The Virginian-Pilot nails it today, with its editorial "Idling on transportation: McDonnell too silent on highway remedy."
Referring to the "740-word treatise [Attorney General Bob McDonnell] issued this past week detailing his objections to a road-funding plan authored by Gov. Tim Kaine," the Virginian-Pilot writes:
McDonnell's eight-paragraph statement doesn't contain a single word about his own ideas. His objections, which make it harder for GOP lawmakers to compromise with Kaine, increase chances next month's special session will fail.If this opportunity is missed, transportation will be yoked to McDonnell's gubernatorial campaign next year.
No serious candidate for governor would trash someone else's proposal for fixing the state's most pressing need unless he had a better idea in mind.
Apparently, Bob McDonnell is not a "serious candidate for governor," because that's all he's done here: trash Gov. Kaine's transportation proposal without offering any ideas of his own. Profiles in courage and great leadership, eh?