A Senseless Fight
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This one and the gas tax and perhaps a couple of others are to get the Dems “on record” for the next election where their votes will be campaign issues.
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On one hand, it would provide the documentation to show their FIRE.ORG BS is just that, but on the other hand, anticipating their next election cycle big lie is impossible.
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I have never seen such a target rich environment. The stupid votes are too numerous to mention. But the R’s need the candidates and they need to get the rid of their largest (and loudest) national liability.
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Pro-forma on both sides, Fed and state, whenever the opportunity is seen.
Youngkin and the GOP very clearly plan to flip the VA GA Senate and add more GOP to the VA GA HD.
we just did a Federal infrastructure funding bill, said to be in response to the deteriorated transportation infrastructure in the US.
Even in BR, we’ve had articles about bridges that are in terrible condition and roads like I-64 and Rt 58 needing funds.
It’s dumb but it works because voters can be sold virtually any truly bad product if the PR is competent and both sides know it and do it.
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Dick I think amendment 31 will hurt them just as bad if not worse. There are multiple taxes and the transportation area is fully funded. You’re talking 26 cents plus a gallon at a time of heavy driving, when folks could be taking vacations, etc. Trust me, I’ll be using it against ANY and ALL those who voted to stop it.
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Policy = questionable. Politics = golden. For goodness sake Yellen was on TV this weekend talking about suspending the even smaller federal gas tax! But he should have put in an amendment to remove the food tax six months earlier — impossible to vote no on that. Which tells me politics trumped (pardon the pun) policy. The roll call was the goal.
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Policy = questionable. Politics = golden. For goodness sake Yellen was on TV this weekend talking about suspending the even smaller federal gas tax! But he should have put in an amendment to remove the food tax six months earlier — impossible to vote no on that. Which tells me politics trumped (pardon the pun) policy. The roll call was the goal.
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folks want lower/no taxes, until the bridge they use falls down then they blame govt for it.
no win.
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The problem is that the government doesn’t deliver. It’s become an expensive, inefficient, slow and ineffective monster irrespective of which Party controls the levers.
It took only three years for the Alaska pipeline to be constructed. What major government project gets built in three years?
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Covid Vaccines? military aid to Ukraine?
disaster relief to places that have disasters?
social security checks on time?
naw, you can’t just be a hater TMT.
our world including the govt is never perfect, never does any/all things we expect but to ignore the things that it does do is just being a hater.
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Free lunches. Free rent. Free highways. Same concept. 🙂
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What they ought to do is have VDOT draw up a list of projects that will be delayed or cancelled if the gas tax is lowered.
😉
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But the answer was none. The six year plan is funded and the pot continues to overflow. In reality, you can’t speed up the spending to match the revenue with the labor and supply issues.
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The six year plan contains only projects that COULD be funded. The list that did not get funding is large and includes quite a few structurally deficient bridges.
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so why did the GA fund the I-64 project outside the 6yp with general fund taxes instead of with gas taxes/
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As most censorship on college campuses negatively impact liberals, you would think the Dems would want to own this issue.
Related: bring back the Fairness Doctorine…??
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Actually Eric you’ve got it bass ackwards. Our campuses are mostly solidly liberal, and censorship mostly impacts conservatives,
The Dems in the lege understand that which is why they voted the way they did.
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You know this has been measured and supports my characterization. Welcome to reality in the US of A.
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Hahaha, very funny, but a recession is a bad time to try to break into the comedy business.
Yes it has been measured, and no it does not support your mischaracterization. I will welcome your joining us in reality if you ever decide to leave lala land, although that seems unlikely.
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It is a policy statement that both sides should happily embrace. One of my favorite W&M teachers was quite liberal, but really enjoyed it when some of us in class pushed back, especially if we had our facts lined up. It was fun and a true “education.”
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Who was that?
