By Peter Galuszka
You won’t hear much about this on Bacon’s Rebellion, but on Wednesday, Donald J. Trump became the third U.S. president in history to be impeached.
The vote in the House of Representatives split right down party lines with Virginia’s Democrats voting for impeachment and Republicans voting against.
Leading the charge were Abigail Spanberger of the 7th District and Elaine Luri of the 2nd District. The former CIA operative and former Navy officer showed considerable guts because they flipped seats normally safely held by Republicans who promise to come after both of them next year.
The strictly bipartisan impeachment vote is being mirrored in Virginia now that Democrats have taken control of the General Assembly. A number of conservative Republicans who had been running the legislative show for years have retired and the state GOP is in serious disarray.
Gov. Ralph Northam is pushing a big $135 billion budget that provides long-needed spending for mental health and education. The Trump fallout is fueling an atmosphere that will embolden Democrats to push ahead with such measures and raising Virginia’s ridiculously low cigarette tax.
Bacon’s Rebellion, meanwhile, has largely ignored Trump by pretending he doesn’t exist. The blog picks apart spending by revealing that it is a “progressive” budget. Of course it is. What’s the big discovery?
Virginia, however, is unlikely to become too leftist despite one especially silly blog post claiming the Virginia Democrats want to out-California California.
It’s time to wake up and realize that a sea change has occurred and the state is no longer what some bloggers imagine it to be or wish it still was. Get over it.
