Bye, Asshole
Only Senator Chris Coons will be sad when this happens because he will advance into second (behind Sinema) in the “biggest Democratic asshole in the Senate” rankings.
Jim Justice plans Senate launch for next week
Gov. Jim Justice is planning to launch a long-awaited campaign against Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) next week, handing Republicans a well-funded and popular recruit in their best opportunity to flip a Senate seat.
He will make his announcement on Thursday evening at The Greenbrier, his luxury resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., according to an invitation to the event obtained by POLITICO. A GOP strategist close to Justice confirmed the details. Thursday is also the governor’s 72nd birthday.
This was inevitable for Manchin, to stay in office as a Dem in that state requires a bit of charisma and perhaps a personality, Manchin had neither. He was no man of the people, unless it was the oil and coal people. But just as Delaware is doomed to an endless parade of corporate Dems so to is West Virginia fated to servants of big coal and oil. And the party matters not.