Day: April 25, 2013

Democracy for America has moved in to Northern Virginia and will be spotting a few house of delegate races.  DFA was founded by  by Howard Dean.

Washingtonpost.com:

The group also released the results of surveys from Public Policy Polling, a firm that uses automated dialing rather than live telephone interviews, showing that many residents of the three Northern Virginia districts have negative views of the tea party movement and of Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II, the Republican nominee for governor.

The endorsements are part of DFA’s Purple to Blue project, which seeks to win swing legislative seats in states around the country. The group says it will target two more districts in Virginia and will “spend well over $750,000” on the five Virginia races.

One of those races will impact Prince William County as John Bell challenges Del. David Ramadan.

The Republicans who are being challenged seem up for fight and some campaign managers even tried to denigrate Howard dean which makes no sense at all.   It should come as no shock that many in Northern Virginia have disdain for Ken Cuccinelli and the teaparty.

That didn’t take long. All of a sudden the Boston bombings have taken a political turn. Who knew what and when. I can see from here that there is a big bulls eye being painted on Janet Napolitano.

Should we retrace the steps taken with these young jihadists wannabes? Absolutely. Any time there is a terrorist attack, successful or unsuccessful, we should look at what went down and what can we learn to prevent similar future events from happening. We should look to see if we need new laws or if our old ones need tweaking.

However, this isn’t the time for the blame-game and turning the situation into a political gotcha. A week or so ago we were one nation standing in full support of the people of Boston. Let’s at least try to keep that spirit for a month and let’s avoid the finger pointing.

I have seen and heard some Republicans licking their lips and whiskers already, in anticipation.