Commenting on this article, Glenn Reynolds (a.k.a., Instapundit) wrote, “All America is West Virginia Now…”

Not to say I told you so, but…

Back in 2007, I created a fact sheet to “encourage” people to vote for Democrats in the 2008 elections.

This fact sheet listed a bunch of statistics on West Virginia, starting with the fact that we’ve been mostly Democrat controlled for 75 years^[a], and continuing with a number of bad statistics about the state as a whole. I concluded with “Vote Democrat in ’08! – Because it’s easier to drag everyone else down to our level than to climb up to theirs.”

For those who might want to argue that, technically, this recession actually started during Bush’s term, remember that the President’s powers are limited by a series of checks and balances; whatever damage was done late in Bush’s Presidency was, at the very least, aided and abetted by a Democratic Congress. (Not that he was free of blame, of course – I didn’t care for a lot of his policies, either.)

1. It was 75 years in 2008. This was, admittedly, in the future at the time I created the flyer, but, using my amazing deductive skills, I figured the makeup of our government wouldn’t change drastically sans election. [↩]