Congressman Bob Goodlatte addressed the Shenandoah County Republicans and guests Friday night from the Yellow Barn in Mt. Jackson. Seated at the table were Lt. Gov. and Mrs. Bill Bolling.
The Congressman talked with constituents after dinner.
Bob Goodlatte and Christy Huffman. Christy interned in his Washington office while in college.
Trixie AverillFor a head of government to visit the White House and not pose for photographers is rare. For a key ally to be left to his own devices while the President withdraws to have dinner in private was, until this week, unheard of. Yet that is how Benjamin Netanyahu was treated by President Obama on Tuesday night, according to Israeli reports on a trip viewed in Jerusalem as a humiliation.Not only was he snubbed, but the fear of tapped phone lines caused Mr. Netanyahu to leave the White House for communication purposes, according to the Times of London:
After failing to extract a written promise of concessions on settlements, Obama walked out of his meeting with Netanyahu but invited him to stay at the White House, consult with advisers and “let me know if there is anything new”, a U.S. congressman, who spoke to the Prime Minister, said.
With the atmosphere so soured by the end of the evening, the Israelis decided that they could not trust the telephone line they had been lent for their consultations. Mr Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, his Defence Minister, went to the Israeli Embassy to ensure that the Americans were not listening in.This incident should be protested by Republican representatives because Barack Obama is endangering American national security by snubbing key allies while snuggling up to our enemies.
The gate is open on the Blue Ridge Parkway at Afton. Months of snowy weather kept the roadway covered during the winter of 2009-10.
The Blue Ridge Parkway passes through Augusta and Nelson Counties.
After a winter that saw six-foot drifts, only a few patches of snow remained this week.
Humpback Rock looms over the winter landscape.
Late March found hikers on Humpback.
Serenity....
The winter woods....
Winter cleanup continues. This sign overlooking the Rockfish Valley is out for repair.
Yellow pansies in the median of Rt. 340 in Waynesboro.
From the Republican National Committee -- 70th birthday greetings to Nancy Pelosi....
Augusta County Republican Women's Club“What an exercise in hypocrisy. Some of you in the left-wing so-called ‘news’ media have actively participated in insulting conservatives with vulgar ‘tea bagging’ jokes. You’ve done it on live national television, snickering at your own snarky gay sense of humor. And if you haven’t done that, you have been a coward, doing nothing to condemn your colleagues for their disgusting behavior. Don’t you dare give us any more lectures on civility. You hypocrites disgust me.” --Brent Bozell (Media Research Center)Amen.
A caller to Rush Limbaugh's conservative talk radio show on Tuesday, talking about health care, nailed it when she said of Barack Obama:"He's a schoolyard bully and he's got a posse in the Congress and the House and no one else is supposed to touch this golden boy that America seems to be so enamored with, and I am fed up with it."She went on to add:
"His inexperience is so obvious -- and we're suffering for it! Because liberal America... I'll just say liberal and moderate white America, was so afraid to be called racist that they allow this nation to have the most inexperienced person ever take the highest office in the land at a time when we can least afford to have someone so incompetent at the head of our government."As she and Rush talked back and forth, the caller reiterated the inexperience of this president:
"We're at the brink of losing what we know as America.I missed much of Rush's show on Tuesday but a friend called this morning to alert me of this caller. Checking my Rush 24/7, I found it along with another excerpt that another firend alerted me to last night.
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"We have been awakened. The tea party movement and the conservative movement have been awakened. This is not fun and games; this is not a reality show. This is real life, and we have got to take this country back to where it's supposed to be: Personal responsibility, limited government, letting a man work for and keep what he earns. That has to be the model that we put forward."
The passage of the Health Care Bill continues to dig the American public deeper into a financial hole. No matter how it is characterized, this is a vast new entitlement program, with no limits on the cost to the taxpayers of the future. Today our economic system is breaking under the weight of Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security, the entitlement society. The national debt and deficits show that we cannot go on with this welfare state. This new health bill “doubles down” on the financial problems that we must solve to restore the future of our nation.Read it all as he explains that the only way out of this financial abyss is for Americans to once again find their independent streaks and stand on their own two feet. Good read.
Tuesday's mail brought the postcard to remind me to fill out the census form.I'm thinking of the millions and millions of dollars spent on postage for an "it's on its way" letter, the census itself, and then a "you did get it, right?" reminder.
Which arrived last week.
Like the letter the week before said it would.
Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!The entire speech can be found here.
