Should Portsmouth get a new Senator?

Bearing Drift is leading an effort to petition the removal of Sen. Louise Lucas.

Sen. Lucas has crossed the line by suing her constituents to the tune of 97 million dollars because the City Council voted against giving her a sweet financing deal for her personal business venture, a hotel/convention center project.

Some people hate when developers and politicians get in bed together. That’s bad enough.

When the developer and the politician are the same person, and that person is a State Senator, and that person sues her constituents 97 million dollars on a claim of racial discrimination because she didn’t get the sweetheart deal she thought she deserved, that’s an outrage.

Lucas is safe in her seat, like Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, until she steps down amid the controversy, or citizens petition the court to remove her.

Over 2,000 names are needed. I think they’ll get it.

Is Jindal a Reagan, an Obama or both?

It’s barely past Thanksgiving, and the first candidate to walk the paths of Iowa is Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana.

If that’s a coincidence, then I’m Joe Biden.

And since I don’t plagiarize speeches or claim that I visit a restaurant that’s been out of business for decades, that leaves the Biden connection out.

The Washington Post has a nice profile of Jindal braving the Iowa winter a mere 3 years before it matters.

Rush Limbaugh calls him the “next Ronald Reagan,” high praise for a 37-year old Governor.

A young Governor from a small state who’s a Rhodes scholar sounds more Clintonian than Reaganesque, but many have Jindal pegged for the Oval Office. It’s just a question of when.

But let’s look at the media’s favorite attacks on Republicans.

The old “they’re stupid” line - uh, they ain’t using that one. Jindal’s education and intellect are well beyond that of any reporter, commentator or pundit.

No “old man” attack that they tried on McCain, Dole, Bush, Reagan, Ford, (see any patterns?)

A young, successful, conservative Governor. We have two. The sexist media had no problems attacking Sarah Palin. Do they have the brass to attack Bobby Jindal?

We’ll see. But for now he’s in Iowa not running for President.

uh huh.

Obama’s latest choice

Let’s see. You defend the man who tried to kill a president.

You defend a Kennedy accused of rape.

You defend Bill Clinton against impeachment.

That’s a shining resume to Barack Obama, who chose Greg Craig as his White House Counsel.

Please tell me what “change” this is?

Reagan’s view of the election

“In the campaign last year, there was a great deal of talk about the seeming inability of an economic system that has provided more for more people than anything we’ve ever known to solve the problems of unemployment and inflation. Issues such as taxes and government power and cost were discussed.

But always these things were discussed in the context of “What did government intend to do about them.” Well may I suggest for your consideration that government has already done too much about them — that, indeed, by government going outside its proper province has caused many, if not most, the problems that vex us.” Ronald Reagan, 1977

Reaganism dead?

The leftist Atlanta Journal-Constitution (which thinks it’s readership is illiterate - they actually record their editorials and read them to you on their website) thinks Obama needs to ditch this bipartisanship talk and give the people some real liberalism - er, leadership.

We don’t need a one-and-a-half party system, with the Democrats playing second fiddle to a hegemonic Republican Party….The way to effective 21st-century governance and a political realignment lies not through empty sloganeering about being centrist and in the middle of the road,

They claim that George W. Bush was a failure because he actually took Reaganism to its logical conclusion and that’s what caused a fiscal meltdown.

They’re wrong, but that’s why they’re editorial writers.

In my book, Bush’s failure is his allegiance to “weak dollar” treasury policies which helps trade but kills the nation.

But Obama promised a lot of what Reagan did. Lower taxes. Going through the budget line by line and eliminating wasteful programs.

Is he going to get that done? Is he even going to try? Or his he going to be a 1993 Clinton and veer so far to the left that the nation clamors for a Republican rebound.

McCain leads Obama 60% to 29%

This was just released today by the non-partisan Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism and it show’s John McCain with an substantial 60% compared to Obama’s 29%

Only problem is the percentages are how much negative media coverage each candidate has received since the conventions.

60 % of stories about McCain have been negative. Only 29% of Obama’s have been negative.

Only 14% of McCain’s coverage has been positive, but Obama’s had coverage that’s been 36% positive.

Don’t ever tell me about the “unbiased, neutral” media ever again.

Obama disagrees with Obama

In An Interview With Tampa Bay’s Fox 13, Obama Praised President Ronald Reagan:

Obama: “You know, I think that Ronald Reagan was delivering the right message at the right time. Because what had happened was I think the Democrats had gotten complacent, had gotten fat and happy. They thought you could get a government program to solve every problem. There wasn’t much attention to how regulation might be choking business. And so Ronald Reagan came in and said we need to break out of the old ways of doing things and create a leaner, more effective government. That was the right message then.” (Fox 13 Tampa Bay’s “MyFoxTampaBay.com,” 10/17/08)

But Obama Said He Has Spent His Entire Life Fighting Reagan’s Policies :

Obama: “I spent a lifetime fighting against Ronald Reagan’s policies.” (Sen. Barack Obama, CNN Democrat Presidential Debate, Myrtle Beach, SC, 1/21/08)

Why don’t the American people demand at least SOME honesty from politicians.

