Senate Republicans a national punchline, again

Norman Leahy / January 24, 2013

The Virginia Senate’s redistricting maneuver has garnered some national attention. And, true to form, it’s as a punchline — exactly what the GOP was hoping that it would avoid this year through such measures as its “bargain” on social issues that would keep everything above the belt during this session.

Didn’t quite work out as planned…

To be fair on the Stonewall Jackson point, it was Democrat Creigh Deeds who took to the Senate floor to offer this four-minute econmium on the Confederate General. On Martin Luther King Day.