WaPo Numbers Reveal Huge Problem for T-Mac
The Washington Post released results of their latest poll of the Virginia gubernatorial race, revealing a commanding 10 point lead for Ken Cuccinelli over the presumptive…
Read articleWhat is Terry Hiding?
RPV has been hammering hard calling for Terry McAuliffe to release his tax returns. Susan Stimpson, candiddate for Lt.Governor agrees. Stimpson has released a press release…
Read articleWhy did Mike Farris endorse Pete Snyder?
In 2011, conservative republicans in Loudoun were surprised and puzzled by Mike Farris’ support of Scott York for Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. Mike Farris,…
Read articleAbout that sequester…
One of the amber-encased pieces of conventional wisdom regarding the sequester is that the Administration has no room to maneuver on what spending it can reduce.…
Read articleThe President, the deficit, and Keynesian theory
During last week’s scare session on the sequester, the president said something very revealing about himself (via Peter Kirsanow): Lay offs and pay cuts means (sic) that people…
Read articleThe gory details on the tax hike “compromise”
The numbers are out on the conference committee’s tax hike plan…and if anything, it’s worse than we thought. For starters, the plan raises taxes by $682…
Read articleBREAKING NEWS—-Senate blocks the Hagel nomination.
Senate democrats have failed to stop the filibuster on the nomination of Chuck Hagel for Defense Secretary. They needed one more vote and they didn’t get it.…
Read article…and it just gets worse in Richmond
Well, the Senate Finance Committee replaced McDonnell’s tax hike with one that, according to the Daily Press, came from Frank Wagner. Wagner’s proposal is the third…
Read articleMcDonnell’s tax increase in Senate Finance Committee today
HB2313 – a.k.a., Governor McDonnell’s tax increase – is on the agenda for the Senate Finance Committee today; for all I know, it has already been…
Read articleHowell’s death-blow to Senate redistricting clears way for tax hike
One can argue on the merits and optics of the State Senate GOP’s redistricting move last month, but Dick Saslaw made one thing clear to the…
Read articleNewman-Cuccinelli tax hike dies in Senate, McDonnell tax hike passes House of Delegates (UPDATED)
It was a wild day in Richmond today. The festivities started in the House, which passed McDonnell’s transportation tax hike (minus the “fees” that were-taxes-in-another-name because…
Read articleMy reaction to the fiscal cliff debacle: the GOP caved, and will again
So while I was on vacation, the Republicans did what I expected them to do in the “fiscal cliff deal” – they caved. They did not…
Read articleIt really is Bush’s fault, Part 1: the temporary tax cuts
The 2012 election has led, in theory, to a large amount of “soul-searching” in the Republican Party. However, one datum from the electorate that has largely…
Read articleDemocrats On Trial For Voter Fraud In My Hometown
The city where I was born, Troy, NY (also home to Sam Wilson a.k.a. the real “Uncle Sam”) is holding trials of Democrats accused of voter…
Read articleRasmussen: Romney ahead in Ohio
As Hurricane Sandy bears down on the northeast, Rasmussen provides the first poll on Ohio with Romney in the lead (albeit a statistically insignificant one). If…
Read articleWhy are we surprised?
There’s been some surprise at the ill-mannered behavior of the Democrats’ candidate in tonight’s VP debate. I’m not sure why. The British House of Commons hasn’t…
Read articleOrganized labor admits to ignoring Obama/Kaine War on Coal for “weeks”
Amidst the brouhaha over the labor bosses’ PAC “Worker’s Voice” ads ripping Allen in Northern Virginia, many of us in the rightosphere wondered why the union…
Read articleWhat John McLaughlin is saying about pollsters, weights, and voter suppression
John McLaughlin is a Republican pollster and source for Jim Geraghty of National Review. Geraghty asked McLaughlin about undecided voters, and got some discussion on general…
Read articleWe Call it Mini-Tank
Tim, this is great. Let me show you how we have reduced the Department of Defense budget. We made the tanks smaller. We use short…
Read articleObama’s convention bounce will finish…fin-…ffffft
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than one week after the president’s renomination convention ended, Rasmussen is reporting that his post-convention bounce is gone, and Mitt…
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