Norman over at OMT offers comments on Senator Norment’s temper tantrum on the Senate floor over Lt. Governor Bill Bolling’s support of the House budget.
Norment’s outburst may indicate that the cracks in the Senate’s facade are deeper than I thought. If Norment and his pro-tax colleagues were winning the argument, I doubt whether he would have made notice of the Bolling op-ed at all, let alone wag his finger at the LTG from the Senate floor.
There is also the rather amusing conceit in this exchange that because the Senate has decided something, Bolling has no right to say a word in opposition. Like a good house elf, Bolling should simply smile politely, say his lines and get off the stage. I find it refreshing — and essential — that he remains an advocate for his positions.
Here’s hoping he does even more in the future.
Bolling is carrying the standard of the Virginia Republican Party, without question. I’d like to say this was a voice missing in 2004, but that wouldn’t be true. Bolling was saying the same things in 2004 before he was running for the seat he currently holds.
Bolling is the leadership we need in Virginia.