Dems to Clinton: Don’t Say Anything to Hurt Us
ABCNews

Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., pressed her campaign ahead of Tuesday’s West Virginia primary as Democratic Party leaders warned her not to do or say anything that could hurt Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., in November.

Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn, an Obama supporter, compared Clinton to the Glenn Close character in “Fatal Attraction” — a spurned woman turned stalker who was apparently drowned in a bathtub only to jump up one more time to be shot dead.

Cute, but we said it first.

I was dealing with family business over the weekend and missed this one:

Now what am I going to do with that box of flag lapel pins? Since Barack Obama has added seven states…well actually if you listen closely he’s added 10 states. He says he’s visited 57 before Oregon and he has one more to visit. But then he notes he hasn’t been to Alaska and Hawaii. But let’s just deal with the fact that he said he’d visited 57 states.

Fortunately for us all the folks over at Suitably Flip are offering the Official “Obama 57″ pin with stars for all 57 states.

Everybody makes gaffes. But knowing there are 50 states is pre-school.

George W. Bush was given untold grief for not knowing the names of obscure foreign leaders. So Obama’s lack of knowledge about his own country is fair game.

We have to wonder how many more states he’ll have to add to make Michelle proud of her country again.

I don’t think the folks who posted the add on Craigslist were really looking for this person:  Sexual Assault Coordinator.

I know what they mean, but I’d still come up with a different title.

Kaine seeks tax increases for roads
The Richmond Times-Dispatch

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine at this hour is rolling out yet another tax-fattened plan to repair Virginia’s cash-starved transportation system.

At a news conference at the Patrick Henry Building, Kaine is outlining his proposal to generate more than $1 billion a year for roads and rail by mid-2011.

Kaine readies road tax details
The Washington Times

Mr. Kaine, a Democrat, wants regional funding plans to pay for new projects in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia, the state’s most populous, fastest-growing and traffic-choked regions.

A notion rejected soundly by the regions’ voters when Kaine was Lt. Governor.

Reactions around the blogosphere:

Kaine: Raise sales tax, grantor’s tax, car taxes
Brian Kirwin at Bearing Drift

Leave it to a liberal to push a house tax in the middle of a housing crisis and push regional sales taxes that lost two referendums by a 2 to 1 margin. But that’s Gov. Tim Kaine’s plan. And guess what? The “house tax” won’t even go for roads.

So, Tim Kaine who ran on “no tax increases until we protect the no-Trust fund” and who ran against “regional tax plans” proposes both, with the absolutely laughable thought that we should raise the “house tax” during a housing crisis to pay for buses.

Tim Kaine’s transportation plan gets leaked - and it stinks
The right-wing liberal

Next up is the regional sales tax. Lest anyone forget (and Kaine shouldn’t - he was Lieutenant Governor at the time), the people of these regions had the option of raising this tax on themselves in a 2002 referendum. As one can see here, the voters in Northern Virginia rejected it by nearly 10 points, and in Hampton Roads, the margin of defeat for the tax hike was more than 20 points. Six years later, the Governor is basically telling these voters to drop dead.

Attorney General Bob McDonnell on Kaine’s stink bomb
Scott’s Morning Brew

The AG says: The Governor did not make his transportation plan available to Republicans until today so I am still reviewing the details. However, it is disappointing that the Governor’s third transportation plan since taking office is basically the same as his first two. Through all the conversations, negotiations, and debate of the past several years, the Governor has continued to rely on his belief in higher taxes with increased spending, going to the same government bureaucracies that have not delivered transportation services efficiently.

Also at Scott’s Morning Brew: “Don’t pick on me” Says Timmy Kaine

Apparently Governor Tim Kaine even knows how preposterous his plan to raise taxes is. He’s even asked members of his own party to not pick on him…

Clucking for Transportation Taxes
Virginia Virtucon

Well, I would like to invite any and all readers of this blog to take a few minutes and put in a call to the folks over at the GAB in charge of the budget. They will tell you exactly what they told me: the so-called shortfall in transportation funding is only a real and true shortfall if you take 2007’s slumping economy and tax revenue and estimate it to be the same for every year over the next 6 years.

Also at Virginia Virtucon: LG Bolling Speaks Out On Timmy!’s Transportation Plan

The LG says: While there is never a good time to raise taxes, I am also concerned by the fact that the Governor and Democrats in the General Assembly want to raise taxes by over one billion dollars at a time when economic growth is slowing, fuel and food costs are skyrocketing, and working Virginians are having a harder time making ends meet. Increasing taxes now will unnecessarily hurt the economy and kill needed jobs. In addition, Governor Kaine’s tax increase plan is regressive and will hurt those least able to pay the most, including senior citizens on a fixed income and young families.

Gospel singer Dottie Rambo dies in tour bus wreck in Mo.
AP via Yahoo

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. - Joyce “Dottie” Rambo, an influential gospel singer and songwriter, died early Sunday when her tour bus ran off the highway and struck an embankment. She was 74.

…Rambo has had more than 2,500 published songs, including gospel classics such as “He Looked Beyond My Fault and Saw My Need” and the 1982 Gospel Music Association Song of the Year, “We Shall Behold Him.”

Still funny two years later…

See previous story.

Suspect in Giles County shootings dies in Pulaski County
The Roanoke Times

Randall Lee Smith was pronounced dead at a Pulaski County hospital shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday, said Lt. Ron Hamlin of the Giles County Sheriff’s Department.

Smith was injured in the crash and was hospitalized in Roanoke after being taken into custody as a suspect in the shootings. Doctors placed him on a ventilator until sometime Thursday.

Dear Lord, thank you for the  opponents you have provided for me
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Just wanted to hear this tonight…