Virginia Right!

Every week on Monday morning , the Council and invited guests weigh in at the Watcher’s Forum, short takes on a major issue of the day. This week’s question:Can the Republican Party come back, or will a new party emerge? The Glittering Eye:Of course the Republican Party can come back. Right now its major problems [...]

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Another Virginia Congressman has turned his back on the Conservatives who put him into office. Congressman Scott Rigell is now the latest to justify expanding government through tax increases. And he has even adopted the Progressive’s “code word” for tax hikes calling them “revenue enhancements” to blur the truth. Rigell’s approach is to take away deductions [...]

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Progressives had hoped that a bitterly contested primary on the Republican side pitting TEA Party activists against Republicans would serve to drive a wedge between the groups and open the doors for more of the Progressive brand of Socialist Neo-Marxist One World Governance for which they stand. Sorry Harry, Nancy and Barack – not to [...]

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Each state has the right to select three representatives to the Republican National Committee (Yes, the one that condemned and exposed Agenda 21!) and one must be a male and one must be female.  The female one is the National Committeewoman.  (I think the party chair also sits on the RNC.) I am pleased to [...]

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Dear Virginians: It is a shame when after years of pro-life steadfastness, Governor McDonnell’s commitment gets severely blurred by the sweet wine of Vice Presidential ambition.  Intoxicating and crippling, his drunken desire to play fiddle with Massachusetts Moderation dulls his senses and infuriates his supporters.  Thank goodness for sober Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli who fearlessly [...]

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Finally. Finally. Finally. Speaker John Boehner gave a speech a few minutes ago and called out the Democrats and the President for being absent in this debate. We have been holding his feet to the fire, screaming from the mountain top for Boehner to go after the failed leadership of President Obama and Harry Reid. [...]

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You really don’t need to be related to Nostradamus to see what is about to happen. The debt ceiling bill proposed by Speaker John Boehner that the Republicans are going to pass today will boost Obama’s sagging poll numbers and give the president a much needed boost in his re-election efforts. And it will once [...]

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The Congressional Budget Office has had a look at the Boehner Plan, and guess what? What we have been saying about Speaker Boehner all along is true! Remember the Continuing Resolution fight a few months back where Boehner and the Republican Leadership promised $100 Billion in cuts, and settled for a plan that cut $40 [...]

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Is Vegas taking bets on what time the Republicans will cave on the debt deal? If not, they should. Everyting is lining up for a massive cave in by the Republican leadership and the Conservative outcry for Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s head on a platter (figuratively, of course) is mounting. Of [...]

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When Democrats lie, they tend to be whoppers. The headlines are overflowing with Democrats doing despicable things and trying to blame Republicans. No, Democrats. We all know you were not “hacked”. You are simply being dishonest… again! It is the ‘Culture of Deception’ and is the new reality for the Hanover, Virginia Democratic Committee. While [...]

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The Path to Prosperity It is tempting to begin with an old cliche’ opening line like “It was the best of budgets, it was the worst of budgets,” but looking at the graphs to the left (click for a larger view), that would be an understatement. House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor and [...]

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The Constitution was read out loud in the well of the House of Representatives today and the liberals were flummoxed!  (Thanks to Gary Bauer’s End of Day report of 1/6/11) The New York Times editorialized unfavorably: In any case, it is a presumptuous and self-righteous act, suggesting that they alone understand the true meaning of [...]

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Thanks to Rep. Goodlatte’s (VA-06) idea with some help from our VA A.G. Cuccinelli (according to his press release), Republican are starting to walk the talk.   Is this a result of the “shellacking”?  Could be.  The grass root movement loud Nov 2 message was just as much for Republican as it was to Pres. [...]

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`Unless people like me show the American people that we’re willing to follow through on small or even symbolic things, we risk losing them on our broader efforts to cut spending and rein in government. That’s why today I am announcing that I will join the Republican Leadership in the House in support of a [...]

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The newly elected Republican House Majority will not take over until January, but already we are getting a glimpse of what changes they have in mind. So far I like what I am seeing and it appears the republicans are going to be the ones to keep President Obama’s campaign promise of transparency. Today, Rep. [...]

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Tea Party-backed Senate candidate surging in Colorado Washington Times — In Colorado’s Republican Primary for U.S. Senator, District Attorney Ken Buck of Weld County, a favorite of the Tea Party movement, has jumped to a double digit lead over former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton. Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli explained how Buck has overcome the better-funded [...]

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The Liberal Media spends so much time and effort attempting to marginalize the Patriotic efforts of those of us who have had enough of the monster we have been feeding called Big Government that they can’t see the forest for the trees. The “In the Tank” Media, or “Tankers” as they are called, truly have no idea who members of the Tea Party really are. Oh, they have high hopes that the Tea Party will become a third party and siphon votes away from Republicans. But those that believe that truly do not understand the movement at all.

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