, to earn a profit, to grow, and to hire more workers.
3. We desperately need to reform our tax system, especially our corporate tax code. Perhaps Congressman Connolly is pleased that America now has the highest corporate tax rate in the world. I am not. Corporate income taxes are regressive and hurt our international competitiveness, killing jobs and investment. Further, the code is designed to favor the mega-corporations. According to the IRS, on average, small corporations only receive an 8% reduction in their taxes due to tax credits, while the largest firms (those with revenues over $250 billion) average a 37% reduction in their taxes! We must level this playing field in order to allow small businesses to thrive once again, ideally by eliminating the corporate income tax entirely and replacing it with a simpler system.

THIS is the man we need representing the Old Dominion in Congress, not a go-along-to-get-along lobbyist seeking to ride his service record into Congress, and certainly not Boss Hogg aka Gerry Connolly, who is a thoroughgoing partisan Democratic lefty hack, as evidenced by his attacks on Scott Walker, on scant evidence.

Ken Vaughn for Congress. The distinction is even greater than I suspected.

Someone remove this ignorant twat from the classroom!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock today, you’ve probably heard this soshul studees publik skool teechur Tanya Dixon-Neely verbally attack her student for allegedly “disrespectin da prezident.”

This student’s “crime?”

The argument began when the classroom began discussing news reports that likely Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney bullied a fellow student when he was in high school.

“Didn’t Obama bully somebody though?” a student in the classroom asked, referring to an incident Obama described in his memoir “Dreams from My Father.”

The teacher said she did not know, and the argument quickly escalated as the teacher yelled at the student, telling him “there is no comparison.”

“He’s running for president,” she said of Romney. “Obama is the president.”

The student argued that both candidates are “just men,” but the teacher said, “Let me tell you something … you will not disrespect the president of the United States in this classroom.”

Just listen to this ignorant twunt!

She’s shouting at this student, who is merely asking a question about the President’s admitted bullying of a young girl in his school days!

She’s accusing said student of disrespecting the President, even though the student did no such thing by pointing out that criticism of both Romney and Obama is protected by the Constitution.

Apparently it’s a crime to point out that both Romney and Obama are just men. Oh NOEZ!!!  Zero is the second coming of the Messiah! Didn’t you know?

Just listen to this screeching, double negative-spewing, ignorant shrew attack her student! Just listen to her spew falsities about the First Amendment, and after you have finished being appalled at this sow, remember…

This pernicious hemorrhoid is teaching children. She’s teaching children SOCIAL STUDIES. She’s teaching them that criticizing the President can get them arrested. She’s actually lying in an effort to threaten her student, telling him that people were arrested during Bush’s presidency for criticizing the Commander-in-Chief.

Where did this shrieking banshee get its teaching certificate? Online diploma mill?

Is it any wonder our high schools are graduating drooling ignorants who can barely spell their own names, have no clue who the Vice President is, and couldn’t point out France on a map?

Is it any wonder they turn 18 and cast their votes without thought… without research… without questioning what dumb fascist sows like this one figuratively beat into their heads in class?

How does a social studies teacher not know that the purpose of the First Amendment is to prevent exactly the type of punishment for political speech she claims will take place if you criticize the government?

How does a social studies teacher not know or understand the definition of “slander?”

How does a social studies teacher get so mired in her own political ideology, she refuses to objectively teach her students?

And worse yet… why has this fascist sow not been fired?

Why is she suspended WITH PAY?

Why does she get to sit home and enjoy the taxpayer money she receives for doing nothing but indoctrinating her students and verbally abusing those who will not goosestep to her adoration of der Fuhrer in der White House?

Why does she continue to receive taxpayer dollars, even as she lies to, abuses and bullies those kids in her class who voice disagreement with her frothing adulation of Teh One™ – the same kids whose parents pay this fetid, bloated, bovine bitch’s salary?

Time to rid the school of this disease.

What does a Davis endorsement really mean?

So last week we read that former Congressman Tom Davis endorsed Chris Perkins in the race for the GOP nomination to challenge Gerry Connolly in Virginia’s 11th District.

