It was a good morning for bipartisanship. Depending how you look at it.
Republicans on the House General Laws Committee this morning effectively killed a measure supported by GOP Gov. Bob McDonnell to rename the Governor’s Development Opportunity Fund to the Commonwealth Economic Development Fund.
The bill, however, was carried [...]
Legislation to sell state-owned liquor stores and devote the proceeds to transportation won’t pass this session. Sen. Mark Obenshain effectively withdrew his measure today to divest the state of its Alcoholic Beverage Control stores.
Former Governor-turned-Mayor Doug Wilder has called on President Obama to remove Former Mayor-turned-Governor Tim Kaine as the head of the Democratic National Committee.
Wilder to Obama: Remove Kaine as DNC chairman
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Wilder said Kaine should be fired as part of a larger house cleaning [...]
Public Policy Polling looks at the preferences of under-30 voters from its recent polls.
Dems Health Care Reform
. . . the terrorists have already won.
Alternative title: You’re either with us or you’re against us.
[...]. . . the terrorists have already won.
Alternative title: You’re either with us or you’re against us.
[...]While I wouldn’t call it a RINO (Republican In Name Only) watch list, the Virginia State Republican Senators listed below voted in favor of
SB 517 Wireless telecommunications devices; prohibits talking on such device unless in hands-free mode.
On it’s face, the bill seems a reasonable infringement on Virginian’s rights, [...]
In a desperate move to regain lost political footing, President Obama’s Deputy Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism John Brennan stated that Obama’s critics may be “serving the goals of al Qaeda.”
It only gets better when he suggests that the way Obama’s critics are serving [...]
Trick question! Liberals don't know how to debate!
But it took three to avoid addressing any real issues about Sarah Palin. Although Pam Geller raised valid issues, the best Joy Behar, Ron Reagan, and Stephanie Miller could do was hurl petty, childish insults at Sarah Palin and make cliterectomy jokes' [...]
Fred Kaplan asks a question that really does need more attention: “Are there any Republican grown-ups out there, and, if there are, will they ever start coming to the aid of their party?”
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Colbert covers Sarah Palin’s Tea Party speech and much, much more:
The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Sarah Palin Uses a Hand-O-Prompter www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Economy
Bert Mizusawa had a tremendous fundraising quarter – raising nearly $200,000, with over 75% from donations.
However, an opposing campaign emailed their analysis of his numbers and stated that a majority of his donations came from outside the district. I asked Mizusawa about this and he [...]
Last we heard from him, Doug Wilder (D? R? I?) was busy agonizing over whether to endorse Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds, or nobody for governor of Virginia. In the end, after forcing us to watch his Hamlet routine for days and weeks on end, he decided neither to "be" [...] That’s the message the current president needs to send to W. after adopting, wholesale, the former administration’s position on spying on American citizens. Today’s column has the details.
[...]Two JMU students were arrested by the Harrisonburg Police Department on Saturday. Big deal, right? But what’s making waves is what they were arrested for, and the charges they now face.Ryan Knight and Charles Gill, both 21, were arrested in the 1300 block of Devon Lane and charged with [...]
Someone in Minnesota is running the billboard pictured above.
Umm, I think it’s pretty clear the answer is no.
This is the same guy who increased non-defense discretionary spending at a faster pace than Lyndon Johnson, gave us the biggest [...]
Apparently, even the most libertarian Member of Congress isn’t immune from attack by the populist Tea Party movement:
WASHINGTON – Even anti-government icon Ron Paul can’t escape the conservative “Tea Party” fervor stretching across the county.
Paul, the Gulf Coast congressman whose 2008 presidential run excited libertarians nationwide, even though he [...]
Congressman Randy Forbes has launched a nifty idea. If the federal budget goes up, Congressional pay goes down.
“Next week, I will introduce legislation to break Congress’ addiction to spending by tying the salaries of Members of Congress to the growth in government spending. The premise [...]
City Manager Kurt Hodgen has officially declared a local emergency in Harrisonburg, due to the amount of snow we have already received, and additional accumulation expected today and tomorrow. The city just sent out this announcement:
The declaration is the result of the two significant snowfalls of last week that the [...]
[...] 
Most Corrupt Politician Murtha
I have tried for nearly a day to find something nice to say about John Murtha on the occasion of his death. I have been unsuccessful. I wish I could find something of value in his decades of public life [...]
Eileen Levandoski says,
Sometimes, these days, it seems like mean habits die so slowly that we're standing stuck in the mud and there's no hope of change. The hyperventilating media have a way of making it appear true. So, when some of us get frustrated with the pace of' [...] SHORTER Arnaud de Borchgrave: "If we bomb Iran now, it will restore downtrodden American spirits and stop the impending Iranian EMP attack against the United States of America."
Now this might seem that only a really crazy person would say this, but Mr. de Borchgrave, a Belgian-born American "journalist," is [...]
In an op-ed in USA Today, White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan charges that critics who question the Obama administration's decision to grant Miranda rights to accused Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab are "serv[ing] the goals of al Qaeda."
He says that "The most important breakthrough occurred after Abdulmutallab" [...]
...the ones who aren't Racists, Rightwing Extremists, or simply "un-American" citizens, of course.
The rest just dislike the Obamessiah only because they support terrorists:
In an oped in USA Today, John Brennan -- Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism' [...]
Governor Bob McDonnell has reversed a budget decision by predecessor Tim Kaine, which could leave a gap of up to $7 million in Albemarle County Public Schools’ upcoming budget.
Kaine, as a cost-saving measure, decided to freeze implementation of biennial changes to Virginia’s composite index, a move that “saved” state government [...]
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