Obama's 'war on coal' likely to give GOP edge in West Virginia

HUMAN EVENTS ^ | 04/16/201295 | John Gizzi

[Reily]

don't foget drunken filthy, corrupt POS Rahall for a bonus

[Reily]

don't forget drunken filthy, corrupt POS Rahall for a bonus

[Reily]

Va went for Zero by a narrow margin as did NC.

[fallujah-nuker]

West Virginia voted for McCain in 2008. What killed the GOP was the GOP, the idea that they need to pander on the issue of illegals to appease all those "natural conservatives" who's "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." Hispandering, GOP went for it big time in 2008 and look where it got them? In order to pander to a hostile voting block they work to make the hostile voting bloc much larger in the future. Sort of like letting the 9-11 hijackers take over planes with box cutters, where perhaps a few people would have been killed or injured, and allowing them to have control of the airplanes so they can kill thousands instead.

[hinckley buzzard]

Well, in 2008, without the "war on coal," McCain took WVa, so I don't think the unions will have any more to say now than they did then.

[hinckley buzzard]

the votes in 2008 speak for themselves

Sure do. WVA voted for McCain by a 13% margin.

[samanella]

Man, I hope that sign hasn’t been photoshopped! I know exactly where that is!

WV is so ingrained Democrat and union. That’s why so many people leave the state and no industry will come in. They don’t get it, don’t want to get it. They really wanted Hillary, but voted for Obama even tho’ he said he would shut down coal. I have no more sympathy for my home state.

[hinckley buzzard]

Obama TOLD West Virginny that he was going to shut them down in 2008...and they voted for him anyway.

WVa voted for McCain by a 13% margin. Where do you guys get this sh*t anyway?

[MadelineZapeezda]

WV came thru big time for Bush in 04 and McCain in 08 by a 13% margin.....get your sheet together before you go insultin WVyunz!!!!

[ml/nj]

Man, I hope that sign hasn’t been photoshopped!

I don't know about that specific sign, but the reason I know about it is that I drove through West Virginia last week and saw a sign just like it.

ML/NJ

[RedMDer]

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[gotribe]

Not gonna happen. They’ll be placated with more government handouts.

[Shady]

They had better not be. Has someone read Obamacare and determined whether or not they can exclude coverage for workers in certain “bad” industries like coal mining...”for the cost saving good of the State?” Just asking...

[!1776!]

It's not a war on coal, it is an out and out slaughter on on coal. War is too kind of a nametag. What the Obama adiminstration has proposed kills coal, plain and simple.

CSAPR, MATS, and the proposed CO2 regs make new coal projects impossible. Financing is unavailable since vendor will not guarentee performance numbers for new units. That is a result of testing methods not being able to accurately detect the levels required, and the fact that those limits have to be met almost always - no deviations.

For the proposed CO2 NSPS, coal requires CCS. CCS is not even commericially available. The bench test tehs are drawing 25% parasitic load. Buld a 400 MW plant, get only 300 MW out (less other parasitic loads).

Coal is dead if Obama has a second term. I don't trust unions, coal or not, to step up to the plate. I am afraid they will slit their own necks with an Obama vote. I hope I am wrong, but not an optomist tonight...

[Roccus]

this is BS...they elected him last time.....so prove me wrong West Virginia....

Check yer facts before shootin' off yer mouth. WV was red in 2000, 2004 and 2008. It did NOT vote for Zer0. The big problem with the GOP in WV is the corrupt WV GOP itself!

[Road Glide]

“there are some areas that could care less what happens, they are going to vote for the crooked messiah no matter what.....
so prove me wrong West Virginia...”

If I recall correctly, West Virginia went to McCain in 2008....

[Roccus]

Obama TOLD West Virginny that he was going to shut them down in 2008...and they voted for him anyway.

C'mon, hat! I always thought you were a better man than that. Why go off half-cocked on the basis of what some idiot GOP apparatchik FReeper says?

[hattend]

Because, as I explained in a further post, I thought they did go for Obama. Just didn’t check the facts before posting.

Sorry West Virginia

[toddausauras]

If we can’t win W.V. then I will cease to pay attention to politics.

[no dems]

Democratic pollster, Doug Schoen, said tonight on Hannity that the Obama team had “written off” West Virginia.