Frankly, neither Rob nor I were particularly surprised by the announcement, and as far as I’m concerned establishment Republican endorsing establishment Republican is nothing new and all but expected.

But what does it mean, really, to get the endorsement of Tom Davis?

Well, let’s see. First, there’s this little tidbit from RedState.

Davis knows he can’t win in a convention where actual Republicans will be present and vote. The reason he can’t win in a convention is that he really doesn’t believe in hardly anything in the national Republican platform and he doesn’t much care for Republicans anyway. This sort of begs the question of why he wants to hold elective office as a Republican. Other than rank opportunism, of course.

Back in 2006, when Tom Davis and Mark Foley headed the Republican Main Street Partnership they spared no effort in denigrating conservatives within the Republican party. In 2006, when the RMSP was decimated at the polls they continued to blame conservatives, not noticing that conservatives didn’t get hurt that badly at the polls. Now Davis is blaming conservatives again.

And then there’s this.

D.C. Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) Porker of the Month for sponsoring a federal bailout of the Washington, D.C. Metro system. The National Capital Transportation Amendments Act of 2005 (H.R. 3496) provides $1.5 billion over 10 years to the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA).

Congress has bailed out WMATA three times since 1967, costing a total of $6.2 billion. A series of reports in The Washington Post in June 2005 detailed how Metro mismanaged $1 billion in projects. Metro spent $383 million purchasing faulty new subway cars that broke down and needed repairs as often as the old ones they were replacing. Hundreds of millions of dollars were wasted renovating cars and escalators many of which were made worse than before.

The public transportation system of only one metropolitan area should not be funded at the exclusion of others. The national debt stands at $8.4 trillion and the War on Terror has no end in sight. Pedestrian and bike improvements for Metro stations simply do not take precedence over genuine priorities and will further exacerbate Congress’ out-of-control spending.

Additionally, Davis’ spending votes weren’t exactly fiscally responsible while in Congress. Here’s just a sampling:

• Voted YES on revitalizing severely distressed public housing.
• Voted YES on more funding for Mexico to fight drugs.
• Voted YES on environmental education grants for outdoor experiences.
• Supports grants for brownfields remediation.
• Make EPA into a Cabinet department.
• Voted NO on withholding $244M in UN Back Payments until US seat restored.
• Voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks.

And, of course, any Republican described as the “GOP left” can’t be altogether a conservative alternative, now can he?

Rep. Thomas M. Davis III, the Virginia Republican who has assumed leadership of his party’s more liberal members of Congress, said yesterday that conservative groups such as the Club for Growth are hurting the party by refusing to help candidates who don’t pass their “litmus test” and by attacking some incumbent Republicans.

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Mr. Davis and Executive Director Sarah Chamberlain Resnick said the Club for Growth has complicated the re-election campaigns of Rep. Joe Schwarz of Michigan and Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island by attacking the incumbents and supporting their primary challengers.

Yeah. Lincoln Chafee of the Gang of 14.  Lincoln Chafee who was approached by Democratic Leader Harry Reid to switch parties thanks to his backing of federally-funded health care, strict environmental protections and a higher minimum wage and opposition to ANWR drilling. What a tragedy that the Club for Growth hadn’t endorsed this tool!

Davis loved Lincoln Chafee. Is it any wonder he endorsed yet another “moderate?”

In his time in Congress, Davis was all about the spending, and he has endorsed a candidate who doesn’t seem to understand our fiscal bind, hasn’t committed himself to cleaning up our financial house, and won’t even debate the issue.

Frankly, I think the last thing Ken Vaughn needs is a Davis endorsement!

NOT Bob Marshall – no way!

Virginia’s Republican primary will take place on June 13. There are four candidates vying for the chance to reclaim one of our Senate seats:

George Allen (of the “macaca” fame)

Jamie Radtke (of the Virginia Tea Party fame)

E.W. Jackson (of the S.T.A.N.D. fame)

And Bob Marshall (of the penis fame)

While I haven’t yet decided for whom I’ll cast my primary vote, I can tell you one thing – it will not be Bob Marshall.

