Exhuming McCarthy

(part one in a possible series)

A couple of months ago, Paradox13 berated me for saying something rotten about myself. “No one talks to my friends that way,” he said.

This link made me think of him.

From HuffPo (with a hat tip to Miles Grant on Twitter):

The federal judge set to issue one of the first decisions on the Obama administration’s health care law has financial ties to both the attorney general who is challenging the law and to a powerhouse conservative law firm whose clients include prominent Republican officials and critics of reform.

Why am I not surprised? If the tables were turned, the right-wingers would be screaming bloody murder.

Posted by liz because Daverunner is having problems posting.

AASA President Apporinted to National PTA Board

Cheap shot, I know. But really people, Spell Check would have gotten that one for you.

I’m happy so many local bloggers got interviewed for it! And doubly happy that I found a new blog through it: Life in Loudoun County. The more voices blogging about local issues, the better, in my opinion.

Links to the blogs mentioned in the article are after the jump.Too Conservative

The True Adventures of the Doorbell Queen

Equality Loudoun

In Through the Out Door

Leesburg Tomorrow

Suburban Fizz

Hooda Thunk

Nova Town Hall

Living in Loco

The Casey Group

and Life in Loudoun County

I’ve been interviewed twice recently for two different things. One is a book about campaigning, the other is an article about blogging.

I’m not gonna lie to you, Marge*, I love talking about the stuff I love to do.

I love campaigning. I love blogging. I love blogging about campaigning. I would love to campaign about blogging, if that were even possible.

I hope that you, too, are getting to talk about the things you love to do.*H/T to Wil Wheaton.

C/P on www.Doorbellqueen.blogspot.com

Joe.My.God talks about The Man in the Orange Hat’s latest fundraising letter.

TMitOH, by the way, said from the dais last week that he was afraid of nothing. Sure doesn’t look like it when you read his screeds.

I know there are a lot of divisions about this one. But I’m really glad that this vote is over.

I understand where people are coming from on not wanting residential in that area. I also understand where others are coming from in saying that this is a good mixed development, that the road and other transportation proffers are really needed.

Me? I’m happy about the shuttle. I like buses.

So? What’s your opinion of the Kincora application? Remember our guidelines: No personal attacks, no belittling language. Keep it to the application itself, please.

So it turns out that in the flurry of motions on the CTP, Supervisor Sally Kurtz (D Catoctin), made an error and voted to set Belmont Ridge Road to six lanes instead of four (currently Belmont Ridge Road is two lanes most of the way).

She’d like to hold a hearing to reconsider that vote on Wednesday (she was in the majority on that vote, along with Supervisors York, Buckley, Delgaudio, and Waters), but it turns out that Supervisors York and Buckley will be out of town. Which has made at least one supervisor unhappy about how it will look if they vote to reconsider while part of the majority of the original vote is out of town.

But here’s the thing: It was a 5 – 4 vote. If Supervisor Kurtz is unhappy with her vote then if the vote is reconsidered, it will go 5 – 4 the other way. Right?

If two of the people in the new minority are not there, then it will go 5-2-2. Right?

If Supervisors York and Buckley know that the vote will take place while they are not there, they can leave written statements to be read into the record during discussion of the issue.

In any case, when State Delegates accidentally push the wrong button during a vote, they can file a paper to correct it. I believe this is essentially what happened with Supervisor Kurtz and I hope that the rest of the supervisors will let her reconsider her vote.

Seriously. Read it.