Some thoughts on our new governor and the future of West Virginia
Hypocrisy and hate: It's a new year for the WV Trump Party
Patrick Morrisey four years ago*:
If you care about unity, you don’t spend the first 11 days of your Administration issuing one far-reaching executive order after another. His rhetoric doesn’t match his actions.
— Patrick Morrisey (@MorriseyWV) February 1, 2021
Morrisey was correct: why take 11 days when you can do it on the . . .
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Riley Moore update
Keeping tabs on our crypto* congressman
WV2 Congressman Riley Moore earlier today on the Trump sentencing:
Trump gets "Unconditional Discharge."
TRANSLATION: Democrats in DC and NY colluded to:
Harass the leading Republican candidate for President
Brand him a convicted felon
Give him no punishment for his "crimes"
This was pure election interference, and we must hold those… . . .
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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