McDonnell on the Hill
By E M Barner | Thursday, September 16th, 2010 | PolicyCongressman Cantor introduced Governor Bob McDonnell to members of the Republican Study Committee as “His Excellency,” the official title of Virginia Chief Executive. McDonnell met yesterday morning with a select group of conservative members of Congress on Capitol Hill. He had a clear message for Washington Republicans who are hoping to take back the majority: “Do less, not more” when governing.
In candid conversation with conservative members of Congress, McDonnell stressed the value of Republican ideas and principles over rhetoric.
McDonnell condemned the evident bi-partisan trend of trampling on the principles of federalism and encouraged Members of Congress to respect the forgotten 10th Amendment . He urged the Members to govern like they have campainged – on the principles of limited government, fiscal sanity and personal responsibility.
Speaking as a Governor and a member of Republican Governor’s Association, McDonnell strongly counseled the Members against bailing out states that are in a poor fiscal position. While acknowledging that some stimulus monies helped Virginia balance its budget in the short term, he maintained that bailouts would lead to a “45 state” lineup at the federal trough. Instead, McDonnell asked the Members to stop enacting new mandates that burden the states and force tax increases or cuts in more essential services. McDonnell noted that Obamacare alone imposed $1.7 billion in new mandates on Virginia.
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E M Barner, the blogger formerly known as DCH / De Civitate Hominis (“concerning the city of man”), writes from a Northern Virginia perspective. Barner has been active in Republican politics and policy since 1994 – as a grassroots volunteer, party leader, and professional.
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24 Responses to "McDonnell on the Hill"
It’s about time conservative values got to Washington. It’s a shame that the Governor of Virginia had to deliver the message.
The next US Senator from VA Bob McDonnell
Did he deliver this message with a straight face? Of course he did, fairy tales are his trademark. Those who want to believe, will believe no matter what the facts are. Failing to invest in the Commonwealth’s infrastructure simply kicks the can down the road. McDonnell has caused the firing of more employees than jobs he has created. Tuition rises threaten the public university system. We are the stingiest state in the nation for medicaid. To try to provide a pittance for transportation, he must sell an asset providing $250M per year to the general fund. Plus, he looks good mostly because of the stimulus funds for K-12 and public safety. If this is the best the Governors have, they had better prepare for the reaction.
Glenn Nye says that he wants to continue the Bush tax cuts (the current tax rates) for everyone.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/17/expiring-tax-cuts-hit-taxpayers-level/
Expiring Tax Cuts Hit Taxpayers at Every Level
If that is true, I regret his position. Any person who is actually concerned about reducing the deficit must support the elimination of the Bush era tax cuts for the rich which multiplied the deficit every year they have been in effect. Now that we are in recovery, that new jobs are being created, that the stock market is improving and loans are being made to small businesses, wealthy americans should once again pay their full share. If McConnell and Boehner/Cantor really believed in deficit reduction, they would support the elimination of tax cuts for the rich as well.
Nye, Rigell and Golden all have the exact same position on keeping the current tax rates.
So when you attack someone who wants to keep the current tax rates, you attack all three candidates.
Yes James, I believe I said I regret Nye’s position on this matter as well. The fact that Rigell signed the tea party pledge, which would handcuff him from making tough decisions about what is right for the nation, especially in times of emergency, reveals to me that he will pander to the far right for votes, knowing full well he would never do this for his own business. That is a sign to me he is not the kind of independent leader we need representing us in the House.
James Hawkins, Kenny Golden fully supports the FAIR TAX. No way in hell does he support current tax rates, that is counter to his campaign and I am resisting calling that post above a lie but it looks like one. I hops Scotty also supports the Fair Tax but if he did then he would break his pledge..
Hunting is good today! Bagged 2 BS’ers so far..
Turbo, are you saying that Mr Golden wants to raise taxes?
The Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year.
Does Mr Golden want them to expire or does he want to continue them ?
James, call Kenny Golden at 581-7499 and hear it from the candidate directly.
Think I will go have some lunch at Bunny’s in Suffolk instead. Some greens cooked with bacon will taste good about now. And they have potato salad just like my grandmother used to make.
