I for one would like to see Del. Bob Marshall become Speaker Marshall. That is not so much a reflection on the job that Howell has done; because compared to the vanquished GOP Senate Leadership, Howell looked real good. HB 3202 was a debacle however, and this is my take on the whole thing, and more.
The Transportation crisis that won’t go away. Didn’t we supposedly have a $600M dollar short fall this year because last year’s Senate and House spent like 6% in projected revenues, but Virginia’s economy only delivered 3% or so… Our leadership knew the housing slowdown in NOVA, and statewide really was well underway, but they spent the 6% anyhow.
Can anyone else think of a better reason to not change Captains? Don’t predict 6′ of water and then run the vessel aground. Knowing it’s us they are looking towards to pay for the damage done, in higher taxes. Howell should have called the Senate GOP Leadership on this….
The Va GOP needs to seriously look inward and ask themselves, are we the party of limited government and lower taxation? Because if we are not, what’s the point in asking the electorate to vote for the GOP? Can’t we put to rest half of the old adage that the two biggest lies in politics are:
- The Democrats are for the working class
- The Republicans are for smaller government.
I think the election of Jeff Frederick Chair of RPV sent a lightning bolt through the party leadership that they better wake up too.
Here’s the real deal, the rank and file GOP grassroots needs to demand the culture of:
“You Send it, We’ll Spend it”
Gets Exorcised from the GOP thought process… It should be, you send it, we meet the basic governmental needs, and send the rest back to the tax payers…. This gives me visions of levitating beds, heads spinning, and green vomit, but does anyone remember… oh say…
Governors George Allen and Jim Gilmore? Exactly what message were they preaching when they swept themselves into the State House, and historic GOP majorities in the General Assembly
?
If this doesn’t make common sense to you, it’s because you like the culture of the General Assembly as it is… You deserve to be in the minority, you will be primaried.. because the peasants are at the gates again folks…. We’re cranking back the handles on the catapults, and fixin to launch in a couple cows, (visualize Monty Python’s Search For the Holy Grail).
MOOOOOOOO!!!!
