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Update: Virginia Right! endorses Buddy Fowler. I have personally known Buddy Fowler for several years and have had many chats with him. (Buddy and I were both Magisterial District Chairmen in Hanover.) He is not only a good man, he is a strong Conservative and will be a reliable successor to John Cox (whom I [...]

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After President Obama spent weeks campaigning against the sequester and demanding that Republicans agree to tax hikes to prevent it, the sequester has gone ahead and many observers are declaring it a setback for the White House spin machine.   Roll Call writes today, “It wasn’t supposed to be like this for the White House [...]

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Check out this blog entry from Senator Chap Petersen – Sandy’s favorite Democrat!  Petersen voted NO on the transportation/Medicaid bill!  Here’s his remarks: Ladies & Gentlemen of the Senate: I speak today as someone who grew up in the heart of Fairfax.  As a little boy I looked out my window and watched the construction [...]

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Following the State of the Union address by Barack Obama tonight, US Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) will deliver the Republican response. Below are excerpts from the speech he is set to deliver: “This opportunity – to make it to the middle class or beyond no matter where you start out in life – it isn’t bestowed on us [...]

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We have been predicting for some time that House and Senate Republicans were going to cave in to higher taxes. Every one of these Republicans has said many, many times “you don’t raise taxes on anyone in a recession – period!” So Senate Republicans would have us believe that they were completely at the mercy [...]

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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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Democrats have always been strangers to the truth and huge fans of revisionist history. And nothing states that more clearly than the intellectually deficient calls for a return to the “Clinton Tax Rates” to bring prosperity back to the country. And of course, the de facto leader of the intellectually deficient is Barack Obama who used this false [...]

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In an interview with The Wall Street Journal’s Stephen Moore at the end of last week, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell reiterated that in order to get an agreement to avoid the fiscal cliff, there needs to be some leadership from President Obama. “The missing person, the guy who was AWOL in 2011, is still the president. I think a good starting [...]

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“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” “A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always [...]

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Last week, The Washington Post reported, “President Obama is prepared to veto legislation to block year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, collectively known as the ‘fiscal cliff,’ unless Republicans bow to his demand to raise tax rates for the wealthy, administration officials said. Freed from the political and economic constraints that have tied his hands in the past, [...]

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In an editorial today, The Wall Street Journal editors takes a top Senate Democrat to task for a speech staking out a position that would sink tax reform efforts. They write, “The polls say voters want more bipartisanship, and one possibility in 2013 is tax reform that trades lower rates for fewer loopholes. Well, so much for that. [...]

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LIE #1: OBAMA SAYS HIS PLAN REDUCES THE DEFICIT BY $4 TRILLION THE CLAIM: Obama: “I’ve Proposed A Specific $4 Trillion Deficit Reduction Plan.”OBAMA: “I’ve proposed a specific $4 trillion deficit reduction plan. … The way we do it is $2.50 for every cut, we ask for $1 in additional revenue.” (President Barack Obama, Presidential Debate, [...]

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The New York Times reports today that Moody’s “warned that it would downgrade the government’s debt if no solution [to the fiscal cliff] was found by year’s end. . . . The Moody’s warning comes a year after its rival, Standard & Poor’s, downgraded the United States’ credit worthiness after the protracted stalemate over raising the [...]

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I was amazed by this article in the progressive Mother Jones magazine about VP nominee Paul Ryan.  Here’s the conclusion: The problem here is simple: there is no silver bullet liberal response to Ryan’s Medicare charges. This is because, rhetorical excesses aside, his charges are basically correct. Why would Mother Jones concede the most contentious [...]

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The New York Times reports today, “A rising number of manufacturers are canceling new investments and putting off new hires because they fear paralysis in Washington will force hundreds of billions in tax increases and budget cuts in January, undermining economic growth in the coming months. Executives at companies making everything from electrical components and power systems to [...]

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McConnell: ‘They’re Not Even Pretending To Care About The Economy’   SEN. MITCH McCONNELL: “They’re not even pretending to care about the economy. They’ve sort of given up on the argument that this is about the economy. We know that because two years ago the Democrats agreed that this tax increase, they’re now fighting to increase — [...]

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Dems’ Radical Cliff Plan Draws Gasps Fed Chairman & Jobs Groups Say Going Over Fiscal Cliff Would ‘Spawn A Dangerous Crisis,’ Warn A ‘Recession Would Occur’   Fed Chairman Warns On Consequences Of Fiscal Cliff   BEN BERNANKE, Federal Reserve Chairman: “…fiscal decisions should take into account the fragility of the recovery. That recovery could be endangered by [...]

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Alexandria, Va. - Taxpayers Protection Alliance president David Williams today released the below statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act. “Obamacare today became the largest tax increase in American history. The health care law has nearly doubled in cost from $940 billion to $1.76  trillion and taxpayers deserve nothing less than full repeal [...]

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I got this email from Governor Bobby Jindal (along with thousands of others of course!) but I wondered:  Maybe the GOP nominee should consider this governor as Vice President: Friends – It is time to give President Obama credit for keeping a commitment. This is, for this President, a pretty remarkable achievement.  I am not [...]

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