VA republicans will retake control of the VA senate

[Frodo]

Probably bound to happen sooner or later, but there's a bigger worry.  Democrats had better hope and pray that no scandals from the McAuliffe administration come to light between now and November 2015, or else we will see Republicans with a bigger majority in the state Senate, and (likely) in complete control of the redistricting process by the 2020 census.  

[Frodo]

There is some rumblings that McAuliffe might push through Medicare expansion with an executive order:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/with-no-legislative-approval-mcauliffe-has-begun-planning-for-medicaid-expansion/2014/06/04/2a7a8b4c-ea77-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html

He will probably do that. If he does that, it would be great!

That would be ill-advised, considering the precedent set could easily be used by a Republican governor to push his own agenda.   And as someone who lives in this state, and therefore has to live with the consequences, I could do without. 

[Frodo]

There is some rumblings that McAuliffe might push through Medicare expansion with an executive order:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/with-no-legislative-approval-mcauliffe-has-begun-planning-for-medicaid-expansion/2014/06/04/2a7a8b4c-ea77-11e3-9f5c-9075d5508f0a_story.html

He will probably do that. If he does that, it would be great!

That would be ill-advised, considering the precedent set could easily be used by a Republican governor to push his own agenda.   And as someone who lives in this state, and therefore has to live with the consequences, I could do without. 

This is pretty much the same argument used against abolishing the filibuster, but we all know that if Democrats were a minority and obstructed as much as the Republicans did, they'd get rid of it in a second.

Virginia politics is very different from the rough-and-tumble of the Beltway.  And  I would like to keep it that way.