FACEOFF POLL: Should West Virginians view Obama’s willingness to pull federal funding for Corridor H as retribution for the state’s lack of support for him?

And yet the very great margin of my fellow mountaineers are avid, enthusiastic viewers and believers of Fox news. Hmmmmmmm.

It's like parking illegally in the same place for years, nobody cares, until someone continually bring it to the attention of the police. And then the police have no alternative but to react to your illegal parking. Who caused this action to be taken.

Fox news kept the drum beat going about the "the road to nowhere" and our President was left no choice but to adhere to the laws. Thanks Fox News, thanks a lot.

Sen. Byrd endorsed and embraced Pres. Obama during the election, and the White House advisors know full well the Senator's commitment to Corridor H, and know just as well the range of his skills and depth of his influence in the legislative process, and no doubt concluded that despite the White House using the Corridor H funding to send a message to WV voters, the Senator would be able to restore the funding for a project so dear to his heart.
So they figured: "We can send a message and no real harm will be done. Plus, our friend Senator Byrd will get statewide credit for restoring the finding."

Now that the senator is in hospital, one wonders if the state will need someone else to stand up and restore that funding on the senator’s--and the state's--behalf.

--Polestar