No wonder BPOL is such a great idea for businesses in Stafford County according to George Schwartz, Bob Woodson, Joe Brito and Harry Crisp!  But don’t forget the two others who advocated strongly for taxes to be raised during a recession: former supervisor/current planning commissioner Pete Fields and Cecilia Kirkman.

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It looks like it just got a whole lot tougher for the limousine liberals to claim that they are the party that holds exclusivity on racial diversity. It certainly is no longer possible to waive their hypocritical fingers at us (the party of Lincoln) claiming we are racists. 

If we could only get Virginia state chairman Jeff Frederick to stop making stupid comments in the news like this one in The Washington Post, “Chairman Steele is an among the most articulate spokesman our party has to offer,” we’d certainly be able to fend off accusations and insinuations of racism a lot easier.

from Yahoo News:

WASHINGTON – The Republican Party chose the first black national chairman in its history Friday, just shy of three months after the nation elected a Democrat as the first African-American president. The choice marked no less than “the dawn of a new party,” declared the new GOP chairman, former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. Republicans chose Steele over four other candidates, including former President George W. Bush’s hand-picked GOP chief, who bowed out declaring, “Obviously the winds of change are blowing.”

Steele takes the helm of a beleaguered Republican Party that is trying to recover after crushing defeats in November’s national elections that gave Democrats control of Congress put Barack Obama in the White House.

GOP delegates erupted in cheers and applause when his victory was announced, but it took six ballots to get there. He’ll serve a two-year term.

Steele, an attorney, is a conservative, but he was considered the most moderate of the five candidates running.

He was also considered an outsider because he’s not a member of the Republican National Committee. But the 168-member RNC clearly signaled it wanted a change after eight years of Bush largely dictating its every move as the party’s standard-bearer.

Steele became the first black candidate elected to statewide office in Maryland in 2002, and he made an unsuccessful Senate run in 2006. The former chairman of the Maryland Republican Partycurrently serves as chairman of GOPAC, an organization that recruits and trains Republican political candidates, and in that role he has been a frequent presence on the talk show circuit.

He vowed to expand the reach of the party by competing for every group, everywhere.

“We’re going to say to friend and foe alike: ‘We want you to be a part of us, we want you to with be with us.’ And for those who wish to obstruct, get ready to get knocked over,” Steele said.

“There is not one inch of ground that we’re going to cede to anybody,” he added.

“This is the dawn of a new party moving in a new direction with strength and conviction.”

His job is to spark a revival for the GOP as it takes on an empowered Democratic Party under the country’s first black president in the next midterm elections and beyond.

He replaces Mike Duncan, who abandoned his re-election bid in the face of dwindling support midway through Friday’s voting.

Two others who trailed farther back in the voting eventually followed suit, former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell and Michigan GOP chairman Saul Anuzis.

In the sixth and final round of voting, Steele went head-to-head with his only remaining opponent, South Carolina GOP chief Katon Dawson. Steele clinched the election with 91 votes; a majority of 85 committee members was needed.

Just eight years after Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress, the GOP finds itself out of power, without a standard-bearer and trying to figure out how to rebound while its foe seems to grow ever stronger.

The Democratic Party boasts a broadened coalition of voters — including Hispanics and young people — who swung behind Obama’s call for change. At the same time, the slice of voters who call themselves Republican has narrowed. The GOP also has watched as Democrats have dominated both coasts while making inroads into the West and South, leaving Republicans with a shrunken base.

Despite the run of GOP losses, Duncan had argued that he should be re-elected because of his experience; his five challengers called for change and said they represented it.

As he left the race, Duncan thanked Bush and said of his two-year tenure: “It truly has been the highlight of my life.”

Another candidate, former Tennessee GOP Chairman Chip Saltsman, withdrew from the race on the eve of voting and with no explanation, saying only in a letter to RNC members, “I have decided to withdraw my candidacy.”

Saltsman, who ran former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s failed presidential campaign last year, saw his bid falter in December after he drew controversy for mailing to committee members a CD that included a song titled “Barack the Magic Negro” by conservative comedian Paul Shanklin and sung to the music of “Puff, the Magic Dragon.”

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Republican Del. Mark Cole has presented a budget amendment to help Stafford businesses weather the recession — eliminate the BPOL tax for a year. Kudos!

Under his proposal, businesses wouldn’t have to pay the business, professional and occupational license tax between July 1, 2009, and June 30, 2010.

Not all Stafford elected officials are so quick to save you money- Supervisors Brito, Schwartz, Woodson and Crisp like the idea- no- they LOVE the idea of small businesses paying a tax that was originally made a tool in the tax box of Virginia back in 1812!!

