Hey, Joe Manchin, here’s what WV’s newly elected congressman thinks about your “working across the aisle” mantra
Yesterday, CNN invited a couple of newly elected representatives for its morning talk show “State of the Union with Jake Tapper.” Among other questions, the host wanted to know from the new members about their willingness to work with the other party. WV2’s Riley Moore was among those invited, and he quickly demonstrated the mean-spiritedness . . .
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Remembering January 6, 2021
Senator Capito and the nation's newspapers
Newspapers
From around the nation on January 7, 2021:
I checked the Wheeling Intelligencer’s archive for that day. It posted this message:
PAGE NOT AVAILABLE
The page was available a couple of years ago. (My memory says that the Intelligencer carried an edited AP story.)
The evolution of . . .
An Ohio private college will soon get five million dollars of our tax dollars to train WV workers and push a rightwing agenda
And the WV Trump Party is just getting started
From the front page of yesterday’s Charleston Gazette-Mail:
W.Va. board OKs $5M for Ohio Catholic school, conservative agenda
The story, by G-M reporter Mike Tony, documents the awarding of $5 million of WV taxpayer money to the College of Steubenville’s College of St. Joseph the Worker:
West . . .
What have West Virginia’s senators been doing lately?
That is, beyond demonstrating their loyalty to Donald Trump
Manchin at the Army-Navy game
Yes, “loyalties” is a good word:
In case you’re wondering where Joe Manchin’s loyalties lie:
— Protect Kamala Harris (@DisavowTrump20) December 15, 2024
Look at who is in Trump’s suite at the Army-Navy game yesterday. pic.twitter.com/gvh9ymZFb8
Who else was there?
Daniel Penny, the . . .
If the history of how American democracy ended gets written, I hope Joe Manchin gets his proper due
Earlier today on a key vote:
Joe Manchin has so much responsibility for the collapse of the Democratic Party in the last four years. He weaponized his key vote in ways that made the party appear chaotic, feckless, and unable to govern. Other things went wrong, but he is key to the party’s collapse. pic.twitter.com/bCCw5FyD73
— James . . .
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Welcome to West Virginia
Where the ruling party believes that getting less than half of the votes cast is considered a “mandate”
From the WV GOP:
RELEASE: Red Wave Delivers Clear Republican Mandate https://t.co/V2DkD2MAI9
— WVGOP (@WVGOP) November 12, 2024
And here is the elected Republican representative from Congressional District 2 sparing no hyperboles:
This is the greatest political comeback story in the history of our country. The American . . .
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Judges and cabinet picks
Senator Capito's busy week
Judges
Earlier this week, West Virginia Senator Capito thought that the Senate ought to be dealing with more important matters than confirming judges:
The American people were heard loud and clear on Election Day.
They want their government to work for THEM.
It’s sad to see that in the final weeks of a Democrat Senate majority, . . .
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