The exciting political news keeps rolling out of Virginia. Yes, we know the State of the Union address is tonight — and that coke-head Republican Congressman from Southwest Florida has resigned — and that Greta Van Susteren and Erick Erickson are in a cat fight. But right now, our eyes are trained on the Old Dominion.
Democrats are taking control of the state Senate at noon today, thanks to last fall's election of a tie-breaking Lieutenant Governor, Ralph Northam, and a subsequent special election to fill Northam's former Senate seat that we just won by eleven votes. Don't tell us cats that every vote doesn't count!
When the state Senate convenes today, we'll find out how Democrats plan to handle committee assignments, and whether Northam will use his vote to help determine them. If he does, Republicans will be very mad — even though that's exactly what they did when their guy was Lieutenant Governor.
Meanwhile, Governor Terry McAuliffe has declined to appoint a special prosecutor to defend Virginia's unconstitutional ban on marriage equality. As you can imagine, GOP legislators — led by a nutcase delegate from here in Prince William County — are sputtering in fury.
Surveying the Republican wreckage, we cats can't help thinking back to our favorite right-wing punching bag, Ken "Fetuses Should Be Able To Get Married, Too" Cuccinelli.
Just think: If the Cootch had stuck to his pledge not to run for Governor in 2013 — but wait his turn and run for another four years as Attorney General instead — he now could be re-elected and serving under Republican Governor Bill Bolling. He'd be gleefully closing more abortion clinics and denying more and more gay Virginians their rights.
But what's he got? The Macker in the Executive Mansion, Democrats in control of the Senate, and a permanent place in the political wilderness. We cats PURR.
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