Tea Party opposes domestic violence bill

Any time the legislature in your state goes back to work and you read through the list of new bills, you always find some that are common sense, some that are nutty, some that are nutty that everyone acts like are common sense, and some that don't do much of anything. But Kentucky's H.B. 8 is common sense.

H.B. 8 would beef up the laws on domestic violence orders to protect dating partners. Right now, Kentucky laws on domestic violence orders are tragically weak, as dating partners can't even win such orders. This bill would help remedy this gap.

Who could possibly be against this bill? If you think nobody could oppose it, then I assume you've never heard of the Tea Party. The "values voters" of yesteryear have donned Colonial-era hats and rebranded themselves once again, as if you didn't know.

The loldumb Northern Kentucky Tea Party is urging followers to call up lawmakers and tell them to vote against H.B. 8. They don't really give any reason why they're against it. They just are.

Considering the disproportionate number of domestic violence perpetrators in the Tea Party, I guess it shouldn't be much of a surprise.