Virginia Tea Party Patriots

Top Ten Reasons Why Congress Hates the Tea Party & Patriot groups (and why you should register for the Oct. 8-9 Virginia Tea Party Patriots Convention at www.vateapartyconvention.com):
10. Most Tea Party & Patriot group supporters actually work for a living, and it’s human nature not to like people who are so very different from you.
9. [...]

Next clip: Sweet Irony. Democrats concerned about forcing some people to subsidize other people’s lifestyles.

Next clip: Obama. “Penalties are appropriate for people who try to free-ride the system and force others to pay for their health insurance…” Yes, let’s stop all subsidies, ALL subsidies, right now, and impose penalties for people who try to free-ride [...]

Virginia is blessed with ample, productive farmland; timber; mineral resources, including energy; established deepwater ports and shipbuilding; a centrally located air facility; and a populace that is hard working, fundamentally honest and leans fiscally conservative. What stands in our way?
The problem is jamming Virginians into a mold through common national legislation that dictates every [...]

Obama holds court with Felipe Calderón over a joint session of Congress and permits him to berate Arizonans and the Americans who support the law dealing with illegal aliens (and no, they’re not “undocumented workers”).

Protest tomorrow at State Capitol, Bell Tower at 11am.  We will be protesting the State Senate trying to bury our 10th Amendment bill, the Firearm Freedom Act (HB69).  This is the LAST chance to let the State Senate know you are not happy! We want our 10th Amendment bill released from Committee!
We will also join [...]

Just over three weeks ago, we watched as the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee considered SB 417 (along with its identical companions, SBs 311 and 283), the bill that provided that Virginians would not be required to purchase health insurance. During the debate, several senators had concerns dealing with judicial disputes, especially divorce cases where [...]

When I saw the vote on HB 69 yesterday, 70-29, I thought, “Great! Nine Dems joined the 59 Rs and 2 Independents to pass this bill. Boy was I wrong!
Open up your Web browser and put these two URLs in two tabs:
- the vote: http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?101+vot+HV0784+HB0069
- the delegates: http://dela.state.va.us/dela/MemBios.nsf/MWebsiteTL?OpenView
As you will see, these five supposedly Republican [...]