Gee, You Think Tom Davis Might Be a Little Bitter?

Tom Davis, in an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch:
“A convention restricts you to talk to 5,000 party activists where they ask you, ‘OK, now if you’re raped by an in-law and the mother’s life was in danger, you would allow an abortion? Oh, well, you’re not good enough for me.’ That’s what it comes down [...]

Bob Marshall Just Doesn’t Get It

VA Blogger over at Too Conservative has a really good post up that just devastates Bob Marshall’s position on trade. But he leaves out one other important point. Marshall’s blathering about how Value Added Taxes hurt American exporters is simply incoherent.
A VAT tax is essentially a tax on the value added to a product at [...]

Bowerbank Getting Better

So, I spoke way too soon on Jon Bowerbank’s issues page and campaign website in general. His issues page is already significantly longer and his section on energy is really quite good. His bio page is significantly improved as well, mentioning his work on the Russell County Board of Supervisors and adding the interesting fact [...]

Bowerbank is In

Jon Bowerbank has made it official. As I mentioned last week, he’s running for the Democratic Lieutenant Governor nomination to take on Bill Bolling next November.
Bowerbank has a website up, but it definitely isn’t ready for prime time yet, which seems odd for a guy who has locked up so much of the top Virginia [...]

Virginia 2009

I know 2008 isn’t even half way over yet, but already the posturing for the 2009 Virginia General Election is heating up.
Governor
The GOP side of the equation is easy. Attorney General Bob McDonnell will be running. Lieutenant Governor Bill Bolling had considered a run, but announced in March he was going to seek reelection instead. [...]

Traffic as a Voting Issue

You can really tell that Ezra Klein doesn’t live in Virginia. Here, traffic has been a voting issue for at least a decade now.
How long till traffic becomes a voting issue? Americans spend more time in it every year. They get heart attacks from it. And now, with gas prices well above $100 — and [...]

Virgil Goode Just Can’t Stop

Virgil Goode really is having a tough time recently. The other day he went on a bizarre rant against Muslims. Now, I see that he’s signed on to a bill that would outlaw in vitro fertilization.
H.R. 4157, which Representative Broun refers to as the Sanctity of Human Life Act, might more accurately be entitled the [...]

Virginia’s Transportation Problem

Virginia has a transportation problem. Traffic is badly clogged in both Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads and the primary funding mechanism in Virginia’s 2007 Transportation Bill was largely struck down by the Virginia Supreme Court in March. That was after the other funding mechanism in the bill, the abusive driver fees, had to be repealed [...]

Virginia Republicans in Congress Make Fools of Themselves

Congressmen Eric Cantor and Virgil Goode really made fools of themselves today.
Goode came first. In the debate over Iraq today, Goode went on a bizarre rant against Muslims.
When the commentary begins in the Middle East, in no way do I want to comfort and encourage the radical Muslims who want to destroy our country and [...]

Look at that, people are price sensitive

A couple of days ago I noted that DC Metro ridership is way up in this era of high gas prices. Today, in the New York Times, I see that it’s not just DC, but the entire country that’s seeing a mass transit boom. In the New York region ridership is up between 5 and [...]