but it will never happen. If anyone dares to try to primary Cantor here in VA-07, they usually don’t even stay in the race long enough to even get their name out there. For some mysterious reason, they quietly back away, always, every time. He doesn’t campaign, he doesn’t even have a website for any 2010 campaign. He has yet to have the first townhall up here in the northern end of the district. He knows how we all feel about him up here.

Not only has he not learned the earmark lesson, he hasn’t learned the lesson that no one likes power hungry politicians. He is big government all the way, and has been for many years. I believe that he will try to challenge Boehner for the Speaker position when the R’s take back the Congress. His young guns program have resulted in more in his image.

He’s like a bad dream that just won’t go away.

“If the earmarks actually had merit, they could withstand the entire appropriations process, including review by committee, etc. instead of being added in.”

If earmarks went through the appropriations process, it would automatically be known who is asking for the earmark, and what it is for. The ultimate in transparency.

Earmarks are used as bribes, and, as payback for the politicians constitiuents who supported them during their campaign.

If a city or town wants a bicycle path or a museum, let the residents raise the funds to pay for it. The Federal Government has no place in funding someone’s dreams.

and even if the R’s take one or both houses in November, and we keep the same Republican Ruling Class in leadership positions, in two years the Republican party will be obsolete. They always seem to know how to snatch defeat from victory.

There have been an influx of articles lately written by Republicans and Conservatives, sounding the warning bells to the Republicans should they re-gain any control. Not that I like it, and I don’t support the idea of any third parties, but, doing the same old, same old, will result in the rise of the strongest third party movement in American history. It will make Ross Perot’s campaign look like he was a homeless pauper.

that are paid to states when they have major floods, hurricanes, bridge collapses etc.

If there is a true disaster, however, I am thinking about the oil spill situation in the Gulf, which the feds royally screwed up from the get go. Yes, BP is responsible for the clean up, but, for BP to be ordered to submit funds, to be distributed by a federally appointed person, Feinberg, to dole out, is to cut the bottom out of of BP’s pocket. I don’t believe there will ever be any sunlight shown on Feinberg’s dispersals.

As much as I am trying to envision Perriello back in NY, it may be more dreaming than reality. The largest voting block in the 5th district is in Charlottesville, which is also the most liberal area in the district. It also was the Cville area that was the most engaged in the R primary, and, the word was anyone but Hurt, the Cantor puppet. I want Perriello gone, but, the wind was taken out of the sails of the riled up that were supporting a few of the other candidates. I’m sure Hurt will still get the votes, but, I doubt he will have many ground soldiers, and donations, and he is up against the Soros bank account.

Don’t the House members vote on their leadership at the start of each new Congress? Is seems that those that have seniority are always considered to be next in line.

It may be possible that with enough screaming from us little people out here, it will encourage the better and more competent members to challenge the old guard.

in the basket of the states taking control of their own needs/issues/policy. From everything I read, there is more than just a little chance of the majority of states electing Republican Governors this year.

States such as Arizona, Texas and now Virginia are actually doing the job that the Ruling Class R’s in Washington should have done for the last 4 years, and particularly these past two years. They have watched the Progressives slice and dice the country into little bits, and, the mamby pamby jackwagon R’s haven’t even put up all that much of a fuss.

As I have said before, in VA our Constitutional Conservative Attorney General, has filed federal lawsuits against Ocare, the EPA Endangerment Finding, he has authorized our law enforcement to ask immigration status. On Friday he issued an opinion that Abortion Clinics will now have to be regulated as though they are hospitals, rather than Dental Surgery or Plastic surgery relaxed regs. If it holds, the majority of the baby killing mills will have to close.

One man with courage is an Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force.

was with the Republican leadership in Congress should we win the majority back.

I live in Cantor’s district in VA. I would love nothing more than to send the attitude on steroids back home, but, only if there was a better replacement available to primary him in 2012.

A Republican majority in the House for the next 2 years will accomplish nothing if they have not learned why they were sent home in 06 and 08. Should a majority happen, it will only be because the Progressives have gone over the insanity cliff, not because the R’s have proven themselves worthy. If they go right back to what they did with the majority in the past administration, they will be looking at the shortest majority time period possibly ever.

I would be willing to bet that even the constituients of most of the Congresscreeps would agree to stop bringing home the bacon in exchange for reduced spending every where possible, in order to help reduce the deficit, and to not increase taxes.