Posted on 11/09/2014 8:12:55 AM PST by smoothsailing
People are funny that way. They cling to their bibles and guns. And then if you declare war on them, they don’t want to vote for you.
Coal-heavy districts in West Virginia, Kentucky and Illinois that had been steadily moving away from Democrats in recent elections appear to have completed that shift Tuesday, when they overwhelmingly backed Republicans who vowed to oppose what they call President Barack Obama’s “war on coal.”
In West Virginia, once a long-time Democratic stronghold, Republicans will take control of both houses of the state legislature for the first time since 1931. Republicans picked up seven seats in the state Senate to bring the balance to 17-17, and then Democrat Daniel Hall switched parties Wednesday to give the majority to the GOP.
Voters there also elected Rep. Shelley Moore Capito as their first GOP senator in 56 years, and Republicans won three congressional contests, even kicking out 38-year incumbent Rep. Nick Rahall.
Dems decided to get rid of coal. West Virginia decided to get rid of Dems.
It’s one of those blowback things that liberals are really good at explaining when it’s Muslims chopping heads, not so good at understanding when it’s Americans voting for Republicans.
West Virginia was the slowest to change, but the change has been the most dramatic.
Of course it is... all those electric car commercials tell us so! Those people driving gas guzzlers are such idiots.
The Dems “war on Coal” has reverberated in central Minnesota too.
We have a coal powered plant in Becker, MN which usually gets coal by railroad trains from Wyoming. This week we woke up to the news that the Becker plant is very low on coal compared to usual. The railroads are constantly moving tanks of crude oil from the Bakken Fields in ND to the refineries in the east. This fall the local farmers were worried they would not be able to get their produce to market because the railroad lines were so crowded with trains transporting oil.
If the Democrats had not stopped the Keystone pipeline, the oil could have been transported that way and not be competing with other commodities needing shipping.
Democrat voters are really too ignorant, too tied to their traditional voting patterns, or simply not interested in learning facts before voting.
I am happy to see that the people in West Virginia, Kentucky, and elsewhere have seen the light - FINALLY. Now if only the idiot leftists in Minnesota would do the same. Freezing in Central Minnesota might wake up some - but in actuality, Central Minnesota is already GOP territory. If it would affect the Twin Cities’ population, then maybe it would wake up the Rip van Winkels living there.
Manchin as an Independent that caucuses with the Republicans would be the best scenario, then we and he can test the waters to see how “conservative” he actually is.
Booker supports gay marriage..
The fuel use act of 1978 actually prohibited industrial use of natural gas. That is one reason coal boomed. Few people realize this.
“The FUA restricted construction of power plants using oil or natural gas as a primary fuel and encouraged the use of coal, nuclear energy and other alternative fuels. It also restricted the industrial use of oil and natural gas in large boilers.” http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngmajorleg/repeal.html
To save mother gaia....
The planet is dying from a fever....don’t you know?
Coal is a disease ...must be killed off before the host dies...
Not until they get nested in the. Whammy!
The war on coal is a war against America’s national interests.
This country is blessed with massive reserves of coal, to stop using it is insane.
Find ways of burning it cleaner sure, but to intentionally drive miners and coal plants out of business is just nuts.
“Democrats in recent elections appear to have completed that shift Tuesday, when they overwhelmingly backed Republicans who vowed to oppose what they call President Barack Obama’s “war on coal.”
I truly feel for these people but the time to vote against demoncrats was decades ago. Hell at least 6 yrs ago.
“Republicans must anticipate the worst and be prepared.”
Also: WE have to be ready to put down our plow and get out there.
Unexpected.
Sadly, it also appears that the Republicans are too stupid to understand exactly why they won.
There's nothing wrong with Pennsylvania that wouldn't be fixed by giving Philthadelphia (aka West Camden) to New Jersey.
They still don't have a clue.
“We know we’re right on the issues,” Debbie Wasserman Schultz said. “The American people believe in the causes we’re fighting for."
http://redalertpolitics.com/2014/11/09/dnc-chairwoman-right-issues-doesnt-translate-elections/
so true
“We know we’re right on the issues,” Debbie Wasserman Schultz said. “The American people believe in the causes we’re fighting for."
What a maroon.
If the American people believed in the causes the Democrats are fighting for, they would have returned an even stronger Dem majority to Congress last week.
Debbie knows that, as does every other elected Democrat in Washington. They just don't want to admit it because their feverish visions of a Socialist Utopia are more concrete than reality in their warped little minds.
glad to see the good folks of West Virginia have learned and come to their senses.
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