Terry McAuliffe, the political bagman who rented out the Lincoln Bedroom while Bill Clinton was in office, wants to be governor of Virginia -- in the worst way. As McAuliffe wrote in his autobiography, governors "have all kinds of business to hand out, road contracts, construction jobs, you name it."  The governorship would be McAuliffe's favor factory, paving the way for Hillary Clinton's run in 2016. At Hillary Clinton's "swanky northwest [Washington] D.C. home" on the eve of the government shutdown, she was busy raising money for McAuliffe. Bill Clinton got into the act sending his own fundraising email for McAuliffe on the eve of the government shutdown saying, "Virginia's next governor gets to decide whether the Commonwealth accepts Medicaid expansion." Welcome back, era of big government. Now McAuliffe is taking a page out of the Obama playbook, falsely criticizing his Republican opponent Ken Cuccinelli about the federal government shutdown, and resorting to the...(Read Full Post)