He won’t even be leaving town.
He’ll be giving his response to the President at the Capitol here in Richmond.
A few days ago Democratic legislators told the media they were very proud that a Virginian was so honored (again).
The headline in The Post read Senate Democrats Praise McDonnell’s State of the Union Honor.
Roz Helderman quotes Janet [...]
Two days after President Obama went to Massachusetts to campaign for Democrat senatorial candidate Martha Coakley in a special election Democrats thought she had locked against Republican insurgent Scott Brown, Obama visited Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia on Tuesday to announce his plans to seek $1.35 billion in his next budget for [...]
Amy Gardner says Morgan Griffith’s considering
A run against Rick Boucher in 2010.
With Terry Kilgore declining to run, it appeared that Boucher might get a free pass this year- something that had to be on the gift list of every incumbent congressional Democrat this past holiday season.
But Griffith told Gardner that “someone needs to run against [...]
Q. Will an Obamacare health Czar decide how you spend your income, or will you?
A. Obamacare requires individuals to purchase private health insurance fashioned and approved by the Obama Administration or be fined $1900, face a year in jail and pay penalties up to $25,000 (half the median income of American families). Penalties can start [...]
I keep dry dog food in a metal trash can–with a lid–in the mud room just off our back porch. I left the lid askew day before yesterday and the next morning heard something skittering around in the can–a plump mouse, about the size of an egg. We have a new cat. (You know where [...]
The largest industry in Virginia is not agriculture/forestry. Though the Farm Bureau likes to bray that it is, the combined components of this good endeavor are a distant, distant second. It is not technology, not ship building, not coal mining, not railroads, not manufacturing, not health care, not construction, not utilities, not tourism. The largest [...]
Again.
One might think so.
The visibility of the former Senator and Governor has been far higher during the past three or four months than at any time since 2006.
He actively campaigned for the statewide ticket in the fall. He joined with Paul Goldman to promote a plan to fund construction of inner city schools. And yesterday [...]
1. VITA Mess Worsens
Yesterday’s story by Peter Bacque in the RTD introduced a new element into the VITA mess. It seems that problems about cost and contractor performance (as important as these are) are not the only significant issues. Bacque notes that “Virginia’s new expensive IT system does not have network backups in case connections [...]
Dems Call Cantor a Hypocrite on Stimulus
Kaine House GOP headed for Showdown
Kaine Wants Hamilton Inquiry to Continue
Kaine Cites Concerns on Virginia’s Budget, Roads
Allen-Goldman Tax Credit Plan Backed by Richmond Crusade
VDOT Budget Facing $84 Million Ax
State Budget Analyst Proposes Putting Corrections Projects on Hold
Local Government Rates for Retiree Health Care Could Rise
Study Highlights Tax Burden Disparity
CAIR [...]
John Nance “Cactus Jack” Garner, our 32nd Vice President, once likened the job to “a warm bucket of spit.”
Such is Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor’s post-just a lot smaller.
Only Bill Bolling’s imagination could conjure, could elevate, this cup of spit into something resembling a cross between the president of the United Nations, administrator of the Marshall Plan, [...]