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Will it be the worst thing for the country if today’s elections give Republicans one or both houses of Congress? Yes and no. You might be surprised at my reasoning on the yes. It’s not a partisan point of view that has me thinking that way. It’s more – can we just make our damned…
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I was a Reagan Democrat and Republican activist from ’80-’06. My views have changed as this new-age, anti-Reagan Republican Party has devolved away from the Constitution into a party of extreme hatred and racial, religious and ethnic bigotry, claiming they’re the only “true” patriots and “real” Americans: everyone else is somehow un-American and “liberal” (as…
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The phone rang. No, it was not three in the morning. It was a far more civilized hour. And a more civilized time. It was 1992. However, as far as I was concerned it was a political wake-up call. “Dave, this is Vivian, how would like to be a Bill Clinton delegate at the Democratic…
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AFP editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to discuss Virginia news and politics. The segment begins with a look ahead to next week’s congressional elections. Will Republicans make the big gains that the analysts have been projecting for months? What will it all mean once the dust settles? The next topic is…
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Before Wall Street drove our economy off a cliff, bullish Citigroup strategists dubbed the United States a “plutonomy.” They said, “There are rich consumers, few in number, but disproportionate in the gigantic slice of income and consumption they take. There are the rest, the ‘non-rich,’ the multitudinous many, but only accounting for surprisingly small bites…
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It doesn’t bother me at all that Bob Goodlatte reneged on his term-limits pledge. I’ll concede that perhaps it should. (You know, broken promises …) But it doesn’t. I file it away in the Politicians Saying Anything To Get Elected folder. Like how Goodlatte will tell you up and down how he’s aghast at big…
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We’re nearing the final week of the 2010 midterm elections, and one of the marquee races on the national stage next Tuesday night is right here in our backyard. Democrat Tom Perriello is trailing in the polls to Republican challenger Robert Hurt, a state senator from Southside who has run in many ways the perfect…
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AFP editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to talk Virginia news and politics. The segment begins with Chris providing an update on the latest news in congressional races in the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth. Republicans appear poised to hold onto the Sixth District seat and take back the seat in the Fifth…
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I wanted to let you know about the recent progress of legislation I have introduced that will make government work better and save taxpayer money. The Government Performance and Results Modernization Act of 2010, which I’m proud to say is co-sponsored by two Republicans and two Democrats, requires each federal agency to set clear performance…
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State senators George Barker and Linda “Toddy” Puller are working to educate voters about the three state constitutional amendments on the ballot in the Nov. 2 general elections. An amendment sponsored by Barker, D-Alexandria, gives counties and cities complete flexibility regarding property tax relief for elderly or disabled persons. “I have found that many older…
