Keeping up with the WV Trump Party
Easier said than done
WV Senator Shelley Moore Capito
Capito, yesterday, lectured the Democrats on changing the Supreme Court rules:
The Biden-Harris administration didn’t like how some of the #SCOTUS cases were decided, so their solution is to change the rules.
That’s not strengthening democracy or protecting the rule of law. . . .
Manchin: Pay attention to me!!! (with 7/22 update)
Hey, Joe: I thought you left the Democratic Party
"I will not be ignored!"
Just now, from independent (meaning no longer Democrat) Joe Manchin:
Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia independent, says he's considering re-registering as a Democrat and running for president, sources say.
— CNN (@CNN) July . . .
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How’s that West Virginia economy doing?
A look at CNBC's “Best States” and other recent economic surveys
Since 2007, business channel CNBC has compiled, using various economic indicators, a “best states for business” survey. Over the years, I’ve followed that survey and when I began blogging in 2014, I started summarizing the state’s rankings to see how the rankings changed as the state’s politics swung from conservative Democratic to . . .
Posted in: cnbc surveywest virginia economy
From bad to worse?
Updating the continuing decline of the Monday Wheeling Intelligencer
The front page
Today’s top story:
New Speech Therapy Device at WLU Is ‘Lighting the Way’
This top-of-the-page article is about West Liberty University’s Speech and Hearing Behavioral Health Clinic acquiring a rehabilitation device to aid its work with speech therapy and dementia patients. It is an . . .
Bipartisan Joe for President!
Of what?
Manchin giving money to Republicans!
From West Virginia’s independent senator:
"I will reward people who have worked across the aisle and passed legislation, engaged in bipartisan conversation and stood up to the extremes," @Sen_Joe Manchin writes, announcing a new direction for his PAC.https://t.co/cUbkpBX2XA
— CNN Opinion . . .
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We have a new clubhouse leader in the “2024 Dumbest X (formerly Twitter) Post by a West Virginia Politician” category
Update: A recent post by Riley Moore replaces an earlier one by Mike Stuart on Biden and Ginsburg
Previously, the 2024 leader in the "Dumbest X Post by a WV Politician" was WV state senator and attorney general candidate, Mike Stuart, who retweeted a post from a satiric site which claimed that President Biden had called for Justice Ginsburg’s retirement after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Colorado could not remove Donald . . .
Posted in: riley moore
More poop from WTOV-9
Our local Steubenville Broadcasting station continues to print and air Sinclair’s anti-Biden propaganda
As a follow-up to last week’s post on Sinclair Broadcasting’s anti-Biden propaganda (see previous post), Judd Legum is out with another Sinclair article which examines the source (the Republican National Committee) for Sinclair's anti-Biden articles and coverage and the extent to which that source distorts news reports. As Legum notes:
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