“The Bush tax cuts came up during the very first debate between Nye and Republican Scott Rigell and Independent Kenny Golden, and all three said they support extending the tax cuts to make sure that the economic improvement and growth isn’t hamstrung. So Golden and Rigell will likely agree with Nye on this issue.”
http://hrblogs.typepad.com/the_shad_plan
Good thing Bob went up to the Hill before all the Tea Party folks get in. They’d think he was a useless liberal.
What’s so bad about the Tea Party?
http://conservativehq.com/blog_post/?blog
First and Second Amendment Rights, limited government, fiscal responsibility, free market and good ole capitalism. Yeah, as this is what the Tea Party represents.
Meanwhile, good ole boy bipartisan work in Washington just isn’t working. It has gotten us the most partisan president and congress in history.
Voting for more government spending, crap and tax (no matter what they’re calling it this week). You can call crap anything you want. At the end of the day, it’s still crap.
Hey John: you know cap and trade is a Republican idea, right?
“Any person who is actually concerned about reducing the deficit must support the elimination of the Bush era tax cuts for the rich which multiplied the deficit every year they have been in effect. ”
You know, I’ve been hearing that a lot lately in the news and blogs and have wondered how a tax cut increases the deficit.
I have to admit, my financial savvy isn’t all that great. My stocks and 401k is in the toilet. My house needs a snorkel even though the city still thinks I live on a hill of cash. I haven’t bought a new car in years. And the old career path has taken me off a cliff. I just don’t have what it takes to be rich, I suppose. So how about it, Mike? Educate me with your superior knowledge of finance.
…and your point? The liberal Democrats didn’t come up with the economy either but they managed to screw it up too.
@Darrell, your question is a good one. I’m interested to see Mike’s answer. As for my comment was directed at Steve.
Mike’s in commercial real estate development and unlike previous Democratic administrations, he is having trouble paying people in the McDonnell administration to listen to him. So, the next best thing is he that he frequently writes in the comment section of the VP and also here to rally former Creigh Deeds and Glenn Nye supporters to his causes of blaming Bush, inventing taxes and fees, raising existing taxes and fees, then raising all the “invented” and “existing” taxes and fees to suck the life out of our Old Dominion.
“Their” money would be spent on construction and road projects as political patronage for loyalty in the construction/contractor/developer “good old boy club” who hangs around at “country clubs”, take turn hosting their parties on each other’s yachts, and visit their beach front property in Costa Rica or Belize. Any nickels and dimes left over are thrown over to a couple of domestic programs that help ease their social guilt and to get favorable press to make us think they are magnanimous and selfless defenders of “the small people” . Mike and those like him are profiled in Michael Savage’s book “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”.
Thanks for the profile Tim J. I guess you got just about every republican prejudice in that post. Fact is, if the Bush tax cuts for the rich are not allowed to expire as scheduled, the deficit will increase by trillions, not decrease as scheduled, and the only way we will be able to afford it is to borrow more money from China. So do you really support deficit reduction? If so, the tax cuts for the rich should be allowed to expire. If you can’t understand that, you really don’t want to, do you?
“the only way we will be able to afford it” … well, what if “we the people” think that the on-going “transformation” to bigger government is “change” that we don’t want to “afford” anymore? “Tax cuts for the rich” is a side show compared to the spending spree your buddies are on.
And now for a little Halloween metaphor in keeping with the season…. We will be standing right behind Grover Norquist with idling MS 880 Stihl chainsaws and a fleet of Liebherr mining trucks to support dismemberment of this “Obamination” of our government and help haul it away when the insane are replaced with the sane in Congress. Of course, you can always go on vacation to one of your domiciles in warmer climes and watch via broadband while we take apart your “tax and spend” utopia.
I guess I don’t find the cuts particularly funny, especially when they effect the elderly, the infirmed, children, and those in need. I guess for you, social security, MediCare, and MediCaid would be gone, roads would be abandoned instead of maintained and improved, and the middle class would be enslaved again so the rich can vacation in Europe and buy better wine. Frankly, I don’t care for those alternatives, although with the pandering of the republicans to the radical right fringe, that is where we appear to be heading.
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