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President Obama has proposed allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire above $400,000 as part of negotiations to avoid the fiscal cliff. U.S. Sen.-elect Tim Kaine had suggested during his campaign allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire on income above $500,000 per year, a practical compromise between the position of Senate Democrats and President Obama and the position of House Republicans.
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Virginia’s 13 electors met Monday in the House Chamber in the State Capitol to vote for president and vice president of the United States of America for the next ensuing term.
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Both Terry McAuliffe and Ken Cuccinelli have what they want … sorta, kinda. McAuliffe, the presumptive Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee, and Cuccinelli, the presumptive Republican nominee, have clear paths at the 2013 general election. The possibility that Bill Bolling, the sitting Republican lieutenant governor, will enter the race as an independent is still out there, but not likely.
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It’s a month past Election Day 2012, and Barack Obama is still more than a month away from beginning his second term. Keep that in mind as you consider the latest from Public Policy Polling, which is a very, very, very early look ahead to the 2016 presidential race.
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On Wednesday at his annual transportation conference, Gov. Bob McDonnell discussed the bipartisan progress being made in addressing Virginia’s transportation challenges.
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The number of voters identifying themselves as Democrats has bumped up five points since the November election, and the number ID’g as Republicans has fallen by a similar amount.
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What is it about Republicans that they can’t stand a good political fight? Are they all of the established country club wing of the party who prefer the non-contact sports of golf and tennis to the rough and tumble of a good partisan fight? Are they all Charlie Brown’s up against a Lucy who keeps saying that she will not pull away the football?
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“Right now I’m not prepared to make any endorsement in the campaign for governor. Frankly I don’t plan on making any endorsements in the statewide campaigns.” With those words, Bill Bolling became a man without a country, politically speaking.
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Two-term Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling is set to announce that he will not seek the 2013 Republican Party gubernatorial nomination. Time to examine the impacts of that anticipated move on the Virginia political scene.
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It’s time to examine the impacts on various Virginia political players from the news this week that U.S. Sen. Mark Warner will not mount a campaign to run for governor in 2013.
