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All appears lost for the Democrats on health-care reform. Republicans have boxed us into a corner, holding electoral gloom and doom as the surefire bet should Congress come to an agreement on any kind of meaningful reform. News Flash: They’re going to politic the hell out of health care next year whether Congress passes a…
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It started for me when I got the e-mail from the Erik Curren House campaign last week pushing back a self-imposed campaign-fundraising deadline. The questions. The Curren camp had wanted to raise $20,000 following the announcement that Republican incumbent Chris Saxman was dropping out of the race to show viability and support at the home…
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A funny thing about polls. One that has Bob McDonnell up big over Creigh Deeds in this year’s governor’s race had its respondents telling them Virginia went to John McCain 52 percent to 43 percent last November. And then the other one had its respondents splitting 52-41 for McCain.
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Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 – Press Briefing with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs – Remarks by President Obama and Kuwait Amir Sheikh Sabah before Oval Office meeting – Remarks by President Obama at George Mason University on the Post-9/11 GI Bill – Statement by the press secretary on the visit of President Mubarak of Egypt to the…
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People in Wise County prefer to be on welfare, to hear the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia tell it. Mullins made a comment to that effect last month, according to a report in The Recorder, a weekly newspaper based in Highland County, in summing up a story about a Wise County insurance company…
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The House of Representatives passed legislation Friday pumping $2 billion into the popular Cash for Clunkers program over the objections of some House Republicans who unfortunateliy used the opportunity to hit Democrats on the big issue of the summer – health-care reform.
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We knew it would be Dickie Bell. I’m a little surprised that it was that obvious to the Republicans, I guess. “We have some differences. We have some mending to do. We’re not unlike any other political faction. We need to get to work on those things and show the people of the 20th District…
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The American people are understandably queasy.” – Barack Hussein Obama, July 22, 2009. What is making the American people queasy is a Congress that does not pay attention to those who hired them in the first place. What is making the American people queasy is a Congress that does not do the job for which…
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The 20th District Republican Party nomination is Dickie Bell’s to lose, just as it appeared this time last week in the hours after Chris Saxman’s stunning announcement that he was dropping out of the race. Bell is an ideal candidate in more ways than one. The 62-year-old moderate is in his fourth term on Staunton…
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“Do Augusta County Democrats have a death wish?” That was what greeted me to the desk this morning, an e-mail note from a friend and Democratic Party strategist with a link to a story in today’s News Leader discussing 20th District House candidate Erik Curren’s religious beliefs and criticisms from fellow Democrat Tracy Pyles to…
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