Category: Congress and Congresspersons
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A Slippery Slope Down to Dark Backroom Deals
by Chris Braunlich Unless Virginia voters reject the constitutional amendment on the ballot April 21, gerrymandering will return to Virginia. Five years ago, 66% of Virginia voters — 2.8 million Virginians — approved a bipartisan redistricting constitutional amendment ending gerrymandering. The result was a map that is widely regarded as one of the fairest in…
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Redefining Time
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Most people to understand a “day” to constitute a 24-hour period of time. They understand that the term “work days” generally exclude weekends and holidays. Furthermore, for those that follow government and politics, “legislative days” is understood to mean those days in which the legislature is in session. Notwithstanding those commonly accepted definitions, Virginia’s Republican…
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Tim Kaine Wants to Erase Robert E. Lee
by Kerry Dougherty You can always count on Democrats to engage in vacuous virtue signaling, especially during Black History Month. This year it’s Sen. Tim Kaine offering proof that attending Harvard Law School doesn’t automatically confer knowledge on students. As our country struggles with immigration, election integrity and budget matters, Kaine is consumed with something…
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This is Overreach
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The redistricting map presented by Democrats is outrageous, embarrassing, and just plain outlandish. I can’t think of other words to describe it. It certainly violates the state constitution’s requirement that districts be compact. The traditional ideas of respecting communities of interest and jurisdictional boundary lines to the extent possible were thrown out the…
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Sen. Mark Warner Pledged To Serve Just Two Terms.
That Was 29 Years Ago. by Kerry Dougherty Lucky us. Democrat Senator and full-time whiner, Mark Warner, announced Tuesday that he’s running for a fourth term. Sigh. This 70-year-old multi-millionaire businessman has been sitting in the Senate (when he isn’t in his car making cringy videos about how much he hates Trump) since 2008. Although…
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Virginia Nursing Homes – Southwestern Region Update
by James C. Sherlock This article was revised on November 16 to provide a better view of the data. The format the author chose wasn’t getting the job done, so he revised it. Changes in the text are made only to reflect the updated spreadsheet. It should provide more clarity. This is the third article…
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Virginia’s Nursing Homes – Central Region Update
by James C. Sherlock This article was revised on November 16 to provide a better view of the data. The format the author chose wasn’t getting the job done, so he revised it. Changes in the text are made only to reflect the updated spreadsheet. It should provide more clarity. This is the second article…
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Virginia’s Nursing Homes – Eastern Region Update
by James C. Sherlock This article was revised on November 16 to provide a better view of the data. The format the author chose wasn’t getting the job done, so he revised it. Changes in the text are made only to reflect the updated spreadsheet. It should provide more clarity. This will be a sub-series…
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Virginia General Assembly to Consider Redistricting to Increase Democratic Representation in Congress
Both houses of the General Assembly are planning to convene on Monday, Oct. 27. The notices went out to the members today. Technically, this will be a reconvening of the 2024 Special Session I, which never adjourned sine die. As reported by the Virginia Political Newsletter, the main item of interest will be Virginia getting…
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The Colonial Heights Scandal – the Tip of a Very Large Iceberg
The Boys from Lakewood by James C. Sherlock Most of them are quite young. They have a lot in common. They are friends in many cases. Some grew up together. More are related through blood or marriage. Many have worked together. Some are a second generation of their families in the nursing home industry; To…
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Virginia Republicans in Congress Caved In
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The national debt is $36.2 trillion. Morgan Griffith (Ninth District), Ben Cline (Sixth District), and John McGuire (Fifth District), Republican members of Congress from Virginia have expressed great concern about the national debt. McGuire has called it “the biggest threat to the U.S.” Several years ago, Griffith lamented the “skyrocketing national debt.” Two…
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Talking Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths
by Dick Hall-Sizemore Two members of Virginia’s Congressional delegation, Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-2nd District) and Rep. Rob Wittman (R-1st District) seem to be in a bind over how to handle budget decisions coming up later this year in Congress. As reported by the Richmond Times-Dispatch, they joined ten other Republican members of the House of…
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Mark Warner Needs A Thesaurus
by Kerry Dougherty For years, they’ve worked as an adjunct to the Democratic National Committee, obediently trotting out talking points and providing their critics with hilarious montages of these mid-wits spouting the exact same lines. With their heads spinning since Donald Trump became president, the left has latched onto a tired word to characterize what…
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Bobby Scott Helped Free Notorious Cop Killer Peltier
By Steve Haner Congressman Robert “Bobby” Scott, a long serving Democrat from Newport News once in the Virginia Senate, joined several congressional colleagues late in 2024 to petition President Joe Biden on behalf of one of the most notorious of cop killers. Biden agreed and granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, popular with leftists around the…
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Kaine Beclowned Himself at Hegseth Hearing
by Kerry Dougherty Few television productions are more harder to watch than Senate confirmation hearings. Given the virulent strain of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has infected the left, yesterday’s Pete Hegseth hearing was a festival of Democrat histrionics. We watched leftist women reduced to unstable, screaming harpies. The men – led by Tim Kaine –…