SkinsHokieFan
February-11th-2010, 11:38 AM
This is again why VA is a pretty good state. We have smart Dems here also :ols:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/dem_saying_no_538OoUUq1p2rwjDF0usyXM
A Dem saying 'No'
By JOHN J. MILLER
Last Updated: 8:46 AM, February 11, 2010
Posted: 1:06 AM, February 11, 2010
Sen. James Webb wrote six novels before he tried his hand at nonfiction. His 2004 history of the Scots-Irish in America owns a memorable name: "Born Fighting."
The Virginia Democrat might have saved the title for his memoirs: The man who once battled his way through the jungles of Vietnam has become an influential political warrior in Washington, to the sudden consternation of President Obama.
In recent weeks, Webb has fought the White House on several policy fronts, from deployments in Afghanistan to the prosecution of terrorists.
Webb was arguably the first Democratic senator to come to grips with his party's disastrous defeat in Massachusetts. On the night that Massachusetts voters elected Republican Scott Brown as the late Ted Kennedy's successor, Webb urged the suspension of health-care votes until Brown joins the Senate. If the Obama administration had entertained any thoughts of rushing its "reform" through Congress before Brown's arrival, Webb effectively snuffed them out.
He arguably did the White House a big favor, as the public almost certainly wouldn't have tolerated such a desperate maneuver. Yet Webb was probably more concerned about his own political future.
On Dec. 24, he had voted for ObamaCare -- complete with Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's notorious Cornhusker Kickback. The stunning result in Massachusetts may have provided Webb with the wake-up call he should have heard more than two months earlier.
In November, Virginians turned out in droves to elect Bob McDonnell, a Republican, as their governor. Democrats had enjoyed a string of statewide victories, including Webb's upset in 2006 against Sen. George Allen (a Republican who had harbored presidential ambitions). But now Webb's party was confronting a serious setback.
When Webb called for a moratorium on health-care votes, he wasn't appeasing Brown's Bay State backers. He was trying to respect the mood of his own constituents.
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/dem_saying_no_538OoUUq1p2rwjDF0usyXM
A Dem saying 'No'
By JOHN J. MILLER
Last Updated: 8:46 AM, February 11, 2010
Posted: 1:06 AM, February 11, 2010
Sen. James Webb wrote six novels before he tried his hand at nonfiction. His 2004 history of the Scots-Irish in America owns a memorable name: "Born Fighting."
The Virginia Democrat might have saved the title for his memoirs: The man who once battled his way through the jungles of Vietnam has become an influential political warrior in Washington, to the sudden consternation of President Obama.
In recent weeks, Webb has fought the White House on several policy fronts, from deployments in Afghanistan to the prosecution of terrorists.
Webb was arguably the first Democratic senator to come to grips with his party's disastrous defeat in Massachusetts. On the night that Massachusetts voters elected Republican Scott Brown as the late Ted Kennedy's successor, Webb urged the suspension of health-care votes until Brown joins the Senate. If the Obama administration had entertained any thoughts of rushing its "reform" through Congress before Brown's arrival, Webb effectively snuffed them out.
He arguably did the White House a big favor, as the public almost certainly wouldn't have tolerated such a desperate maneuver. Yet Webb was probably more concerned about his own political future.
On Dec. 24, he had voted for ObamaCare -- complete with Nebraska Sen. Ben Nelson's notorious Cornhusker Kickback. The stunning result in Massachusetts may have provided Webb with the wake-up call he should have heard more than two months earlier.
In November, Virginians turned out in droves to elect Bob McDonnell, a Republican, as their governor. Democrats had enjoyed a string of statewide victories, including Webb's upset in 2006 against Sen. George Allen (a Republican who had harbored presidential ambitions). But now Webb's party was confronting a serious setback.
When Webb called for a moratorium on health-care votes, he wasn't appeasing Brown's Bay State backers. He was trying to respect the mood of his own constituents.