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• GOP Gambles on Health Politics, Loses on Policy

  —Blue Virginia

  Posted by The Green Miles
  
  Last summer, some center-right Senate Democrats like Max Baucus seemed eager to settle for half a loaf on health insurance reform and make massive concessions to Republicans like Chuck Grassley. But as Jonathan Chait writes at The New Republic, [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 10:41am EST
  

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• Could Kaine's Budget Beat Marsden?

  —Blue Virginia

  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 [...]

  Posted: December 20, 2009, 6:59am EST
  

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• A tax increase? Is he &%*!^%*# kidding me?!

  —Virginia Virtucon

  In a move that was best described by Norm at TQ (a “rude gesture”), Tim Kaine is proposing to balance the budget with an income tax increase (Washington Post).  Virginia Republicans, led by Governor-elect McDonnell (WaPo) are already busy tearing it apart, but one thing that has been lost is [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 7:46pm EST
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• A tax increase? Is he &%*!^%*# kidding me?!

  —Right-wing liberal

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  In a move that was best described by Norm at TQ (a “rude gesture”), Tim Kaine is proposing to balance the budget with an income tax increase (Washington Post).  Virginia Republicans, led by Governor-elect McDonnell (WaPo) are already busy tearing it apart, but one thing that has been lost is [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 7:41pm EST
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• One less GOP candidate in the 2nd?

  —Pilot on Politics

  That's what it looks like according to reports over at Bearing Drift and a statement distributed by another candidate in the race, which both indicate that Chuck Smith has dropped out of the contest for the Republican nomination to face Congressman Glenn Nye (D) in 2010. [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 7:11pm EST
  

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• Hypocrical Democrat Grayson wants jail for blogger who criticized him

  —SWAC Girl

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  Unbelievable. What a hypocrite.
  
  Politico reports that Democrat Alan Grayson of Florida wants to imprison a blogger who is critical of him:
  File this story under the pot calling the kettle black.Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.), prone for throwing his own political bombs at Republicans, has threatened a local [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 10:13am EST
  by SWAC Girl

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• Derrick Jackson & Victoria Reggie Kennedy want this health care bill

  —Blue Commonwealth

  Two op eds relevant to health care appear in major newspapers this morning.  In The Boston Globe Derrick Jackson offers Laying down the law on health reform which begins HEALTH CARE reform is now so bizarre that the Republicans are the ones screaming that the Democrats' proposals are terrible' [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 9:46am EST
  

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• Delegate Kirk Cox takes lead in fighting against Gov. Kaine's tax increases

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  Posted by MAXIMUS
  
  "Del. Kirk Cox, R-Colonial Heights, was dismissive of any boost to the state's income tax, calling it "simply shifting to another tax increase." Cox, a budget negotiator, said raising the income tax would not fly in the Republican-dominated House."I see that as having no chance to [...]

  Posted: December 19, 2009, 8:10am EST
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• CONFIRMED: Chuck Smith Drops 2nd District Candidacy, Endorses Scott Rigell

  —Bearing Drift

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  From the Scott Rigell campaign, confirming what we first reported yesterday here…

  Chuck Smith Announces Withdrawal From His
  Campaign For the 2nd District Congressional Seat
  Endorses Scott Rigell for Congress

  VIRGINIA BEACH, VA: Chuck Smith, candidate for the Republican Party nomination for the 2nd District
  Congressional seat, [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 10:45pm EST
  by jr@bearingdrift.com (J.R. Hoeft)

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• The Evaporating Middle Class and American Power

  —Blue Commonwealth

  There are those who contend that a large, aware middle class is a prerequisite for democracy. Others turn that around: only a democracy can produce a middle class, which then acts as a bulwark of freedom. Still others, usually Republicans, maintain that democracy and freedom all hinge on a country's' [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:28pm EST
  

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• Dashing through the snow

  —Fishersville Mike

  Politico keeps you up-to-date on the Senate's quest to finish by Christmas. Good luck with that.
  John McCain tells the Republicans' travel plans.
  "Tomorrow, there's going to be a snowstorm, and we'll be coming in our RVs and everything will be paralyzed, as our nation's capital always is when" [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 8:25pm EST
  

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• Political suicide watch

  —Fishersville Mike

  Rich Lowry at NRO highlights this piece from Real Clear Politics. I liked this line toward the end.
  This bill may encourage a few Democratic policy wonks to run to the polls, but this trickle will be nothing compared to the flood of angry Republicans and Independents. And this [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 4:34pm EST
  

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• GOP sounds off on Kaine's budget...

  —The Shad Plank

  Here's the full statement from the Republican Party of Virginia: Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine today submitted his final budget that only stays in balance if a massive tax increase he included is implemented. Kaine has proposed ending personal property tax and replacing it with an increase in income [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 1:47pm EST
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• Approaching Snow Provides Reminder of What's Wrong With the Republican Leadership

  —Left of the Hill

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  It's no secret that the DC area pretty much shuts down whenever it snows. Even the hint of snow in the near future can cause a riot as everyone heads to the grocery store to make sure they have enough food in the house (hints why the Giant near my [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 1:40pm EST
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• Rich Anthony on Frank Wolf's Taxpayer-Funded, Six-Sided, Full-Color "Re-election Advertisement"

  —Blue Virginia

  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.
  Talk Is Cheap, but Issue Updates are free (unless [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 10:30am EST
  

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• "If Democrats did that, there would be cries of treason"

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  So, the same people who like to scream about how they "support the troops," and how the other party doesn't "support the troops," are now threatening a "serious disruption' in the military's ability to pay troops" at a time of war?
  Democrats were furious at the [Republican] [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 7:27am EST
  

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• "I don't want health care."