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It’s possible it is more than political posturing by Youngkin – I hope it is. Just by stating it, it sets forth the expectation to see a free speech environment, which, on the margin, OUGHT to encourage more balance. The colleges can see which way the wind is blowing. But as to the Dems in the GA, it does seem pretty stupid – the VA version of TDS, which, in honor of Glenn should be changed to Tallman Derangement Syndrome…
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or fleece vest TDS…. ;-0
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Near agreement with Larry? Something must be wrong!
FDS? Fleece Derangement Syndrome? Maybe…-
perhaps better than Blackface DS ?
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No…the Derangement Syndrome in that case was a self-inflicted cuckolding of Gov Coonman Blackface, acceding to all things DEI…ostensibly to cleanse away his white guilt.
It was the hypocrisy there that got me…
It was him. Everybody knows it. But McGuire Woods couldn’t figure it out… And the woman? My guess is the Missus… -
sounds like a derangement thing to me… your guys version…
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The rightwing DS are too many to tabulate… Vaccine DS, Wokeness DS, Hunter DS… and on and on…
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Nope.
Hypocrisy is hypocrisy.
The only reason he lived is because Fairfax got MeTooed and AG Herring was enough of an idiot to denounce Ralph and then had to admit he was Kurtis Blow (whose songs I like – Basketball, Christmas Rappin and The Breaks were great), so the Dems sucked it up to avoid Gov Cox and the zealots took advantage of Northam’s self-cuckoldization to push their far Left agenda. That’s just the truth… -
like I said about the right wing and their own derangements…
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Larry – you need a mirror. So, it wasn’t about raw power that Northam survived? It was about principle? I believe that deserves a ROTFLMFAO…
So all blackfaces get a free pass now? You’ve already abandoned MeToo and pedophilia (you know, where SlowJoe showers with his daughter…nothing to see…cuz Dem principles! Like Dem SCIENCE! and pregnant and menstruating men…)
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tell me about Bob McDonnell.. just curious – your view?
and SCIENCE – did you trust science to treat your medical condition? yes or no….
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You mean the 9-0 Supreme Court reversal?
You mean the Obama Justice Department prosecuting him?
You mean the Federal Judge who had a grudge for McDonnell opposing his wife for a State Judgeship?
What would you like to know?
Was it tacky? Yes. Was it illegal? No
McDonnell’s problem was he wasn’t a crook like Terry McAwful and rich from graft.
Under the prosecution theory, every politician should be convicted. If you get money from Planned Parenthood and vote against abortion restrictions, were you bought?
Yes I trusted doctors to use the accumulated knowledge to beat leukemia and to go through bone marrow. The VCU protocols were based on 50 years of progress in treating my condition. Sloan Kettering has a slightly different procedure where I have a friend going through it right now. These are real doctors treating real patients and allowed to come to their own conclusions based on the data, not based on bureaucratic decisions that were politically made and enforced, illegally and immorally through blackmail. In fact, why doesn’t the CDC require only ONE way for the BMT process? Maybe, the different approaches leads to better outcomes? You know, like federalism?
So I do not trust SCIENCE! to treat my condition. I trusted doctors and the scientific process. Not bureaucracy. Do you think the CDC did a good job? How come it didn’t have masks already? How come it funded gain of function? How come the lockdowns didn’t work? How come we needed a Trump to speed up the bureaucratic process? How come VAERS isn’t trusted now, after 30 years? I could go on and on, and it is a waste of time because you do not know any of the actual medicine behind Covid. You just defend to death your beloved Dr. St. Fau(x)ci, who is a corrupt bureaucrat. -
“scientific process.”?
hey…do you think the treatment you received works 100% for everyone?
if it does not, is it “experimental”?
Do you think the current therapy is just like it was 50 years ago and did not need t be improved?
re: McDonnell – no not the legal – but what he did when he was in office … good?
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Larry – you are a waste of time. Different people react differently. I think I would be classified as an exceptional outcome. It was caught early. I had a great attitude. I walked 10 miles a day in the hospital with an IV pole. But different hospitals have different protocols. And that is how you improve. That is the scientific process. (and I participated in a medical experiment – megadoses of Vitamin C, for which I had to sign about 10 waivers unlike the Covid vax violation of Nuremberg Code – I would say Vitamin C megadoses was less controversial than mRNA EUA “vaccine”)
What did McDonnell do when he was in office – I think he was somewhat crippled by the fed investigation hanging over his head (the political hit job from the Obama “justice” department) and I think his lawyers mishandled the case. -
so would you say the scientific process might well be the “best available science at that time” – and that changes over time?
