McDonnell’s appearance runs from the 1:20 mark through 3:10. It’s pretty funny, and encapsulates my response to his Potemkin SOTU.
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Perriello proposes prohibition on foreign corporate donations.
Rep. Tom Perriello is introducing a bill to make a brilliant modification to campaign finance law. It’s a bit breathtaking in its simplicity and utility. With the recent Supreme Court ruling (which is simultaneously legally correct and practically stupid), corporations can make unlimited contributions to candidates for political office. This will be, as anybody can …
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The Tea Party: Just like any other political party, only hopelessly naïve.
The Tea Party presents itself as a grassroots, jus’ folks, not-gonna-take-it-any-more uprising, consisting of regular people who were so fed up after several weeks of Barack Obama’s presidency that they just couldn’t take it anymore and they just had to do something. But that’s basically the opposite of what we’re seeing here in the fifth …
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McPadden on “when the going gets tough.”
This Fifth District Republican primary is really separating the men from the boys: [Robert] Hurt is a likable person personally, [Mike] McPadden said, but “Democrats and moderates like Hurt will vote to raise taxes when the going gets tough.” That’s right—if the U.S. were (say) invaded by China, that namby-pamby Tom Perrillo or the spineless …
7 West has wrapped up.
After three and a half years and 400 posts, Kris Amundson and Bob Brink are wrapping up their blog, 7 West. Del. Amundson has retired from the legislature, leaving Del. Brink like one half of a horse costume (I’m not saying which half), so he intends to start blogging on his own website before long. …
5CD Republicans have started their debate debate.
Feda Morton is angry because Sen. Robert Hurt has declined to participate in a pair of proposed candidate forums, and the story behind why he declined turns out to be revealing. Both are among the seven Republicans looking for the nomination to run against Rep. Tom Perriello. The race is basically Hurt vs. everybody else. …
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A General Assembly pre-filed tag cloud.
A tag cloud of the 139 bills prefiled for the 2010 General Assembly session thus far: automobile bond bristol budget business calendar car charter children college commendation commerce committee concealed congress constitution constitutional amendment court crime custody death dillon rule disability divorce duffield education election elections electricity employment energy finance fire firearm governor gun handgn …
The RPV’s revisionist time-machine.
There’s this weird meme among Republicans that I haven’t been able to figure out the origin of. It’s become an item of faith that the bailout of the banking and auto industries was a) a hostile takeover of private industry and b) the work of President Obama. Obviously, neither of these things are true. Both …
Never mind the Republican whinging about the cost of a primary.
There’s some odd complaining going on about Fifth District Republicans’ decision to hold a primary, I see in Brian McNeill’s article in today’s Daily Progress. The logic is that primaries are expensive, with the bill footed by local registrars’ offices, and they really can’t afford it right now. With Republicans trying to claim the mantle …
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Another 3rd party congressional candidate.
Somehow I missed the recent news that Jeff Clark of Danville will be running against Rep. Tom Perriello in the general election. Like the high-larious Bradley Rees, Clark is too far right even for Fifth District Republicans, which is saying something, and isn’t bothering to try to get the nomination. As with Rees, I intend …
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