Sunday Update

I hope everyone remembered to set their clocks back 1 hour. Anyway, the reason this update is so late is because I had to work this morning.

Ernie Fletcher should take a note from John Cornyn.

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said it was premature to discuss a presidential pardon because no one has been convicted in the investigation.

"People who actually were trying to use this, of course, to the president's political disadvantage, I think, are going to be disappointed by the fact that this appears to be limited to a single individual," Cornyn said.

Senator Harry Reid has called on the president and the vice president to apologize to the American people. They should apologize. What they did was wrong and they should be ashamed of themselves with what they did.

The home paper of Jerry Kilgore's birthplace in Scott County is endorsing Lt. Governor Tim Kaine for Governor. Yep, the Bristol Herald Courier has endorsed a Democrat to suceed Governor Mark Warner.

The best candidate for the office, Gov. Mark Warner, is prohibited by an arcane state law from running again. Warner’s accomplishments are well known. He inherited a state in fiscal crisis, but turned the state around with the help of a bipartisan group of state lawmakers. The resulting budget reforms included modest increases in the sales and cigarette taxes, along with a grocery tax cut and elimination of the marriage tax penalty. The move kept the state from losing its AAA bond rating and led to its recognition as one of the best-governed in the nation.

Kaine is the best man to keep the state moving along that same sensible, centrist path. Kilgore opposed the unpleasant, but necessary, tax increases.

The Washington Post has an update on the DNC commission to change the primary calendar.

It's nice to be mentioned in the paper but even referring to me is great, too (and some friends of mine were referred to). Pat Crowley writes, again, about the state party fundraiser last weekend. The state party raised $150,000, which isn't bad at all.

While I won't be liveblogging on Tuesday when Senator John Edwards is up here, I will most definitely be posting a recap about it.