Now that the dust has nearly settled from an historic and exciting election cycle in Virginia, we turn our focus to the upcoming session. One of the primary reasons I decided to start this blog was to confront the hyperpartisan Virginia Republicans (most of whom can be found in statewide office or in the House Caucus) who have consistently gone out of their way to thwart good policy for the sake of what they believe to be good politics.
Now that the VA GOP has lost the Governor’s mansion, two Senate seats, a majority in the congressional delegation, a majority in the State Senate and numerous seats in the House of Delegates, will this be the year that they connect the dots between their awful performance and their rapidly decreasing share of elected positions in Virginia?
Will Bob McDonnell, Bill Bolling, Bill Howell, Morgan Griffith and Kirk Cox resort to the same floor gimmicks and cheap stunts they have used in past sessions to thwart Governor Kaine’s agenda and threaten their majority in the process?
At a time of great economic distress and unprecendented demand for solutions from government, I hope the House Republicans bring more to Richmond in 2009 than the empty rhetoric and gridlock of years past.
