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Senate Republicans continue to block the appointment of budget conferees to work on negotiations with the House, and Democrats – including Virginia Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine – are trying to push through the logjam.
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Most voters agree that big corporations and the wealthy should start paying their fair share in taxes. But of course big corporations and the wealthy don’t want to do that. They want to pay less, and they are used to getting their way. So what do you do?
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This, in a nutshell, is The Terry McAuliffe Problem – Democratic voters in Virginia just don’t care. They like Barack Obama. They really like Tim Kaine. They love Mark Warner. Terry McAuliffe … eh.
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In our highly partisan environment there seems to be very few issues that Republicans, Independents and Democrats agree on. This partisanship is easily seen in Congress but is also alive with voters across the country. Small business owners are often no different than their customers in demonstrating divergent opinions on issues depending on their political preferences.
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After I graduated college from Washington and Lee University, I moved to Brooklyn to take a job with Lord and Taylor as an assistant buyer in…wait for it… women’s moderate blouses.
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To build or not to build? That seems to be the lingering question in the White House when it comes to the Keystone XL pipeline. It’s been more than four years since the application for the pipeline’s permit was originally submitted, yet construction remains blocked.
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Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe hand delivered 35,746 signatures to the Virginia State Board of Elections to secure his place on the ballot. Former Republican Delegates Vince Callahan, Katherine Waddell, businessman Major Reynolds, and supporters from across Virginia joined McAuliffe to deliver the petitions.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell today completed his review of the major transportation funding compromise passed by the General Assembly in late February, and in the process proposed amendments to the compromise reducing the titling tax increase and also reducing the controversial fee on alternative vehicles by 36 percent.
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Democrats were sure they had a winning hand heading into the 2009 governor’s race. Creigh Deeds is a Western Virginia moderate with a long record in the mainstream of Virginia politics. Bob McDonnell, his opponent that fall, has a similar long record in Virginia politics, but he had one other thing that could serve to weigh him down.
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Business groups with an axe to grind against the Obama administration, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business, like to push the idea that “uncertainty” over government actions is the monkey on the economy’s back.
