That picture says so much. Her intense, shark-like evil eyes are telling as she conceived and enacted programs to utterly shed the Constitution. It was Frances Perkins who set the table for the likes of hussein obama.
Posted on 03/13/2014 9:08:16 PM PDT by smoothsailing
March 12, 2014
A longtime House Democrat in electoral jeopardy this fall says he supported former President George W. Bush more than President Obama.
Rep. Nick Rahall (D-W.Va.), first elected in 1976, is a top target of Republicans in a state where Obama has long been deeply unpopular. He is facing a state senator, Evan Jenkins, who switched to the GOP to challenge him, and the House Democratic campaign committee recently added him to its “Frontline” list of members that need the most help saving their seat in November.
“There’s no question my critics try to blame Obama-Rahall for everything,” Rahall told The Hill. “I mean, the snow blitz that’s coming tonight is probably Obama-Rahall’s fault. And they won’t have that to do two years from now, so it’s obvious they’re leaving no stone unturned to defeat me this time. Because it’s the last time they’ll have Obama around! It’s that simple.”
Obama’s national approval rating fell to the lowest of his presidency, 41 percent, in an NBC-Wall Street Journal poll released Wednesday. In West Virginia, however, it is much lower. A Gallup study released in January found that during 2013, an average of just 25 percent of West Virginians approved of the president’s performance.
Rahall acknowledged that Obama was deeply unpopular in his district, and he quickly ticked off a half dozen policies where the two have disagreed: coal, trade, immigration, abortion, gun control and the conduct of Attorney General Eric Holder, who Rahall voted to hold in contempt. “That’s just off the top of my head,” he said.
“I will support him when he’s good for West Virginia, and I will oppose him when he’s bad for West Virginia,” Rahall said.
Asked if Obama had been good for West Virginia overall, he replied, “Probably not.”
“I probably have supported George Bush more than I have Barack Obama,” Rahall said. “Am I going to switch parties because of that? No. I’m a Democrat, born a Democrat, am a Democrat and will die a Democrat.”
Rahall spoke a day after Democrats lost a hard-fought special election race in Florida that centered on the president’s policies and the healthcare law.
He downplayed the significance of the result, saying it did not impact how he would run his race this fall.
On ObamaCare, Rahall said he has called on Republicans to work with Democrats to fix it without demanding its outright repeal.
“I don’t think I need to call for more fixes,” he said. “I think I need to call for more bipartisanship from the other side, instead of just repeal, repeal, repeal. Because that’s not going to fix anything.
“I have always said in my 38 years here I have never seen a perfect law, and the [Affordable Care Act] is not a perfect law. But it’s not going to be repealed. Not now. Not never. So let’s face reality, my friends, and let’s try to work together to fix it," Rahall added.
Jenkins on Tuesday highlighted a GOP poll showing him with a 14-point lead over Rahall, 54 percent to 40 percent. Rahall laughed it off. “My poll does not show that, I guarantee you,” he said, without specifying numbers.
He pointed to outside conservative groups that have targeted him with ads and said voters are “getting tired” of the negative commercials. Help from Democratic fund-raisers in Washington, he said, is on its way. “Because of the tactics being employed by the other side, that is coming hand over fist every day now,” Rahall said.
The National Republican Congressional Committee dismissed Rahall’s bid to distance himself from Obama, citing his support for Democratic budget proposals and the original healthcare law in 2010.
“If Nick Rahall is looking to blame someone for his problems he should look in the mirror,” NRCC spokesman Ian Prior said. “His support of Obama certainly isn’t going to help him, but its Rahall’s own record of voting against West Virginia’s economic interests that is going to sink him in November.”
That picture says so much. Her intense, shark-like evil eyes are telling as she conceived and enacted programs to utterly shed the Constitution. It was Frances Perkins who set the table for the likes of hussein obama.
Evan Jenkins switched parties to run against this guy. Is that the best we can do?
Democrats spend 8 years slamming the Hell out of Bush and get majorities in both houses and the Presidency by doing it,now they want to save their communist asses by saying they voted more with the evil Bush than Obama,PRICELESS!
Question #2 is really what opponents need to hit them with. I've not understood why they don't make this a bigger argument.
Congressman, you say you will oppose Obama when he's bad for WV. However, you will vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker...and she will set an agenda forth....Obama's agenda...that is ALWAYS bad for WV. You won't have a chance to offer ANY meaningful opposition because she will ensure your party destroys coal...and a hundred other things that are bad for WV...and you won't be able to do a thing about it. She will ensure that anything that is GOOD for WV is blocked from a vote...just like Harry Reid does in the senate.
So how do you suppose you will get around that?
Another RINO in the making.
Purely an election year stunt. You can’t be a rat without believing in and endorsing evil. Repubs have a slight advantage there.
Great minds and all.
"Will you vote for John Boehner for Speaker of the House?"
This will separate the men from the metrosexuals.
Here, son. This albatross named 0bamacare is really starting to stink and it’s going to hang around your neck until it rots away or you do.
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