Category Archives: Washington

Healthcare funny business

With Nancy Pelosi and gang  making a big push in the House to vote for the Senate’s healthcare bill (which would make that Senate Bill a signable bill for Obama, but I digress), little gems are being revealed all over and Democrats are resigning in droves.
This information coming from Tom Perriello’s office raised quite a [...]

Perriello Blames GOP, Fails to Analyze Himself

Congressmen Tom Perriello tries to lay blame on the GOP for stalling a one month extension of programs supporting laid-off workers and other more wastefully expenditures of money in the bill.  The Republicans finally have concern that the $10 billion bill would add to the budget deficit that is predicted to hit a record $1.56 [...]

Perriello Opposes Self Sufficiency

It seems that our esteemed Congressman along with all the other far left liberals believes that it is up to the Federal Government to take care of the people in their retirement years. As is typical of those on the left he does not believe that the American people are capable of taking care of [...]

Feda For Draft, Against Fairtax

Just recently Feda Morton has taken two stances that appear to set her apart from the other candidates. At a recent forum hosted by the National Armed Forces Fellowship a veterans group Feda stated that she would support a draft.
Clarification on this statement: It has been made known to me that Ms Morton qualified [...]

He’s In He’s Out

Scott Schultz who entered the race for the GOP 5th district Congressional nomination less then a week ago has already dropped out. As of yesterday he sent out an email announcing his withdrawal from the race, this has to be the shortest run for an elected office I have seen.
It is obvious that Mr. [...]

Perriello Bill Fails On All Levels

At first glance the legislation that Congressman Perriello is promoting looked reasonable. This bill cosponsored by Perriello and Congresswoman Markey purposes to repeal the insurance industry’s exemption to the federal anti-trust laws. This exemption came as a result of the McCarron-Ferguson Act of 1945, as a consequence of this act among other things it:
• partially [...]

Another One Enters the Race

As if there is not enough uncertainty in the fifth district GOP race Scott Schultz an Albemarle County resident is preparing to enter the contest and will be making his official announcement today. The primary pool isn’t crowded enough so Mr. Schultz decided he is going to jump in to test the waters out.
I [...]

McPadden Campaign Loses Second Manager

Michael McPadden’s campaign is once again facing major disruption with his second campaign manager leaving in as many months. Joshua Solovskoy the gentleman who took over after Ed Robb left the campaign in early December has just recently called it quits. Having this very dedicated supporter leave the campaign has got to be a [...]

Perriello Bill Stalled By Snowstorm

Ten days ago freshman Congressman Tom Perriello teamed with Congresswoman Betsy Markey to introduce legislation that will repeal the special anti-trust exemption for health insurance companies and medical malpractice insurance companies. On the surface it looks appealing, after all why should one industry have a special exemption that others do not. That is one of [...]

GOP Primary Poll Released

Below are the results of the GOP Primary poll conducted by Public Policy Polling. To me there is only one surprise in this poll and that is that Ferrin polled as well as he did, other than that the results are what I expected. It is obvious that at this point name recognition favors Hurt [...]