Mark Dudenhefer, Cord Sterling and Paul Milde championed your rights to a limited government and reasonable low taxes, but they are outnumbered by one on the board by the four above listed crooks.

It was a TEMPORARY tax to fund the War of 1812 and was never supposed to be continued once the debt was paid.  Woodson and Brito can’t even calculate how the tax would be applied so I wouldn’t expect them to know the history of it. Lest we forget:

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Here’s a little dose of reality. The incoming administration, which was advised before the election by the discredited former leaders of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, is naming a Treasury team composed of precisely those individuals who are largely responsible for the economic crisis. In this and many other ways, Mr. Obama has pulled a massive deceit on the American people. He has blamed, and continues to blame, President Bush for the misguided actions of President Clinton which triggered the subprime crisis.

More generally, by using a focused inner anger, Alinsky tactics, massive vote fraud, yard sign theft, and other unethical practices, accompanied by vague Nazi-style rhetoric, a nobody from nowhere, who has little time for God and His ways and who has yet to produce a genuine birth certificate, has managed to become elected as President of the United States. “A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but in his heart he harbors deceit.” (Proverbs 26:24) We would do well to remember that scripture. And this one too: “Not a word from their mouth can be trusted; their heart is filled with destruction. Their throat is an open grave; with their tongue they speak deceit.” (Psalm 5:9)

This leaves us with a dilemma. What do we do? Of course, we should pray that God will lead Mr. Obama into paths of integrity, honesty and righteousness. And at the same time we must pray for our nation, as we are careful to daily monitor our liberties and our culture for signs of erosion, and react accordingly.

We are likely to see attacks on talk radio, the Internet (including this web site), home schooling and other lifelines to sanity. After all, the goal of the socialists is to discourage contrary thinking and communication, while mouthing whatever is inspired by Orwellian doublethink. In 1984, George Orwell defined Doublethink as “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient.”

If this sounds vaguely familiar, you’ll probably recall the last Democrat president, who promised “the most ethical administration in history” when he took office. Today, that remark is regarded with wry humor when considered as a preface to the Clinton years, an administration which featured more ethical violations than any other in American history.

The portents are troubling. But let us not compromise our beliefs. The America we have known is about to be attacked by an insidious fifth column. What can we do? Immediately, we can guard our own households. We can ensure our own lives are as free as possible from sin. Then, we can cry out to God, as did King David: “Vindicate me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; rescue me from deceitful and wicked men.” (Psalm 43:1) And our prayers shall be answered.

More at Page One Daily and Time for Reality

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We’ve had so many party chairmen in the past 5-7 years, I’ve literally lost count.  Each one had something good to offer, each one made some inroads. Each one left a legacy in their short tenure.

But progressively we’ve slid from Red to Blue in short order. Are we united? Are we a conservative party? Are we a right-of-center party? Are we outdated and out of touch? Are we growing? Are we winning? Are we content with the program we have as a state party?  One thing was for sure a year ago, we needed some kind of shot in the arm and some kind of direction to follow. Leadership was and will always be the cornerstone to our identity.  Reagan has been dead for a while, and we still often point to his leadership, legacy and ideals as our best ones. If we can’t do better than that, can we at least ‘match’ it again?  Our record isn’t showing that we can, my fellow Republicans!  It’s simply a fact that we aren’t.

Jeff Frederick was elected to become RPV chair with a message of change louder than Obama’s delusions of ever actually doing it.  But Still, JFred made those many promises and painted a very rosy picture, and he did them to my face and the faces of my fellow conservatives. We reached out to him in person, via emails, and via blogs like on Leslie Carbone’s blog for example way back in June to implement the things he promised. No more, no less, just keep your promises and deliver as much as you say you can.

We’re still waiting for our change in Virginia… well, admittedly we got change technically… just not what we expected {we’re now a BLUE STATE!!} I’m not sure that we pin that on him, our party had that one coming… but only insiders were chatting about Frederick’s handling of RPV, until now …

JFred recently went on a friendly conservative blog, Bearing Drift, and said in a long statement essentially “I don’t read blogs often.”

JFred promised raising huge sums of money for the party,

JFred promised a world-class RPV website which presumably would include a ‘new media’ aspect,

JFred promised in writing he’d step down/ not run again (depending on who he talked to) as VA Delegate if he was elected chairman of RPV,

JFred promised he’d lead us to victory and pick up seats (albeit hard for any one person to do)

… promises kept?

