Not Larry Sabato

My Favorite Friday Link of 2010

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Obama's 2012 Problem

Only 25% of students in high school think he has done a "good" or "very good" job.  By 2012, that's your pool of college students voting.  Yikes.

Cooch Uses Lawsuits To Raise Money

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See the full letter here. (Full letter thanks to HisRoc)

Excellent Job By Governor McDonnell

Lowell has more.  I'm impressed.

See the original story here.

Oil Spill 5 Times Greater Than Previously Thought

Just think- if Bob McDonnell had his way this could all be ours.

Pat Herrity on Fox News

No idea why he did this on the phone instead of going to the studio.

Game 7 Tonight

Please continue to support the Beard-a-thon- and hopefully it goes on past tonight!  Go Caps!  I'll have new pictures of the beard posted tonight, win or lose.

UPDATE: Sigh.  I think this is the 6th time I've seen the Caps blow a 3-1 series lead.  At least it wasn't the Penguins this time.

Thanks to everyone who particpated in the beard-a-thon- we had 10 donors for $345- which was the 18th highest of all the beards!  I'll take one last picture before the shave.

Microchip Update- UPDATED

In Georgia, they are now having the same debate we had in Virginia this winter about the forced implantation of micro-chips.  As TPM reports:

At the intersection of political paranoia and old-fashioned, clinical paranoia you'll find microchips. Tuesday, we brought you the story of a Georgia woman who appeared before lawmakers debating a microchip implant ban and testified that the Department of Defense had implanted a chip in her "vaginal-rectum area."

Here in Virginia, the bill passed the House of Delegates by a shocking margin- helped by a speech in support from David Englin.  Luckily Dick Saslaw set up a special committee in the State Senate to kill the bill and prevent us from becoming a national laughingstock on yet another issue.

No word yet on the Georgia woman with the defense department implanted microchip in her "vaginal-rectum area" will be doing a fundraiser for Englin to thank him for his help.  We'll keep you posted. 

UPDATE: VA Blogger in the comments brings us the news that no fundraiser is planned.  The Englin's are obviously very upset and the graphic is back on the right...

Is It Worth It To Drill Off The Virginia Coast?

I was actually about to write this same post with the exact same image, but Waldo beat me to it.

Governor Roboto Steps In It At NG Announcement

Just got back from the press conference with Wes Bush and Bob McDonnell announcing that Northrop Grumman had selected Virginia to move its corporate HQ to from California.  As you can imagine, the press assembled wanted to know what put Virginia over the top.  Governor McDonnell cited our right to work law, litigation climate and lower taxes.

While the press conference was polite- none of those things were cited by Bush.  He cited the "competitive incentive package" and our "proximity" (presumably to the Pentagon which is on the Virginia side of the river). 

After the press conference I got a chance to chat with Mr. Bush for a minute and asked him to elaborate.  Specifically on the "right to work law" since most of Northrop Grumman's employees are unionized.  Bush said they have a "fantastic" relationship with their unions and that wouldn't be changing, nor was that a reason they selected Virginia.

And Northrop Grumman is incorporated in Delaware, so corporate tax rate wasn't it either.

Unlike some of the blogs on the left, I'm not going to bash Governor McDonnell on this- I'm sure he worked very hard to lobby NG to come to Virginia.

But the Governor Roboto shit needs to stop.  None of the reasons McDonnell cited (other than the incentive package- duh) were also cited by the company as being reasons they moved to Virginia.  Making talking points up from the campaign and attaching them to decisions like this borders on an outright lie. At a minimum the Governor should get the IQ not to union bash with comments about our "right to work" law in a press conference with one of the biggest union employers in Virginia.