Munchkin was first elected to the US Senate in 2010, to replace the late Bobby "Kleagle" Byrd. He spent two years doing more or less nothing, then got re-elected in 2012. Prior to the US Senate, he was Governor of WV, an office he held with bland indistinction. As to whom he has fooled: among others, the National Rifle Association twice gave him an "A" rating and a glowing endorsement. Following the shootings in Sandy Hook, he stabbed the NRA in the back.
His voting record has been pure 0bammunist.
If you're planning to point fingers, be sure to point some at national organizations like the NRA, which endorsed him and at the WV Republican Party, which twice ran the very nice, very conservative, very lethargic John Raese against him. WV GOP is utterly ineffective.
I'm not singling West Virginia out. America elected an obvious con-man, Obama, twice. Politicians spew their lies - they are backed by the Media and/or other lobbyist Groups - and We the People, return them to office. Until that changes we will continue to fall deeper, and deeper into the quicksand. It is too late for States like California - the lies have been ingrained as truth, and the dependency on Government largess or handouts has grown beyond the critical mass point that it is doubtful it will be turned back until the system collapses upon itself.
I'm just hoping that the other States can stop swallowing the lies and help right the National Ship of State.