Anti-American Associated Press

This is what counts as news to liberal press reporters.

Check out this banner headline:

Palin says God blessed America with oil and gas

By MIKE BAKER
Associated Press Writer

Ooooooo. What a controversy! Sarah Palin mentioned God!

Hey, Mike Baker. Check out this news story:

Founding Fathers say all men are “endowed by their Creator”

Since when did it become controversial for anyone to mention God.

Remember this HOT associated press story?

Constitution protects “Free exercise” of religion

No, snide Mike Baker doesn’t as he thinks Sarah Palin’s simply mentioning that “God has so richly blessed this land” warrants a news story.

The real news would be someone reporting why anyone uses the AP anymore.

Hey Mike Baker. Report what Ronald Reagan said in 1982.

“I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who came here not in search of gold, but in search of God. They would be free people, living under the law with faith in their Maker and their future. Sometimes it seems we’ve strayed from that noble beginning, from our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to.” Ronald Reagan, February 4, 1982

You’re in good company, Sarah.

Bolling to Kaine: I’ll help, but I told ya so

Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling offered his support to Gov. Kaine in his time of budgetary need.

“I applaud the Governor for his commitment to bring the budget into balance through spending reductions and not higher taxes. While we can discuss where and how these spending reductions should be made, I am committed to working with the Governor to reduce the budget where necessary, while preserving to the greatest extent possible the core services of state government.”

That was a nice gesture. I didn’t think Kaine would be suicidal by offering a tax increase so soon after offering his summertime tax increase, but ya never know. Bolling was classy in applauding Kaine’s choices.

But, there’s still 2010.

However, I am concerned that the Governor’s budget reforecast still anticipates revenue growth of 3.6% in the 2010 fiscal year. Based on current economic performance, I continue to believe that this estimate could prove overly optimistic.

Since Kaine won’t be in the EOB in DC next year, he might want to look at those projections again.

And ya can’t blame Bolling for telling the Governor this:

“a significant portion of this shortfall is due to the unreasonable revenue estimates the Governor included in his budget last year. I warned at the time that the Commonwealth could face significant budget shortfalls if these revenue estimates were not met, and unfortunately that is precisely what has happened.”

I still think we should not be so hasty to pull money out of the rainy day fund (we may need it later), but we’ll see.

The Kaine budget - raise and slash

What a difference picking Joe Biden makes!

Pre-Biden, Tim Kaine is Governor of Virginia and insisting on huge spending increases with rosey budget projections that no one believed, except him and his Secretary of Finance, Jody Wagner, who has since quit to run for Lt. Governor.

Thanks to Kaine and Jody Wagner, Virginia’s budget cranked up the new spending and had revenue estimates we won’t be close to meeting..

The current Lt. Governor, Bill Bolling, is likely to be Wagner’s opponent if she gains the Democrat nomination, had this to say back in February.

“I believe that we should stand in fierce opposition to spending money on new programs at a time when revenues are declining and we are being asked to reduce funding for core government services.”

-Lieutenant Governor Bolling

Today at 11 am, Kaine is announcing how to deal with the budget shortfall, suggesting raiding the rainy day fund and going deeper into debt.

The rainy day fund isn’t supposed to cover inflated spending that shouldn’t have been approved in the first place because of false revenue projections. That’s not solving anything.

Will someone join Bill Bolling and start using real numbers to budget rather than cover bad decisions with debt and reserves?

McCain - Palin to visit Virginia Beach and Richmond

McCain-Palin 2008 announced that John McCain and Sarah Palin will campaign in Virginia on Monday, October 13th. Senator McCain and Govenor Palin will hold a rally in Virginia Beach at 10:00 a.m. at the Virginia Beach Convention Center. Following the Virginia Beach event, Governor Palin will travel to Richmond to hold a 1:00 p.m. rally at the Arthur Ashe Center in Richmond.

Virginia Campaign Co-Chair, Attorney General Bob McDonnell said, “Voters statewide are excited to have the next President and Vice President of the United States bring their message of reform back to Virginia. John McCain and Sarah Palin will bring some much needed straight talk to the voters in Virginia about strengthening our economy, finding innovative solutions to our energy crisis, and keeping America safe. It is going to be a tough race in Virginia, but we are focused on winning Virginia so that John McCain and Sarah Palin can shake things up in Washington.”

Voters can obtain tickets by going to the McCain Virginia website at Virginia.JohnMcCain.com or by visiting one of the Virginia Victory offices starting Tuesday, October 7th from 9:00 a.m. EDT to 9:00 p.m. EDT. Tickets will be available from Tuesday, October 7th through Monday, October 13th.

(from Press Release)

Man shot during Civil War re-enactment

I sometimes wondered when this was gonna happen.

ISLE OF WIGHT - A man was apparently shot during a Civil War re-enactment over the weekend in Isle of Wight County.

The 72-year-old man, who was not identified by police, was apparently shot during a re-enactment at Heritage Park. He was flown to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

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