West Virginia

Bob Costa's headline in the Washington Post the other day, "Progressives turn from Obama to embrace Warren"-- which an editor probably wrote-- missed a key point. Obama isn't running for president, or anything else, again. Perhaps "Progressives turn from Hillary to embrace Warren" would have been more to the point."Citibank and Goldman Sachs and all those other guys on Wall Street, they’ve got plenty of folks in the U.S. Senate willing to work on their side," Warren told the partisan Democratic crowd in Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

This morning we started the day with a look at the irreversible catastrophe Global Warming has in store for Florida-- and how Florida congressmembers from districts that will wind up entirely under the sea-- like Dennis Ross, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Mario Diaz-Balart, Patrick Murphy, Bill Posey and Vern Buchanan-- have consistently voted against policies that would save their own constituents and for an agenda that will utterly destroy the very districts they represent.

This weekend's "must read" was Trip Gabriel's NY Times piece, 50 Years Into The War On Poverty, Hardship Hits Back.

Evan Jenkins was a very right-wing Democrat who followed his opportunistic instincts to switch parties recently and run against a right-wing Democrat who hasn't switched parties, Nick Rahall. Jenkins' TV spot above has a couple of lines I want to call special attention to:

It's a dirty little secret that Hoyer and his corrupt, conservative allies in the House Democratic caucus forced Nancy Pelosi to appoint Long Island "ex"-Blue Dog and model of Wall Street corruption, Steve Israel as DCCC chairman. We've mentioned a few times how Israel's "strategy" mathematically guarantees that the Republicans can never lose the majority in the House, or at least not while he is DCCC Chair.

Media Monarchy joins Jack Blood this month to break down spook TV, Mumia media, drone drills, 'this day in history' and much more on

If you read this blog much, you've probably noticed we sometimes express a bit of antipathy towards ConservaDems, New Dems and Blue Dogs, generally speaking, the Republican wing ofd the Democratic Party. Over the years Blue America has even helped defeat some of the worst of them, particularly Al Wynn (MD), Tim Holden (PA), Chris Carney (PA) and Bobby Bright (AL). We've had John Barrow (GA), Jim Matheson (UT) and others like them in our sites for years. But one long-time conservative Democrat who we never really went after has been Nick Rahall (WV).

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Maybe you read yesterday that the water in tens of thousands of West Virginia homes is still polluted. No perp walks for any of the culprits… certainly not in West Virginia. Kiley Kroh reported at Think Progress that 40% of homes in the area of the toxic spill are still testing positive for the chemicals that polluted the Elk River.

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