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Originally Posted by Riot

Occurred today. Big Government intrusion into your health care and finances. Unbelievable what Gods Own Party feels empowered to do. Citizen payback at the election booth is a bit.ch.

Schapiro: Gov. McDonnell channels Capt. Queeg.

Gov. McDonnell is channeling Captain Queeg — without the marbles.

Humphrey Bogart, as the off-center commander in "The Caine Mutiny," raged, "I tried to run the ship properly, by the book. But they fought me at every turn."

Bob McDonnell, as the right-of-center commander in chief, attacks a news media that, in his mind, fights him at every turn, casting Virginia as the Mississippi of the Mid-Atlantic and him as the Mullah of Movement Conservatism.

Unloading before a sympathetic audience, the online edition of the conservative National Review, McDonnell criticized reporters and pundits for focusing on pistols, probes and personhood rather than poll-tested proposals that are supposed to lift him to the vice presidency. And he alleged liberal bias in the media.

Really, what do you expect from the lamestream media?...btw, this paper leans hard right.

"If you just read the papers, you have no idea what's going on in the legislature because the reporting has been so poor this session," said McDonnell.

"There has been inordinate focus on about three or four bills, to the exclusion of the other 1,000 bills — especially the big stuff such as higher ed, K-12, energy, veterans, pension reform and a lot of other things that are very significant and are getting virtually no attention. It's been pretty poor overall."

This is news to us.

"We have reported substantially on the budget, the state pension fund, education reform and key pieces of the governor's legislative agenda as well as issues surrounding abortion and gun rights that have sparked great public interest this year," said Times-Dispatch Editor Daniel Finnegan.

"And we have not heard one complaint from the governor."

Victimhood is a favorite strategy of politicians sinking in a bog of unflattering news stories. In this instance, it also means McDonnell becomes the narrative — again.

Hello! He's a politicion - what's new...


http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2...eg-ar-1756486/