GOP VA Gov raises taxes, rebuilds state infrastructure, GOP angry

[rdean]

Now, by pushing through a bipartisan transportation law – the first major compromise in decades – McDonnell has cemented his legacy as the governor who tackled Virginia’s legendarily grisly traffic problem.

McDonnell took a victory lap at the National Governors Association meeting in Washington Sunday morning, and shrugged at criticism from the right that the law represented a tax increase. He defended his landmark law as “a conservative approach” that he hopes will allow his successor to take on Virginia’s other problems now that the state’s transportation “crisis” has been averted.

Without new revenue, Virginia would have been unable to support new transportation projects and earn federal matches after 2017.

The Wall Street Journal was perhaps more scathing on Monday, with the conservative editorial page blasting: “Republicans can erase Mr. McDonnell’s name as a national candidate or VP choice in 2016.”
McDonnell was unmoved, recalling that President Ronald Reagan too faced a tough decision on infrastructure 30 years ago: Either more than double the federal gas tax or watch an Interstate Highway System – envied the world over – crumble as soon as it was built.

Transportation law a big win for Bob McDonnell

Yep, this is the SAME guy who made April "Confederate History Month" and is known as "Gov Ultrasound" the guy who wants to stick wands into women's......well, you know.

No matter how much good he is trying to do, his stand on race and "wand insertion" will sink his chances.

But what happens to Republican ideology when GOP Governors want to "invest" in the country. A major NO-NO in this Republican Party.

 

[TheOldSchool]

McDonnell is a bastard. Any progress on traffic in my state has been a result of mostly democrats and moderate republicans in the state senate and was started years ago. After Governor Gilmore destroyed our budget he was succeeded by our two senators Warner and Kaine. McDonnell is simply avoiding political suicide here. Traffic, funnily enough, is probably the top political issue in this state. With everything else the state is pretty much on autopilot these days.

 

[rdean]

McDonnell is a bastard. Any progress on traffic in my state has been a result of mostly democrats and moderate republicans in the state senate and was started years ago. After Governor Gilmore destroyed our budget he was succeeded by our two senators Warner and Kaine. McDonnell is simply avoiding political suicide here. Traffic, funnily enough, is probably the top political issue in this state. With everything else the state is pretty much on autopilot these days.

The black woman that owns BET felt betrayed when he declared "Confederate Month" even before being sworn in. She had been his biggest supporter.