Well whaddya know? Howard Dean was right.

I know, big surprise. But remember when Dean said if you want to trust government with your money you need to elect Democrats?

Our Democrat governor Mark Warner was vindicated today when Virginia retained its triple-A bond rating.

Kudos to Warner and the Republican House members who broke ranks to vote with him. Warner's performance combined with former governor Jim Gilmore's fiscal incompetence has caused a lot of Repubs here to reconsider voting for Bush and his overly partisan supporters like Virgil Goode.