An Open Letter To The Republican Party: The Line In The Sand

By Jamie Jacoby No more beating around the bush. I don't work for you, you work for me. Got it? Do you want my vote in November 2012? Here are my terms: 1. If you nominate retread insider George Allen to be the Virginia senate candidate, I won't be voting R 2. If you raise [...]

By |2011-06-07T10:32:47-04:00June 7th, 2011|Uncategorized|5 Comments

Eric Cantor needs to hear from us on the debt ceiling

An excerpt from my latest post on redstatevirginia.com: We heard all kinds of doomsday prophesies from the Washington Spenders about how the world would literally end if America didn’t raise its debt ceiling in time. Yet when we reached it, all Treasury Secretary Geithner had to do was move some funds around to keep us [...]

By |2011-06-06T21:05:59-04:00June 6th, 2011|Economy|0 Comments

House Debt Ceiling Vote TODAY — Call your Rep!; UPDATE: Vote fails 318-97

Though I haven't seen this reported in the media, I received an alert from Freedomworks that the U.S. House is holding a vote TODAY on raising the Debt Ceiling. I called Rep. Cantor's office and was told that he doesn't yet have a statement. We need to do everything we can to show Congress we [...]

By |2011-05-31T21:52:06-04:00May 31st, 2011|Action Alerts|0 Comments

Groupthink On Display At Bearingdrift

If anyone believes the political establishment has a solution to the debt problem, please visit one of Virginia's close-minded "conservative" republican establishment political blog sites, bearingdrift, and see for yourselves. From an article posted there titled "Virginia Candidates React to Debt Ceiling Issue": That the U.S. has a debt ceiling at all is unusual. Most [...]

By |2011-05-18T19:49:10-04:00May 18th, 2011|Economy|0 Comments

Or Else, What?

"We have to do it" came the cry. "It's the end of the world." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pD8viQ_DhS4 Guess what? We let them get away with it, and now they're doing it again. It's the ultimate trump card, trumping reason, trumping fact, and trumping consensus. They're going to play this trump card until we make them stop. This [...]

By |2011-01-03T12:07:24-05:00January 3rd, 2011|Economy|2 Comments

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