In this morning's edition, Jeff Schapiro of the Richmond Times-Dispatch writes: The first test of political repercussions of the Kaine budget may occur about 100 miles north of the state Capitol, in a January special election in Fairfax County for a state Senate seat vacated by Republican [...] 
A little Rule 5 for a cold Saturday.
It is respectfully recommended that you listen to “Under the boardwalk” by The Drifters as you view today’s selections:
[...] It took about 15 minutes for Del. Bill Howell and Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell to shoot down the [...]
Warner and Webb both will vote to cut off cloture, which needs 60 votes. Then only 51 votes are needed to pass the socialization of health care, so senators who are afraid of re-election next year, can vote against it and shuck and jive their constituents…..
[...]On December 3, 2009, PWCS announced the resignation of Neabsco District School Board member Julie Lucas, effective December 31. Ms. Lucas was a dedicated board member who appeared to have the best interest of all PW kids on the front burner. She was accessible and was highly regarded by parents, [...]
It's not the electorates fault that they are overweight, obese, have coronary disease, smoke, drink, and do not exercise but continue to gather at the buffet line without regard as to what they are doing to themselves....We must provide them universal health care for [...] 
The following is from Rich Anthony, running for Congress as a Democrat from the 10th CD and hoping to replace the Eric Cantor rubber stamp (formerly a self-professed "moderate" Republican) Frank Wolf. Rich's campaign website is now fully operational.
Today, Tim Kaine will unveil his last budget as Governor of Virginia, and as Jeff Schapiro said recently, this will be a "political document" like all other budgets before it. Of course, as Schapiro pointed out, Kaine will "deny this with that smiley-faced earnestness he fine-tuned as a" [...] 
Governor Tim Kaine will unveil his budget proposal that he hands off to Governor-Elect McDonnell on Friday. Virginia faces a $3.5 Billion shortfall over the next 2 years. One place this money can be made up in part is to repeal the car tax. Currently, Virginia is [...]
Bear in mind as you watch the following that it was only a little over nine years ago that Lieberman was running on the Democrat ticket as their vice presidential candidate. My how times have changed:
I want to take a moment to thank the lovely citizens of Minnesota for electing [...]
Note: vulgarity alert (below the fold)
I can understand a blogger supporting a preferred candidate or elected official. What I can’t grasp is what would drive one to personally attack an elderly lady expressing her opinion as a “pathetic old woman” when she happens not to like that candidate. Has [...]
Yesterday, CCC commented on TIME Magazine’s selection of Ben Bernanke as the publication’s Person of the Year for 2009. The selection is appropriate because of the influence of Bernanke’s actions on world events. TIME has indeed made some notorious selections in the past.
So what did Bernanke do? Here [...]
As 2009 draws to a close, the Tea Party movement continues generating controversy, at the local, state and federal levels. But despite the successful press from media outlets such as FoxNews, Politico and others, the tea party movement fails to deliver where it matters most: elections. [...]
The upcoming observance of the Mourning of Muharram in Iran will likely see more protests by reformers upset by the election results last June in the nation’s presidential election as well as the country’s general downward spiral in its economy and relations [...] 
Virginia's 1st Congressional District is not exactly the "bluest" around. However, Barack Obama did quite well there in 2008, winning 48% of the vote, an improvement over Tim Kaine's 46% of the vote in 2005 and Jim Webb's 44% in 2006. Next year, Democrats will select a nominee to [...] 
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This winter, the Virginia Young Democrats have hired two organizers to help Democrat Dave Marsden in his race to fill Attorney General-Elect Ken Cuccinelli's open State [...]
