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Recently,
Mark Warner has been spotted working on out-of-state
projects. The
Governor professes loyalty to the Commonwealth, and
says he's focused on his state's future challenges
in his final year in office, but he spends his free
time as chairman of the National Governors
Association.
Our
governor travels about the country boasting to other
state Democratic Party organizations and national
Democrats about how a Northern Virginia millionaire
businessman capitalized on Republican internal
strife.
And
how the GOP's
legislative train wreck helped him acquire the
governorship in conservative-leaning Virginia.
And
how he personally championed a massive tax increase
by hoodwinked pro-tax Virginia House and Senate
Republicans to play his stoolies.
You
know whom I'm talking about? Those no-good and
hapless ever-loving tax-and-spenders, so-called
fiscally conservative, dimwitted GOP politicians
that participated in secret tax meetings at the
governor's mansion.
After
the 2004 Republican-dominated Virginia legislature
finalized Warner's billion-dollar tax increase,
Warner was busy planning his spending spree with
those Republican-supplied funds.
Warner
had full knowledge that the state's revenue surplus
was trending high, and that the economic outlook for
the state was extremely good due to Bush's tax cuts.
Moderate,
pro-tax Virginia Republicans, who see as far as the
end of their nose, never bothered to look at the
state's economic and financial forecast.
Yes,
national Democrats have good cause to shout with
delight and take pleasure in those facts!
The
Daily Progress reported
recently that Warner told House Majority Leader
Morgan Griffith that he did not know size of the
surplus. Morgan said back, "I truly believe the
governor because he looked me in the eye and said,
'Morgan, I did not know.'"
Hey
Del. Griffith, the Blue Dog has oceanfront property
in Wyoming I would like to sell.
But
discovering Warner's true intentions are like
searching for the popular 1990s cartoon character,
Waldo?
Remember
Waldo? That gangling, bespectacled boy in the
striped shirt and ski cap was camouflaged somewhere
inside a detailed illustration.
Warner
and Waldo have a lot in common - both are nerdy and
brainy individuals that enjoy playing childish
games, such as hide and go seek, but with Warner
it's a numbers game.
Warner
needs to grow up and admit the 2004 tax increases
were a mistake.
With
a billion-dollar revenue surplus projected,
conservative and anti-tax politicians are foaming at
the mouth and looking forward to the upcoming
session. How can Virginia's citizens honestly
continue to believe Warner's administration?
Let
me count the ways ... there's 1.4 billion of them.
The
Blue Dog has heard that revenue honeymoon is
definitely over ... because Republican General
Assembly members have special plans for the Da Guv
this upcoming session.
Do
you think the temperature just got hotter on the
Third Floor?
I
do.
By
the way, where's my state tax refund, Mr. Governor?
--
January 4, 2005
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