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Va. Gov. Lauds Spending Freeze, Decries Deficit
By not in system - AOL News(Jan. 27) -- Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell addressed the federal deficit, job growth and health care reform in the Republican response to President Obama's State of the Union address Wednesday night. In a speech that at times sought to reach common ground with the president, McDonnell, who took office on January 16, lauded Obama's announced freeze on discretionary spending and said he was encouraged by the president's promises on job creation. But he also called the current federal debt level "unsustainable," blaming Democratic policies for the deficit of more than $100,000 per household. He ...
Is Bob McDonnell the Future of the GOP?
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyFALLS CHURCH, Va. - The Republican Party stands to gain a new A-lister this week in Virginia governor-elect Bob McDonnell, who ran his race here with near-perfect temperament, focus, discipline and hair.It wasn't an interesting horse race, what with McDonnell ahead of Democrat Creigh Deeds by double digits in multiple polls leading up to the election. But Democrats and independents who've been busy, indifferent or worn out from last year's intensity shouldn't fool themselves into thinking that little was at stake. With his landslide victory, McDonnell has the opportunity to become a national ...
New Poll, Differing From Others, Puts McDonnell Way Up in Virginia
By Bruce Drake - Politics DailyMost recent polls have shown the Virginia governor's race between Republican Bob McDonnell and Democrat Creigh Deeds narrowing, but SurveyUSA continues to be an outlier, putting McDonnell ahead by 55 percent to 41 percent with 4 percent undecided. The margin of error is 4 points. ...
Bob McDonnell's Kind of Catholicism Isn't Mine
By Mary C. Curtis - Politics DailyMy faith is being hijacked, and I don't like it. Bob McDonnell, the Republican candidate for governor of Virginia, is busily mending fences with anyone who might be offended by his ideas that working women and family don't mix, a thought expressed in a graduate thesis when he was a lad of 34."The Republican Party's Vision for the Family: The Compelling Issue of the Decade" of 20 years ago was more of a 93-page action plan that, among other things, decried the creation of tax credits for child care because they "subsidize a dynamic new trend of working women and feminists that is ultimately ...
Bob McDonnell: More Catholic than the Pope?
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAs the furor over Robert F. McDonnell's apparently paleo-conservative views on working women and contraception and the like roil his campaign for governor in Virginia, what has gone largely unquestioned is the assumption that the Mass-going Catholic is simply -- and faithfully -- reflecting the paleo-conservative views of his church. In fact for many, the ideas that the Republican candidate espoused in his 1989 master's thesis, which was unearthed by The Washington Post on Sunday, would seem to make Bob McDonnell at least as Catholic as the pope.In the thesis, McDonnell -- then 34 years old ...
Bob McDonnell's 'Rebranding' is Going to be a Tough Sell
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyAs Melinda and Jill have mentioned, a 20-year-old homework assignment written by the GOP candidate for Virginia's governor recently tilted his carefully crafted campaign image into that of a barely evolved Neanderthal. For a good portion of Virginia's voters, the 55-year-old former state assemblyman and attorney general, Robert McDonnell, looks like their kind of guy. The pro-life, conservative, father of five, whose motto is "not to make excuses and to be accountable for my own actions," has a good chance of getting elected as Virginia's chief executive. His opponent, Democrat Creigh Deeds, ...
Virginia Voters Reject Clinton Ally; Creigh Deeds is Democratic Gov Nominee
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyVirginia Democrats are sticking to a tried-and-true formula for winning. In their three-way gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, they said no to a national figure with close Clinton ties and a liberal with a brother in Congress.Instead, they overwhelmingly picked state Sen. Creigh Deeds -- a moderate whose manner is the opposite of flamboyant. If that sounds like Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine and his predecessor, Democrat Mark Warner, well, why mess with a good thing?Deeds sailed past Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman with Clinton connections and a personality often ...
Clinton Loyalist Still Fighting, This Time For Himself
By Jill Lawrence - Politics DailyCompared to raising money by wrestling an alligator or singing onstage at an Indian casino, both of which he's done, Terry McAuliffe is waging a relatively tame campaign for Virginia governor. ...
Terry McAuliffe, Partisan Windbag, Running for Governor of Virginia
By David Knowles - Politics DailyThe other day I got an e-mail from Terry McAuliffe giving me (and all the other people on a voluminous contact list) the inside scoop: Terry had decided to become the Governor of Virginia! Fresh off his abrasive stint as a spokesman and adviser for Hillary Clinton's failed bid to become the Democratic nominee, it seemed that McAuliffe just couldn't stomach the prospect of a campaign-free existence. So, after the potential donor base had been notified first, a YouTube clip went forth to the population at large, heralding the news:It's funny to listen to Terry talk non-partisan solutions, ...
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