  —Blue Commonwealth

  Remember those words.  They were spoken late Thursday evening by Senator Sam Brownback before he voted to sustain an attempted filibuster of funding for the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq early this morning.

  And remember this:  in the House, with no filibuster, 164 of 175 Republicans voted FOR the emergency bill [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 6:14am EST
  

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• This is why I hate 3rd party supporting idiots

  —On The Right

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  Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly  have talked a lot about a 3rd party to go against both the Republican and democrat party. Beck and O’Reilly say both parties are the same and there is no difference in them. O’Reilly, Beck, and much of the Tea Party movement are backing or [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 11:30pm EST
  by Garrett Watson

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• This is why I hate 3rd party supporting idiots

  —Orange, VA Independence Day Tea Party

  Glenn Beck and Bill O’Reilly  have talked a lot about a 3rd party to go against both the Republican and democrat party. Beck and O’Reilly say both parties are the same and there is no difference in them. O’Reilly, Beck, and much of the Tea Party movement are backing or [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 11:29pm EST
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• Bearing Drift (R-VA Blogosphere): "Tea Parties are Not the Defenders of Conservatism"

  —Blue Virginia

  I've gotta say, I didn't expect this type of post from a Virginia Republican blog (although Bearing Drift is the epitome of sanity compared to most other Virginia Republican blogs). Note: bolding added by me for emphasis.
  Thankfully, the tea party movement has not surfaced in the [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 7:55pm EST
  

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• Thousands of signatures delivered to Webb: "No nationalized health care"

  —SWAC Girl

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  Petitions saying "no" to nationalized health care were delivered to Sen. Jim Webb's office in Virginia Beach Thursday afternoon.
  
  Petitions are delivered to Sen. Webb's Danville office.
  
  From Republican Party of Virginia...
  
  Virginia citizens have delivered to Senator [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:39pm EST
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• Witch-hunt in the 99th House District.

  —Virginia Virtucon

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  I first got wind of this little witch-hunt at the 1st Congressional District Republican Committee meeting on December 11th. I was sitting in the back of the room when Bill Kling (Crabill’s campaign manger) went to up Larry Kile (King George County Republican Committee Chairman), who was sitting about ten [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:32pm EST
  by Timothy Watson

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• Witch-hunt in the 99th House District.

  —On The Right

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  I first got wind of this little witch-hunt at the 1st Congressional District Republican Committee meeting on December 11th. I was sitting in the back of the room when Bill Kling (Crabill’s campaign manger) went to up Larry Kile (King George County Republican Committee Chairman), who was sitting about ten [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:31pm EST
  by Timothy Watson

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• Witch-hunt in the 99th House District.

  —I'm Surrounded By Idiots

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  I first got wind of this little witch-hunt at the 1st Congressional District Republican Committee meeting on December 11th. I was sitting in the back of the room when Bill Kling (Crabill’s campaign manger) went to up Larry Kile (King George County Republican Committee Chairman), who was sitting about ten [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 6:28pm EST
  by Timothy Watson

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• McConnell's thoughts

  —Fishersville Mike

  NRO has posted the latest thoughts on the health care bill from Sen. Mitch McConnell.
  The Democrats, he said, “are in a state of confusion. I have 40 unified Republicans and they have a bunch of different Democrats with different points of view.” “They're in a turmoil trying to' [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 4:18pm EST
  

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• Liberals turning on Liberals

  —The Contemporary Conservative

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  From Politico:
  In a stunning reversal of fortune for President Barack Obama, top progressives are attacking the health-reform plan moving through the Senate as “hollow,” “unsupportable” and a sellout to corporate interests. ..Republicans, after plotting for months to sink the signature legislation of Obama’s first year, suddenly think that [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:54pm EST
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• Another Republican running against Nye

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  This may be the first candidate to announce a Congressional run on Yahoo!Answers.

  Info is here.

  After 3 years of a spendthrift Democrat-controlled Congress, isn’t it time for real change in 2010?

  Under the Pelosi Congress, Federal spending has gotten out of control with a national debt now [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 8:52am EST
  by jr@bearingdrift.com (J.R. Hoeft)

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• Harry Reid Egregiously Inaccurate of GOP’s History

  —Red NoVA

  Guest post by Chris Malagisi. Chris will be resuming a normal posting schedule here on Red NoVA next year. Senator Harry Reid’s ignorant and partisan comments last week likening Republican opposition of socialized health care to that of slavery is egregiously and historically incorrect. The Democrat Senate Majority Leader should brush [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 1:59am EST
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• Michael Steele on 5th CD Republicans: "What's Your Goal?"

  —Blue Virginia

  
  Over at Decision Virginia, Ryan Nobles writes:
  While the level of Rees’ support is highly debatable. He is proposing a nightmare scenario that party leaders are hoping at all costs to avoid. If this race continues in the same trajectory it seems almost a necessity that the [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 10:29pm EST
  

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• Democrats in a slump. But so is the GOP

  —Tertium Quids

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  The new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds the Democratic party in a slide, one that has Peter Hart raising red flags:"For Democrats, the red flags are flying at full mast," said Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducts the survey with Republican pollster Bill McInturff. "What we don't know for'" [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:20pm EST
  by Norman Leahy

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