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Award of the State 0

Dan Casey hands out the “2013 Dano Awards for Glaring Stupidity awards” and the Regent is one of the winners. A nugget:

People love to grouse about others who are on the dole, so this year we have a new category, the Dano for Welfare Recipient of the Year. It’s bestowed along with a corollary, the Dano for Welfare Benefactor of the Year.

This year’s winner of the former is the first family of Virginia. Gov. Bob McDonnell, his wife Maureen, their offspring and (indirectly) the governor’s sister received something like $165,000 worth of stuff.

See the rest of the winners at the link.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos, The End 0

Fall of the last cuckoo (updated to reflect changes in the source):

Virginia’s ballyhooed attorney general recount came to an early end today when Republican candidate Mark Obenshain conceded the race to Democrat Mark Herring.

Watch for the exciting sequel, now in the planning stages: Unticketed and Unhinged! Return of the Cooch.

This is the first time in almost a generation that all three state-wide Democratic candidates–Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and Attorney-General–have won.

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“The Rich Are Different from You and Me” 0

If you are poor, it’s a handout.

If you are rich, it’s an investment.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos, the Final Countdown (Updated) 0

The Virginia State Board of Elections certified state Sen. Mark Herring (D) as the winner of the Virginia attorney general race on Monday.

The board confirmed that Herring won by a slim 165-vote margin, beating Sen. Mark Obenshain, the Republican candidate in the race.

In Virginia, there is no such thing as an automatic recount, but I expect that Obenshain will request one before the 10-day time limit expires.

Just imagine what would have happened if the Republican Party had gutted out just a few more votes.

Addendum, the next evening:

The forces of reaction and patriarchy never give up.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos, Rand Gesture Dept. 0

Rand Paul urges voters to vote for Cuccinelli, who opposes abortion, oral sex, divorce, etc., because liberty.

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Colbert on Cooch and the Cuckoos 0

Moved below the fold because it autoplays on some systems.

Autoplaying is rude.

Read more »

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Cooch and the Cuckoos on Crusade 0

This is the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

Via The Richmonder.

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Probing Cooch and Cuckoos 0

Via The Richmonder.

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Little Ricky Circles Cooch and the Cuckoos 0

I posted this earlier, then took it down while trying to shoot some trouble (H/T to George Smith for notifying me of the trouble.)

But it’s so important I’m trying again.

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy

Via The Richmonder.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos’ Bedroom Eyes 0

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Cooch and the Cuckoos: Support Slip-Sliding Away 0

Longest serving Virginia Republican in the Virginia General Assembly endorses McAuliffe.

Via The Richmonder.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos Vex the Polity 0

In this case, it’s one of the cuckoos, Lt. Gov. candidate E. W. “Fire and Brimstone” Jackson, who’s backpedaling.

Challenged by a Jewish audience to defend his assertion that non-Christians are followers of “false religion,” Republican candidate for lieutenant governor E.W. Jackson backed off to some degree.

The evangelical Christian minister from Chesapeake has been on the defensive for declaring in a sermon in Northern Virginia last month that people who don’t follow Jesus Christ “are engaged in some sort of false religion.”

Note that he said it just last week; it’s not something dredged up, as they say, from the deep dark past.

Follow the link for his lame attempts to paint his comments as rational.

I’d like to say more, but I’m rather speechless. I think his conduct speaks quite nicely for itself, though.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos Court the Crazy 0

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Bad News for the Cooch 0

The Richmond Times-Dispatch, usually a reliable right-wing lapdog, can’t bring itself to endorse him. It’s sitting out the endorsements this year.

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Cantor’s Cant 0

Explicated here.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos Get Duggared 0

Watch the Duggars from some “reality” show or other try to record a spot for the Cooch.

There is a back story. Cooch is scraping an empty carton for endorsements.

Via the Richmonder.

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Cooch and the Cuckoos Go for a Cruz 0

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Local Republican Hangs Up His Teabags 7

Cory Dillard is vice chair of the Norfolk* Republican Party and was one of the organizers of the teabaggery in these parts. He’s had enough.

He details enough of what in my local rag. A nugget:

As a person who tries to put forth valid solutions to the problems of the day, I cannot continue to be aligned with a movement that would rather burn a house than work to put out its fire, whose victories history may largely record as pyrrhic.

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*Norfolk is as solidly Democratic as Virginia Beach is Republican.

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Cooch, Cuckoos, and Cluelessness 0

A perfect threesome.

Let Dick Polman explain.

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Freedom of Religion 0

Not on local wingnut Bill DeSteph’s watch.

You betcha.

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