NRCC Spokesman Blames Perriello for Threats

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 9:16 AM PDT

2010/03/25 · 09:16

This has gone too far. I am livid as a write this. The Republican Congress has used the most incendiary rhetoric imaginable leading up to and after the health care vote. They have called members of Congress "Dead Men" for their vote, they have encouraged violence, they have threatened armageddon. Now, their language is causing terror.

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Thursday August 13, 2009 · 12:24 PM PDT

2009/08/13 · 12:24

As has been well documented here, Investors Business Daily wrote a ridiculous editorial last week against health care reform including this golden paragraph:

People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.

This laughably horrible example destroyed their entire editorial which attempted to prove to its readers that Death Panels are real and eugenics are on the horizon.

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Friday July 03, 2009 · 9:50 AM PDT

2009/07/03 · 09:50

This is not a diary about the loss of political discourse in this country. This is not a diary about absurdity of Republican talking points. This is not a diary about people who use Liberty and Fascist as talking points without knowing what they mean.

This is a diary about my friend.

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Tuesday April 21, 2009 · 1:21 PM PDT

2009/04/21 · 13:21

Virgil Goode, who was defeated in his reelection bid in 2008 by Democrat Tom Perriello, has kept himself busy after his forced retirement. He has appeared at Tea Parties in Martinsville and in Lynchburg. He's also speaking at the national committee meeting for the Constitution Party.

However, recently Goode has moved beyond the anti-tax, anti-Obama crowd into the truly hate-wing portion of the Party. Read More

VA-05 Virgil Goode's Blatant Hypocrisy

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Wednesday September 17, 2008 · 12:11 PM PDT

2008/09/17 · 12:11

Rep. Virgil Goode again showed blatant hypocrisy as he voted against a comprehensive energy bill that allowed for increased drilling and provided incentives for alternatives. The Comprehensive American Energy Security & Consumer Protection Act (H.R. 6899) passed the House but Rep. Goode voted against it.

During the August recess, Congressional Republicans screamed for Congressional action to increase drilling opportunities. Goode has championed the drilling cause and promised his constituents that he would work to support alternative energies and increase oil production.

In his own newsletter, Goode News, Rep. Goode wrote,

Last week, I returned to Washington to join my Republican colleagues in our on-going effort to impress upon the leadership of the House of Representatives that the American public deserves an up-or-down vote on allowing drilling for oil and natural gas on American soil and on the Outer Continental Shelf, so that we may produce more of our own energy needs and break our dependence on foreign oil.

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Tuesday September 02, 2008 · 11:42 AM PDT

2008/09/02 · 11:42

Everyone knows that current gas prices are punishing working families in Central and Southside Virginia (just like the rest of the country. Here in Virginia's 5th District, our Congressman Virgil H. Goode Jr. has adopted the Drill Here Drill Now rhetoric and shown a remarkable ability to pivot any question to the benefits of drilling.

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Saturday June 28, 2008 · 10:21 AM PDT

2008/06/28 · 10:21

Tom Perriello, the Democratic Nominee for the Fifth District of Virginia, will be liveblogging at Firedoglake from 2pm EST to 4pm EST. Perriello is challenging Virgil Goode, the Republican incumbent.

Perriello, 33, is a national security consultant who has worked in Afghanistan, Darfur, and helping peacefully depose the dictator Charles Taylor. He has founded progressive faith-based organizations like Faithful America and Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and also co-founded Avaaz.org, the online humanitarian and social action fund with over 3.3 million members worldwide.

Virgil Goode is somewhat infamous for his remarks about Keith Ellison and has recently been found to be repeating the lies about China drilling off the coast of Florida. He is also part of the Tom Tancredo wing of the Republican Party.

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Friday June 27, 2008 · 1:02 PM PDT

2008/06/27 · 13:02

Whoever writes the Republican talking points needs to either fact-check better, or improve their redaction process, because this is getting ridiculous. The bogus claim that China is drilling 50 miles off the coast of Florida has been thoroughly refuted. Republican Sen. Mel Martinez said on the floor of the Senate

China is not drilling off the coast of Cuba. Reports to the contrary are simply false. They are akin to urban legends. China drilling off the coast of Cuba only 60 miles from the Keys, that is not taking place...any talk of using some fabricated Cuba-China connection as an argument to change U.S. policy has no merit.

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Friday June 20, 2008 · 10:01 AM PDT

2008/06/20 · 10:01

Tom Perriello, the Democratic nominee for Virginia's 5th Congressional District and recently named as one of 20 emerging races by the DCCC in its Red to Blue program, is an expert on national security and has devoted his life to making the world safer around him.

He released the following statement on the recent "compromise" by the Democratic leadership and Republicans on FISA:

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Wednesday May 21, 2008 · 7:57 PM PDT

2008/05/21 · 19:57

I love hard work. It's our promise in that great agreement that is the American Dream. But too often I feel like our politicians are coasting while we're trying to make ends meet. Remember when Jack Kingston complained after the 2006 election that the new Democrat controlled House was going to have a 5 day work week which would "make Congressional marriages suffer"?

I'm tired of Republicans (and Congress in general) appearing to be on vacation more often than President Bush. That's why watching Tom Perriello accept the Democratic nomination in the Virginia 5th was so exciting. I've found someone who is committed to working long hours to actually serve the people he represents!

JohnCos

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Friday March 14, 2008 · 1:50 PM PDT

2008/03/14 · 13:50

Tom Perriellois the progressive Democrat fighting for the people of the Virginia 5th. He is running against Virgil Goode who is not bringing jobs to Southside, embarrassing his district with racist comments, and now not standing up for his constituents constitutional rights.

This is Tom Perriello's statement on FISA

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Wednesday March 12, 2008 · 6:21 PM PDT

2008/03/12 · 18:21

With the wonderful news that the good people of the Indiana Seventh have elected Andre Carson to fill his late grandmother’s term, making him the second Muslim ever to serve in Congress. I wrote about the first Muslim elected to Congress, Keith Ellison, in the journal Religion in the News. I think that it is time to review how far we have come in our acceptance of Muslims in public life.

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