I couldn’t get RPV to help promote a truly grassroots, regionally cooperative, 1,000-attendee Palin debate watching party in any way, but JFred showed up unannounced and demanded microphone time in place of John Warner and 5 other speakers! When his request was denied simply due to zero RSVP and 6 speakers to cram inside 55 minutes, he simply resorted to glad handing the VIP row while others spoke instead.

I can’t get RPV to remove me from their fund raising mailing list or robo calls.

No one will tell me how much we’ve raised at RPV for the upcoming 2009 war chest when campaign funds are pouring into seemingly everyone’s inbox but ours.

No one will tell me if the rumors are true that Amy Frederick is on the RPV payroll.

No one knows how much this new website is costing or who’s making it, or when it will be done.

No one will tell me if the rumors are true that this mysterious web site costs $50,000+. Can I have that contract please? I make web sites!!

No one will tell me if it’s true whether Jeff Frederick receives directly or indirectly any profit/fees from online donations to RPV for processing. This seems like an easy question to answer!

• Act Blue survives on fractions of a percent for the Democrats and rakes in millions for their folks.
• Red Storm PAC  charges NADA for donations for conservative candidates in Virginia.

I voted for Jeff Frederick for chairman, and I don’t mind saying that I’m coming down with a case of buyers’ remorse.

Can he change my mind back?  YES HE CAN. Run an open RPV and squash all rumors of fleecing the organization with a transparent letter addressing these and any other rumblings that blogs and dinner parties are referencing when the name RPV and talk of money comes up.

Maybe the Obama camp folks can give me some answers– they have leaders who DO read blogs and keep up with the media- both traditional and new media. Even if they flat out lie, at least they address the issues!

New grassroots leadership?  I haven’t seen it. Fortunately for me, I won’t have to apologize for posting this since he doesn’t read blogs that often. I’ll let the Democrat blogs have some fun with it instead. They understand new media better than GOP leadership I think. We also wouldn’t have to be finding stuff like THIS about our own party chairman out there:

Someone spent a lot of time working on this video instead of working to get our GOP folks elected next year. That’s a waste of good energy, but does reflect a void in leadership traits that leave room to poke fun at with stuff like this. Funny. As. Hell. was my first reaction, then I was inspired to contemplate my own personal beefs with Jeff as of the past few months.

The good news is that when we lose ALL our Republican held seats in the whole state, we’ll be forced to adapt to this new way of thinking (new media marketing, attracting young voters, having an ‘updated’ platform that isn’t older than my birthmark) since we’ll have no other means by which to communicate then. The Dems will have bled us dry with new taxes, will own the Internet and blogosphere, and we won’t have any cash left to donate to the political party for ads we always run and never work.  Perhaps then we will only dabble with the expensive TV, radio, full page newspaper ads and slick glossy direct mail– and go to people’s houses instead, and do some REAL grassroots activism instead of glad handing people whom we think can advance US instead of the cause.

I had a McCain sign in my as soon as they were available- Obama folks knocked on my door twice!

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It’s ironic that Barack Obama would champion Planned Parenthood’s fundraising effort while on the campaign stump. He even went as far as to promise that the first bill he intends to sign into law would be the Freedom of Choice Act, a law that would remove any and all state control over anything related to abortion reductions. This includes reversing and outlawing any: parental notification, mandatory ultrasounds, waiting periods, partial and late-term abortion bans and restrictions or limits on government funding for abortion marketing.

In essence, if FOCA or The Prevention First Act passes, American babies will die with no chance of a pause or second reflection on the grave decision by anyone. Abortion mills will prosper and Planned Parenthood specifically will make BILLIONS of dollars in profits— largely from our tax money! Abortion will be freely marketed as a casual product that’s easy to get and since it’s not only “legal”, it’s actually illegal to do anything against it, even through state legislation!

If Barack Obama were conceived after Roe v. Wade in 1973, a mere multi-racial zygote of a poor woman (not a baby by Planned Parenthood standards, and certainly not ethnically pure enough to warrant birth and citizenship in Sanger’s America), he would have a very high chance of having been aborted by the same company he wants us to fund and tolerate killing one of our most unprotected and vulnerable countrymen every 26 seconds.

Besides reading this blog, will you lift a finger to call your elected official to do something about it?

Visit www.stopp.org/agenda to learn more about FOCA, The Prevention First Act and Planned Parenthood’s illegal and inhumane agenda.

Posted in Abortion, American Life League, Barack Obama, democrats, federal, finance, laws, medicaid, medical, money, Morality, policy, politics, Religion, Socialism, U.S. Constitution, Wasteful Spending