It’s not because he happens to be a social conservative. I know plenty of those. They don’t bother me unless they try to shove their religiosity down my throat. But Marshall is a frothing fundamentalist fruitcake of the highest order.

This is the same Bob Marshall who fought to prevent single women from getting artificial insemination. Because, it’s apparently OK for him to stick his rather large, craggy proboscis up the vaginal canals and into the uteruses (uteri?) of Virginia’s women.

This is the same Bob Marshall who claimed that disabled children were divine retribution for abortion!

This is the same Bob Marshall who is so afraid of catching TEH GHEY™ that he attempted to prevent gay service members from serving in the Virginia National Guard by claiming that repeal of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy will erode morale and weaken recruiting and retention. Of course, Bob has never actually served in the military himself in any capacity, but apparently feels himself erudite and experienced enough to speak for the military.

Well, guess what. DADT repeal did not do a damn thing to upend, upset or otherwise hinder our military.

Not that Bob Marshall would care, because he’s so rationally upset at the thought of two people of the same gender spending their lives together and sleeping in one bed, that he will do anything and say anything to prevent this from happening.

His latest “victory” is his successful leadership of the effort to block an openly gay man from becoming a district judge, citing his concerns that Tracy Thorne-Bergland has a “pattern of behavior” as an activist for some radical gay agenda.

And what makes Bob Marshall say this?

Thorne-Bergland apparently came out of the closet while he was serving his nation in the military to challenge the ban on homosexuals serving openly in the military. He committed the heinous crime of challenging a policy that doesn’t even exist any longer.

Thorne-Bergland “would have been an outstanding judge,” according to his boss, Richmond Commonwealth’s Attorney Michael N. Herring.

Thorne-Bergland is a former fighter pilot, who had broad bipartisan support from the Courts of Justice Committee for the judgeship, who is raising twins with his partner, but he committed the egregious act of wanting to serve his nation. TO SERVE. TO RISK HIS LIFE TO PROTECT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. Serve while he was gay.

This somehow translates to a violation of his oath to Bob Marshall, who is obviously unfamiliar with the oath we take when we join the military.

[Thorne-Begland] had to misstate his background in order to be received into the military in the late 1980s. There was a specific question, “are you a homosexual?” He had to say no. He took an oath of office which he had to defy. . . . 

Could Bob please tell us where in the holy flying fuck he sees “I do solemnly affirm that I will not plug another guy in the ass” in that particular oath?

I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

Yeah, I didn’t think so.

The whole regulation on gays in the military didn’t even come about until the 1940s.  It’s not in the oath of either enlistment or the oath officers take when they join the armed services. It’s not a promise, a vow or an oath. It was a regulation – one that has now been invalidated.

Bob continued digging by claiming that “sodomy is not a civil right.”

But our right to our own bodies is. It’s basic. There’s no property more private or basic than the right to own one’s own body, and by extension to do with it as we please.

But besides, that the “sodomy is not a civil right” claim has already been decided by the Supreme Court. Whether Bob agrees with the decision or not, constitutionally, the court decided in Lawrence v. Texas that sodomy between consenting adults is constitutionally protected. If Bob claims to love and respect the Constitution as much as he claims, how is he blatantly and willfully ignoring a SCOTUS decision that happens to go against his personal beliefs? SCOTUS is, after all, the nation’s highest court of appeals.

I guess, Bob feels it’s OK to ignore the Law of the Land if it involves two guys doing the horizontal mambo in their own homes.

Bob Marshall doesn’t have respect for the Constitution, for personal rights or for the very basic right to control our own bodies. Does anyone really expect him to protect their rights in Washington?

So no. This drooling, ignorant cretin won’t be getting my vote. And if he, by some miracle, he manages to get the GOP nomination, I’ll gladly vote for Tim Kaine.

Asking for Trouble

Remember my last blog post about the warped mommy with the breastfeeding exhibitionist kink?

Yeah, that’s what I’m thinking.