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Under Republicans, Congressmen had a three-day work week, from Tuesday through Thursday. No more: Rep. John Murtha says Dems are taking the House back to a five-day work week, ending the single laziest era in the history of the U.S. Congress. Wonderful, wonderful news — this is the sort of change that I dared not …
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The Republican talking points on Tuesday’s election results is that they’re a huge win for conservatives. I, for one, welcome this new definition of “conservative.”
The deadline is fast approaching for applications to the 2007 Political Leaders Program at the Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership — Monday is the final day they’ll be accepted. The ten-month-long Political Leaders Program is Sorensen’s flagship program, teaching about public policy, campaigning and ethics in monthly weekend-long sessions that meet in a different part …
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Claire Guthrie Gastanaga: Allen lost because of the Marshall/Newman amendment. I’d speculated that might be so, but didn’t dare say anything because I figured people would think I’m nuts. Claire, on the other hand, has the numbers to back it up.
Chad Dotson is taking a break from blogging, possibly for good. Seems to me all the reasonable Virginia political bloggers are disappearing. I expect will end up with a supermajority of people who don’t know how to disagree without being disagreeable. That won’t be fun.
During the election, some Virginia Republicans confused Jim Webb with his supporters. Senator-elect Webb is a conservative Democrat. The man was a Republican until just a few years ago. His most vocal supporters consist largely of liberal Democrats, and this gave some people on the far left and far right the impression that he is …
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I must point out, post-election, that the Mary Sue Terry prophecy is fulfilled. Blessed be Mary Sue.
Del. Bob Brink intends to introduce legislation to restrict robocalls in Virginia. Yay — I’m sick of them. I don’t care how effective they are. If it had the side effect of making it illegal for Blockbuster to call me three times a week for six months running to ask me to return a video …
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I’m not happy about winning yesterday. We Democrats have had so many false peaks in the past half decade, so many times when it looked like we were going to win. And then we lose. It’s been so long since we were in power that I think I just can’t fathom it. Perhaps it’s an …
The AP has declared Jim Webb the winner in the Senate race. CNN (TV, not online) is reporting that the Allen campaign says they think they’ll throw in the towel tomorrow. The canvas simply isn’t going to reveal enough votes to do Allen any good.