A coupla years ago, the Repubs in the Virginia legislature tried to get a little too cute enacting laws (eg) requiring women to have an extra and totes unnecessary trans-vaginal ultrasound before being allowed to exercise their rights under the US Constitution, and ever since then I've felt a deep compulsion to refer to the "honorable" Gov McDonnell (R-VA) as 'Vaginal Bob'. Well - as Rachel is kind enough to not-quite-explain-in-full, we might have to add a second orifice to Ol' Vaginal Bob's monicker.
It just never fails, kids. You put authoritarian assholes in office, and they eventually start acting like authoritarian assholes. Why does this continue to come as a surprise to people?
Now, you can make a fair case that most people who wanna run things are usually a bit on the authoritarian side of the spectrum (especially when they wanna run an organization that comes with a police force and a military and all the cool guns and tanks and bombs and shit), but that tendency to swing the big power dick is why we're supposed to have this little thing called "a system of checks and balances".
Guys like Vaginal Bob McDonnell and Ken (Kenny the Kooch) Cuccinelli have been playing this game all over the world for as long as we've been up walkin' around on our hind legs. But we're the exception, remember? We don't play that shit here.
It just never fails, kids. You put authoritarian assholes in office, and they eventually start acting like authoritarian assholes. Why does this continue to come as a surprise to people?
Now, you can make a fair case that most people who wanna run things are usually a bit on the authoritarian side of the spectrum (especially when they wanna run an organization that comes with a police force and a military and all the cool guns and tanks and bombs and shit), but that tendency to swing the big power dick is why we're supposed to have this little thing called "a system of checks and balances".
Guys like Vaginal Bob McDonnell and Ken (Kenny the Kooch) Cuccinelli have been playing this game all over the world for as long as we've been up walkin' around on our hind legs. But we're the exception, remember? We don't play that shit here.
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