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Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich thinks everything wrong with the $790 billion federal stimulus package before Congress can be boiled down to one thing: a mouse.
Specifically, a mouse that lives in the San Francisco Bay area. The last version of the stimulus package Gingrich saw contained […]

There’s a very good reason Terry McAuliffe decided to run for Governor of Virginia only after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination for President. One of the worst kept secrets in D.C. was that McAuliffe would have been Secretary of Commerce in a Hillary Clinton administration.
Now you have got to give it to Hillary on […]

Why were Stafford Democrats handing this out Thursday night? Go to Blue Commonwealth and find out.

According to the Northern Neck News, GOP 99th District Chair Allen Webb has no immediate plans to challenge Del. Albert Pollard this year, despite rumors to the contrary. Webb, like everyone else, has been waiting for Lee Ann Washington to opt for a rematch, following her defeat at the hands of Pollard in the 2008 special election. If […]

Eric Cantor, who believes that profanity should be punishable by a fine of $500,000, set out an obscenity-laced video to members of the press in response to a new ad campaign from AFSCME.
The YouTube spoof portrays union members as characters out of a Martin Scorsese film. This video’s been around for a long time, it’s good for […]

Glenn Thrush:
Just ran into new RNC Chairman Michael Steele who watched President Obama’s town hall in Indiana and wasn’t impressed.
The Obama-backed stimulus, he said, “is just a wish list from a lot of people who have been on the sidelines for years.. to get a little bling, bling.”

Speaker Howell and Gov. Kaine’s recent restaurant smoking-ban compromise once again makes one wonder if a certain member of the House of Delegates is worried about his re-election chances this November. Mere weeks after Obama defeated McCain in Bill Howell’s 28th district it was announced that the House would finally be recording sub-committee votes, which Democrats have been […]

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Del. Bobby Orrock recently introduced HB 2642. Here’s the key paragraph:
… (iii) makes it a Class 1 misdemeanor to pay or receive compensation on a fee per signature or on a basis related to the number of signatures obtained for circulating election-related petitions or completing and submitting voter registration applications;…
I’m kind of torn. I don’t like […]