Wonder how much that cost?
I asked a few people about what they thought happened in the
dropping of drunk driving charges against Jack Whittaker. All of them responded the same way. See the title of this blog for the response.
My own opinion is that it cost Whittaker about $10,000. Hell, you can buy a legislator for less than $10,000.
I predict that this unacceptable situation will be solved in another way. Whittaker hasnot got the message that alcohol kills. I suspect that he believes he is immune to the laws of nature and nature's God as well as the laws of man.
Well, he can't buy God, no matter what the right wing evangelical neo-cons believe.
Nice knowin' ya, Jack.
All West Virginia Democrats are liberals....
...and all West Virginia Republicans are moral conservatives. Right?
Well how do you explain
this? I am extremely happy to report that I got out of the political party madness in 1969 and never went back. I am a proud independent and that doesn't mean I associate myself with an Independent Party, if there is one.
Joe Manchin is the titular head of the West Virignia Democrat Party but anyoe who beleives he is a liberal or espouses the principles of the party is living a dream - or perhaps a nightmare.
Manchin reminds me a little of Arch Moroe in his younger days. Arch believed he was bigger than any party and above the law.
Manchin has yet to show that latter attribute. But it's still early. He has threemore years in this term and perhaps a second term.
Meanwhile, it might behoove Republicans to stop branding West Virginia Democrats as liberals. A few of them might be, but most aren't. Most of them are whatever they think will get them re-elected.
I won't suggest Republicans stop labeling themselves as the good guys, though. That would be asking entirely too much, don't you think?