Joe Manchin is looking for the right time to bolt. I suspect it will happen the first time Obama veto’s a pro-energy/pro-West Virginia Bill.
Of course, and it has been over for a while. What’s worse for dems, their last few coal advocates were thinned out on Tuesday as blue dogs got strangled.
I really think Manchin is going for the WV governorship (either as a Dem or Repub), which means we are going to have an open senate seat that is a lock for the general.
Might want to start considering nominees. I think it’s a little soon for Freshman Tea Partier Mooney to go for it, and I don’t want to see him lose his house seat for nothing.
Are there any solid state senators? WV needs a Cruz style advocate, and I’m afraid Capito ain’t it.
WOW .... Now, that’s a lot of RED ....
Point of historic trivia to note.
West Virginia, surprisingly to the pundits, went for George W. Bush in 2000. And though West Virginia has so few electoral votes, they were enough to put Bush over the top after the circus recount in Florida was over.
If West Virginia had gone Democrat in 2000 as so many expected, what happened in Florida would not have mattered, and Al Gore would have been elected president.
Just a note that at least since 2000, this Republican trend in West Virginia has been building up.
My thinking is that the people of West Virginia, though many of them are poor by national standards, and thus “should be” Democrats, have felt increasingly alienated from the liberal in your face politics of the national Democrats. And don’t want to be associated with that any longer.
And, realize that a vote for a Democrat House member is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker, and a vote for a Democrat Senate candidate is a vote for Harry Reid.
Now could this also potentially mean the end of United Mineworkers? The past head of UMW is an outright Marxist and also likely has blood on his hands.
Now could this also potentially mean the end of United Mineworkers? The past head of UMW is an outright Marxist and also likely has blood on his hands.
I wonder how much money the UMWA union tossed into the money pit of dem candidates...
Nah the War on Coal will never be over as long as the EPA exists.
The one key thing Democrat Governor Hickelooper did here in Colorado that earned him reelection was, as governor, take the fracking issue off the table.
That enraged the Left beyond anything else he’s done, but it saved his political life.
It was an absolute sin what was done to the coal miners! Many of them lost their jobs, because of climate change lies. Our very own government persecuted these workers. We should all be ashamed. Here’s hoping they can get their incomes back.
IF the country survives two more years of Obama.
And
IF the republican senate and congress govern like patriots and adults instead of keeping their snouts in the pork trough and stuffing the pockets of their friends and themselves.
And
IF the country doesn’t vote stupidly again in 2016 and elect another communist as president.
Then it could turn out that Barack Obama’s real legacy will be as the man who, thjrough his own excesses and incompetence, brought the democrat party to its knees, killed the liberal big government tidal wave that has been smothering America for the last 50 years, and put America back on the path to becoming a Conmstitutional Republic,
They never should have supported Democrats to begin with.
Somehow, every time I see Alison Lundergan Grimes I think of the runaway bride.
And if they want to keep the Greens from eating away at their strongholds like Boston and San Francisco, they have to keep killing those same industries.
Sucks to be them... :)
Now that is some gerrymandering, folks. Counties in the very center of Pennsylania with no towns over 10,000, where schools close three different times in the school year for hunting, are in the same Congressional district as half of the Pennsylvania counties that border New Jersey and New York and are just a ferry ride from Manhattan Island itself.
Unions represent RAT politicians not workers. Are people finally figuring that out?
If we stay energized between election cycles, we may be able to continue the rend. If we go back to lots of talk and no activism, we may give the seats gained back to the dark side. Up to us...