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Gov. Bob McDonnell has signaled his support for an adjustment to the state gas tax to provide more revenue for transportation improvements. Grover Norquist, the man behind the no-tax pledge, has a message for McDonnell and other Republicans who might be thinking of moving with the GOP governor in favor of higher gas taxes.
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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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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.
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Growing Republican defections from Grover Norquist’s extreme pledge never to raise taxes under any circumstances means it’s now possible to reach a bipartisan deal to raise revenues from the wealthy to prevent major cuts to education, Medicare and other services, and to reduce the deficit.
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U.S. Sen. Mark Warner ended months of speculation about a possible run for governor in 2013, releasing a statement on Tuesday to announce that he will not be a candidate for the job that he held from 2002-2006.
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I totally get the bent toward secession that we’re seeing from the sore-loser set that has cropped up in the aftermath of the 2012 presidential election.
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Many in the Republican base have complained that the erstwhile Massachusetts moderate, Mitt Romney, is not a fitting standard bearer for today’s Republican Party. But there’s a fundamental way that Romney is a perfect reflection of his party: Neither is honest with the American people.
