I’ll be watching too. We’ll see. I do hope sincerely, however, that your retirement account recovers. That is a real bummer. I know.

I don’t think Jesus would consider killing an unborn baby something we would do for him. I am willing to bet no matter how I answer you, you will say “what about the cases of rape and incest?” I think that if abortions were banned the cases of rape and incest would be dealt with (hopefully through adoption) and it wouldn’t even be on the political radar.

You do give a good charge towards anti-abortion advocates, we do need to do more work with charities and organizations that support children who are neglected.

In your opinion. The lesser of the evils would be a better statement.

I forgot DeLay and Abramoff.

Libby, Rove, Saddam has WMDs, biggest recession since the depression, flat housing market, 4000+ dead in a nation building exercise…..guess you all know about falling flat on your face…..er…..governing. My retirement account can’t take anymore of your high quality governing.

I’ll take a shot at something different. Give me a quality centrist (not one of you high minded christian fundamentalists) and I’ll consider it. If I was you, I’d be ashamed of Gov. MILF as my VP candidate. Nobody took her seriously enough to actually vote for her because she would have been worse than Carter! Tell me you are proud of her and think she actually would have been a good president! Connoly governed more people in Fairfax (1 million +) than MILFy (around 700k) and probably had a bigger budget. HE wasn’t qualified to be VP, so why was she? Because she quoted the mantra? Come on, Wolverine, please tell me you care more for this country than that! McCain just bumbled it. The best qualified candidate won the White House.

Now, I will be watching just a closely as you because governing is harder to govern than run. Obama is a politician, and a lawyer. Need I say more? All this transition has been is another installment of the K Street Shuffle. The Blues and Reds trade offices and start the next run for 2012.

Hey sahdman,

I’m actually with you on the schools with respect to accountability to the parents. I served on a couple of committees as a parent representing my kid’s schools. The “professional” educators give you what I call the “teacher face.” You know it. The condecending smile as you explain something to them, all the while ignoring it? Home schooling is an option I support, but it isn’t for everybody. I took the attitude that my tax money pays into the schools, so I’m going to use it and hound them and pay attention and communicate. Guess what happens? They take care of your kid. They are risk adverse and will react, but you have to be willing to get in their grill. Does this work? Ask my 19 year old daughter at Va Tech. All A’s and one B in her first semester. She graduated high school with 18 college credits Tech accepted. All from a PW county school. Go figure.

As for killing babies, how many of the non-aborted babies have YOU adopted? Have you provided maternity care for the mother? Have you helped her go to school and get a job? No? Have you at least wrote her a check for the clothes and food and diapers? No? How many of these babies are going to be raised in crappy situations where they aren’t wanted, ignored, abused, essentially aborted 5 or 10 years after they are born? You probably think she deserves this fate since she got pregnant, right? Jesus said something along the lines of “When you do this for the least of these, you do them for me.” If you want to stop abortion, give me something that shows you are going to care for the baby, otherwise you are lying to us and yourself.

That means whatever happens is all your fault. (Unless you can somehow convince the sheeple that it’s the Republicans fault because they agreed to it, too).

I went to Fairfax County schools I had to put up with the higher standards they had as far as grades go and everyone seemed to do just fine. Of course that was before the Liberals completely took over the county and dumbed it down.

About the hospitals that is just an example. Look what happens to hospitals when they can’t pay the bills they go out of business. D.C. general comes to mind. don’t think it can’t happen to Fairfax. I am not chicken little all I am saying is go to the emergency room at Fairfax Hospital or have your wife have a baby there. You will see what I mean.

T-diddy,

I don’t mind taxes (within reason) but they never build the roads. Warner raised taxes for roads and they never built them. They never build them. They tax and tax and nothing gets done. They can’t maintain the roads they have and you want more?

We need to start home schooling or private schooling and run the public education system out of business. The federal government shouldn’t have a say in our children’s education. It seems a little like something a totalitarian state would do. Get the teachers unions out of the classroom and make teachers accountable to the parents would be a first good step.

Besides, hey all Obama supporters
How many babies did your vote kill today?
I am more than upset that my tax dollars are going to be paying for abortions around the world.

When did Health care become a right? If the government has the right to give me health care they have the right to take it way. Look at Britain they let old people suffer and little children wait for needed surgery. And try to find a dentist. I guess the only way you get speedy quality care is if you are a productive “worker”. Its some sick stuff going on over there.

I agree that the sooner we grow up and realize that we should be willing to bear the costs for wars, “universal healthcare” and infrastructure improvements, the more responsible we might be in incurring those costs in the first place. But there also needs to be some accountability. I get a little tired of the old saw that if we just paid our teachers more, that the quality of education would magically improve. Sorry, but only quality teachers deserve quality pay, and I would be very willing to pay more as an incentive for those high achievers. Teachers who simple show up for work and perform mediocre work should only receive mediocre pay, and there are plenty of them out there, too.

If our elected leaders continue to fear raising taxes, I guess we can continue to borrow from the Chinese and pretend that they will never call to collect on the debt someday.

What I love about you is how your mantra never changes. “Ooooo, taxes are going to sink us!” “Oooo, the liberals are going to embrace illegals and run healthcare into the ground!” You guys need to go back and look at the election results. Obama took Virginia. Warner took Virginia. Webb took Virginia. Kaine took Virginia. In law inforcement, they call those clues! Nobody is buying that stuff anymore.

Virginia Republicans need to retool and rethink their position. The 28 year run beginning with President Reagan is over. Fiscal responsibilility is still a necessity, but you have to drop your mantra and realize taxes are needed to build wider roads to get over the Occoquan without sitting on 95 for an hour twice a day. (God only knows in what state the bridges are given the VDOT budget cuts!) We need to pay teachers better wages so we have people applying that can actually pass the Praxis tests. We need better wages for fire and rescue personnel so they can afford to live here AND eat. I’ll pay $500 more a year to do it. Wouldn’t you?

You all come across as a bunch of people that think, “I have mine, to hell with them.” Prove that I’m wrong!

R for Republicans, R for Reprobate.

D for Democrats, D for WE WON THE GODDAMNED ELECTION AND CONTROL BOTH HOUSES OF CONGRESS!

Enjoy your many, many years in the wilderness!

These dire predictions of yours are all in your mind, friend. You imagine the demise on the INOVA health system, excessive taxation, etc. Couldn’t you at least wait until there’s a problem, or even the HINT of a problem, before you start with your “chicken Little” kvetching?

I cannot believe that I am the one to have to tell you this, but: WE’E ALL BEEN SLAVES FOR QUITE SOME TIME. Grow up already!

Regarding FCPS, I feel sorry for your ignorance: The grading was changed because FCPS students who scored 93 on a test were awarded B+ grades while student in other school systems were awarded A grades for the same test score. This resulted in FCPS student’s transcripts appearing inferior to those of students from other school systems with the same numerical grades.

Seriously, gain an understanding of the issues before you post. It will prevent you from looking this stupid.

R for Republicans, R for Renewal.

They taxed him and gave me a check, they taxed him some more and gave me health care they taxed him some more and gave me retirement then they couldn’t tax him anymore now they are coming after me. they will make us all their slaves and our nation is on its way to being a slave to all the countries we borrow from.

I feel sorry for liberals always accepting mediocrity. Look at Fairfax schools they lower the bar so the children feel better about their grades. I don’t think it will be to long before the schools in Fairfax will start to decline. Liberals ruining another perfectly good county.

I publicly thank you for posting the video to support my brief column.

Let me get this straight: Connolly urges Democrats to lie to and deceive Republicans…And this is wrong why?