Science never is perfect nor has all the answers – it a continuing / evolving process that builds a body of knowledge that is way more valuable than ignorance.
McDonnell took gifts from a guy , big gifts, which was determined by the courts to not be a bribe… but the fact is he took those gifts… so what would you think of that?
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That it was tacky and stupid but not illegal, like I said.
So you also just refuted your one size fits all CDC medical authoritarianism. The CDC’s policies killed hundreds of thousands, because it is corrupt.
Meanwhile, is it OK to award public contracts to cronies? How about the Congressional junkets? How about the events they go to? How about Jamie Raskin and Hickenlooper violating the STOCK Act with late reports recently? How is it that Nancy Pelosi far exceeds the market returns? As do many others in Congress? -
“So you also just refuted your one size fits all CDC medical authoritarianism. The CDC’s policies killed hundreds of thousands, because it is corrupt.”
just the opposite…
you realize that the CDC also affects the treatment you have received, right?
if Hunter took money, it would be just tacky?
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They shoot horses, don’t they? Or, suicide is painless.
Capitol Square is the home of the General Assembly. It was once the home of the Confederate Congress. The issue of the day is the economy not small change arguments of ideology. In the spring of 1863, the Confederate Congress, whose membership consisted of former Democrats and Whigs, actually passed bills addressing runaway inflation and currency collapse. Perhaps our friends on Capitol Square can draw some lessons from 1863. They fought like cats and dogs too, but in the end, action was taken.
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Where do I apply to be the Under Uber Assistant Dean of Stupid Redundant Repetitive Report Assimilation for DIE and 1st Amendment Violations… I assume it will be a six figure salary….can I work from home?
Oppose this? Democrats should embrace this with both arms and legs, print it on billboards, and wrap it in a gilded frame. It is a classic example administrative bloat that can be hung around his neck every year.
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Like the comment.
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That’s why the up-arrow is there, but I appreciate the stated sentiment.
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Greetings from Montana. It’s a rainy day, and we’re stuck in our cabin….
A couple of points here. There are many in Virginia’s college campuses who seriously argue that free speech and expression are a form of white privilege and thus racist. The prevalence of that line of thought reinforces the need to set strong policies. Another reality is that policies are not always honored in practice. Many universities now practice compelled speech in the form if written DEI statements.
I disagree with Duck’s suggestion that these free-expression requirements are about “political posturing.” We’re talking about fundamental issues. But thank you, Dick, for highlighting the issue!
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Hope you weren’t on the north loop when all Hell broke loose.
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Nope. It’s about politics. For as long as I can remember College Campuses have not been friendly places for some speakers.
It’s not a new thing except for the culture war politics.
You can bet a place like Liberty – which also benefits from public money – would also have it’s own preferences about speakers.
I watched this the other day:
This is the same folks complaining about free speech doing the same thing to one of their own.
The free-speech thing is GRADE A culture war BS and kudos to those who are man enough to admit it.
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I think you’re missing a key element here too–
Some of the debate you’ll hear (especially among faculty) on college campuses is “freedom of expression” versus “academic freedom”.
This is really spelled out in a document someone sent me, a faculty report to the Virginia Tech board of visitors. It begins on Page 9 here.
It’s rare, but sometimes they are just being honest. One more piece of evidence that these communists are the sworn enemy of a free people.
The posturing by the Democrats was for their progressive base, Dick. That base opposes free expression by conservatives. They prove it every day in every way.
What the Democratic politicians hoped to accomplish with their no votes was an uninterrupted stream of campaign donations. Lack of Virginia laws limiting campaign donations to Virginia races twists a lot of things on both sides of the aisle. That is the reason in this case, simply stated.
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