Brian and Jim go to Richmond

Interview with Bob McDonnell

Drake votes with the majority for high speed rail

Cash for Flunkers
SNL just nails it in this skit. My favorite line at 3:21 states “each of your plans to save money involves spending even more money”

New Math 2.0
In a world of supercomputers and sophisticated programming languages, one would think keeping track of stimulus money going to 435 Congressional districts would be a job for a computer science intern. But for just $18M, the shiny new website, Recovery.gov, which was created to promote government transparency and accountability

Jeff McWaters attacks Ron Villanueva’s record
Bobby Mathieson should accuse McWaters of plagiarism. Hours before the Thanksgiving holiday, mailboxes throughout the 8th Senate district got their holiday cheer, an attack by McWaters on Rosemary Wilson which sounds exactly like Democrat Bobby Mathieson’s recent failed attacks on Delegate-elect Ron Villanueva about City Council compensation. McWaters is at least funny about it. After bashing Rosemary throughout the piece, he complains about negative campaigning. Har Har har.

Forbes: Beyond Thanksgiving Dinner
By Congressman Randy Forbes If you are the lucky family member who is tasked with Thanksgiving dinner grocery shopping, you may have noticed a slightly higher grocery bill this week than years before. And while you may have growing teenagers who are consuming more and more food, an ever-expanding list of “must-have” dishes, or the addition of the in-laws this year, the reality of the price increase is probably related to something even further out of your control. During the last year, U.

Somebody, please take a sledgehammer to that table!
Gov. Tim Kaine, Gov-elect Bob McDonnell and Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling all attended the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Revenue Estimates (GACRE) today and received less than stellar news regarding the state budget. The estimators predicted that “Virginia needs to cut an additional $250 million from the budget and be prepared for a $3 billion shortfall in the next two years”, reports the