Your ignorance (feigned or not) is breathtaking.

And all of those things were fought for and implemented by conservatives so yes, I’d call those “conservative policies”.

I understand. I’d be pretty embarrassed, too. All these years of hard work and big talk only to find out that conservative policies have done more to damage this country than any outside threat ever could. Yeah, I’d even feel a little stupid, at this point (see, e.g., the post above me).

Yeah, that worked.

Conservatives in control of everything? Ever hear of the Senate? Would massive spending increases, greater federal oversight of education, a new entitlement program and interventionist foreign policy be the conservative policies you’re talking about?

We had a Republican President, House, and Senate, and what did we get? Interference in the STATE schools, vast expansion of Medicare, and more spending.

THAT’S why the Republicans lost in 2006 — they stopped acting like Republicans.

Hilarious. That’s kind of like saying the USSR failed because they stopped acting like Communists. Nope, conservatives gained control of everything, and then used that chance to show what a spectacular failure conservative policies are.

If any of those legislators, especially Colgan, really wanted to decrease the number of abortions, they would support Planned Parenthoods, whose main message is PREVENTION and EDUCATION!

I’m sad, but not surprised. There are three other anti-choice bills being heard this morning in committee.

We had a Republican President, House, and Senate, and what did we get? Interference in the STATE schools, vast expansion of Medicare, and more spending.

THAT’S why the Republicans lost in 2006 — they stopped acting like Republicans.

Maybe the Libertarians are right, and we should just call them all RepublicRATS.

I do disagree with him on this because Planned Parenthood does a whole lot of good things for the Commonwealth that have nothing to do with abortions–like *preventing* unplanned pregnancies so we have *fewer* of them. I wish Saslaw had tried to broker some middle ground between the rest of the Dem caucus and Colgan to see what we could do about supporting those endeavors without funding the things Colgan finds distasteful.

But on the subject on the non-functioning majority, this might give you an idea of how the GOP has felt about Chichester and what’s his name in Winchester…

In 2007 Kaine urged him to run again to help get a democrat majority.

OK, but if the D majority doesn’t act like one, what good does it do? Yes, the Ds get the committee chairs, which theoretically allows the Ds to set the agenda. But it hasn’t worked so well, has it?

If you want to blame someone, look to Warner and Kaine. By numerous accounts I have heard Colgan was ready to step down in 2003, but Warner convinced him to run again. In 2007 Kaine urged him to run again to help get a democrat majority.