He sounds preferable to many Republicans, frankly. I gather he won't be herded by the likes of Pelosi, Reid or Obama. Good stuff. The GOP has pissed me off so mightily over the past two decades that I really have no built-in preference for a party label any more. I'd take a Zell Miller over a Lindsay Graham just about any time. This guy Oliverio sounds pretty good. May his tribe increase among the Dems. Moral Equivalence talk between GOP and dems ignores this reality.
Oliverio MUST be asked who he intends to support as Speaker. Even people like Heath Shuler voted for Pelosi. If Pelosi is Speaker she still sets the agenda. If he can't say or supports Pelosi he must be voted down.
The big question is whether the voters in WV will realize that a D vote is a vote for Pelosi and Reid - both of whom have ratings in the sewers right now.
The only way the democratic party can be impacted from within is when the communists in their midst are so toxic to election bids that the people running for office will promise to vote AGAINST the Pelosis and Reids as their Congressional leaders, if for no other reason than to keep Reid or Pelosi from campaigning for them.
Of course, they’d have to follow through on their promise for it to work.
I think in elections like this one, the image of Ben Nelson and the Cornhusker Kickback should be drilled into the consciousness of every voter - along with the promises for transparency coupled with closed-door meetings, locks changed in stealth, Republicans locked out, Christmas Eve votes, etc.
We need to tie San Fran Nan and Death-Warmed-Over Reid like millstones around the necks of anybody with a D behind their name.