I can't take credit for the phrase, "Yes Virginia, there is a Panty Clause". A comment by Pat on Steve Gilliard's news blog made it.
That being said, it is an opportunity to frame the wingnut Virginia legislators as objects of mockery and derision.
When ever the VA legislature comes up, as opposed to saying something like, "Osama wants to kill us, and they are debating teen style faux pas," you get to say, ""Yes Virginia, there is a Panty Clause".
The loony left of the Democrats is used all the time to hold us all up to derision. It's time to do this to the right.
Does anyone know the a gag writer for Conan, Leno, or Letterman?