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Originally Posted by GPK
Nice article in today's local paper. Warner was perhaps the best Gov. this commonwealth has seen, or will see, for a very long time. Too bad that the great majority of Congress is too f*cked up in the head and too indebted to special interests groups to ever support what Warner and company are trying to accomplish.
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I'll vouch for that..
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He's dealing with congressional leaders whose agendas revolve around the next election and with powerful special interests that are unwilling to surrender an inch of ground for a "grand bargain" to put the country on stable financial footing. Compromises on spending, taxes and entitlement programs are harder to come by in such a tribal setting.
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Ain't that the truth...both sides..
Side note..Liz Taylor was married to John Warner,U.S. Senator,VA '79 - '09.
On one of his campaign runs late 70's early 80's he and Liz were at one of the local banks..My wife worked downtown and got a chance to see Liz..I was jealous.. 
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