If only Barbara Comstock would support more tax increases and amnesty for illegal immigrants like the Republican candidate in the 8th district, Micah Edmond, the Washington Post might have been able to endorse her.[read_more] (Even with those things the Post didn’t endorse Micah Edmond.) Comstock’s refusal to support more unfair tax increases for Northern Virginia makes her untenable for the editorial board at the Washington Post. But the Post editorial board can’t bring themselves to endorse democrat John Foust either,
Mr. Foust has been a solid supervisor — he knows the county budget, and he played a constructive role in promoting Metro’s Silver Line extension — but shows no spark as a campaigner and no deviation from party talking points.
In the 11th district the Washington Post has endorsed the sleazy anti-semite Gerry Connolly over the very competent Suzanne Scholte. The best the Post could say about Gerry Connolly,
(he is) well-versed and effective in addressing the problems of federal workers.
Yawn. Damning with faint praise. The 11th district would be far better served by Suzanne Scholte.
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Jeanine – I like your blog, but please tell me exactly what makes Congressman Connolly a “sleazy anti-Semite.” I hope there is more to your charge than this – http://www.tpnn.com/2014/03/11/congressman-gerry-connolly-having-fundraiser-hosted-by-anti-semitic-muslim-brotherhood-ally/
Of course, the same article you cite as being negative against Foust, says this about Comstock: , Ms. Comstock, in her four years in Richmond, has been the sort of inflexible politician that has led Congress to paralysis….Ms. Comstock wins, we hope she recasts herself in Mr. Wolf’s mold, for another partisan warrior in Congress in the last thing voters need.
I hope that if she wins she ignores the radical right, my-way-or-the-highway, anti-individual, anti-anyone different, views of this site
So you’re against Republicans because you take the Obama view that they are “inflexible” and result in “paralysis” in Congress.
Well, in Obama’s first two years he had a rubber stamp Democratic House and Senate.
The result was a spectacular failure of a stimulus bill which resulted in few “shovel ready” jobs and a big increase in unemployment – just the opposite of what the Democrats promised. We could have used a few more “inflexible” Republicans to stop that pork laden disaster.
And the second result of that rubber stamp liberal Democrat Congress was the FUBAR Obamacare, arguably the most screwed up piece of legislation in U.S. history. Not a single Democrat even read the legislation prior to the vote and one of the co-authors, Sen. Max Baucus, later called it a train wreck.
We all remember the 3 big promises made by Obama and his rubber stamp liberal Congress:
If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
If you like your healthcare plan you can keep your health care plan.
The average family will save as much as $2500 a year in premiums.
All three are now proven lies.
The stupid Obama plan could not even get a web site – on which close to a billion dollars was wasted – to function properly.
If that’s what liberals want for our country, please bring on the so-called paralysis!
Digoenes – do you find it interesting that you automatically connect republicans with my concern about the radical right. I have never said that I am against Republicans. In fact, I am trying to find decent candidates to support, those that do not take a radical stance on either side. No, my concern is not with the GOP as much as it is with the radical stance that many of the vocal GOP supported take, such as religion should be more important than democracy and support for Gov’t intervention into personal lives.
The comment about Comstock being “inflexible” came from the Washington Post in the same article that Jeanine quoted as slamming Foust. Of course, if you actually read before you react you would have known that.
As far as your complaints about ACA and Obama, get over it. It is up to the congress to pass legislation. When they don’t do that, they have no one to blame but themselves.