Dodging and Weaving

Gov. Pat McCrory (NC-Bathroom Bill), is, as might be expected, blaming everyone else for the backlash over North Carolina's sweeping discrimination law:

This hornet’s nest, he argued, was first kicked not by him, but by the Democratic City Council in Charlotte, which passed a nondiscrimination ordinance in February allowing transgender people to use men’s or women’s bathrooms. Before it passed, he said, he emailed the Council to warn it that if it changed “basic restroom and locker room norms,” he would be forced to support a state law overriding them.

On Thursday, he said he suspected that the entire matter had been orchestrated by Democrats and the Human Rights Campaign, a national gay rights group, to give Democrats an advantage in a tight governor’s race.

It's the Charlotte' City Council's fault, for passing a non-discrimination ordinance that protected not only gays and lesbians, but trans folk. He actually said that.

Oh, and of course it's the Democrats and the Human Rights Campaign orchestrating the smear campaign. Right. The HRC can organize a cocktail party, and that's about it. And from the looks of things, the Democrats don't need to do much to make him look bad -- he's doing quite well on that score by himself.

Maybe if he hadn't been so quick to take ownership of the bill, he wouldn't find it sticking to him now.

Sheesh! Where do they find these people?

Footnote: It's getting worse.