Gerry Connolly has passed away: And liberal Dems are dancing on his grave

You don’t think about it now, because Northern Virginia is now deep, deep blue, but Gerry Connolly had to flip a district that had been Republican for 14 years when he ran and won in the 11th in 2008.

Connolly won re-election in 2010 by 981 votes, 0.43 percent, razor-thin.

His last three re-elections were 66 percent-plus.

Connolly passed away Wednesday at the age of 75, just weeks after announcing that he was stepping back from his role as the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee and would not run for re-election in 2026 due to his battle with esophageal cancer.

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• Gerry Connolly announces return of cancer, plans to step down at end of term

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Gerry Connolly was a foundational element of the NoVA blue firewall that has had outsized impact on statewide elections.

The thanks for his efforts: in-house supposedly liberal Dem critics literally dancing on his grave.

“Nothing you can say about Connolly is meaner than his decades-long ‘friends’ on Capitol Hill refusing to stage an intervention when he decided to run for Oversight while terminally ill,” liberal journo Ken Klippenstein wrote on Bluesky.

This came from Klippenstein after he’d already highlighted an exchange from December with Susan Swecker, then the chair of the Democratic Party of Virginia, who had clapped back at Klippenstein’s criticism of Connolly running for the House Oversight post.

Swecker’s reply to Klippenstein: “Gerry Connolly is going to kick cancer’s ass.”

Hey, this Klippenstein guy was right: cancer, as it turned out, kicked Gerry Connolly’s ass.

Score one for the Klipper.

Another liberal journo, a guy named Max Berger, who advertises himself as a former Howard Dean guy and Occupy organizer, eulogized Connolly this way:

“Congressional Democrats put a 74-year-old cancer patient in charge of providing oversight. He died within five months of taking the job. It’s a form of political negligence that borders on criminal,” Berger wrote on Bluesky, then added:

“Let me put an even finer point on this: Nancy Pelosi intervened in the House Oversight race to make sure a 74-year-old cancer patient won over an up and coming, Latino woman — right before Musk eviscerated the government. Who do we think would’ve done a better job at providing oversight?”

Thanks for your service, Congressman Connolly, indeed.

Then we got this from Jane Ost, a baseball podcaster:

“Gerry Connolly should’ve spent his last few months (or years) with his family. Was it worth clinging to his seat so he could add ‘finally chaired the Ways and Means Committee after years as a backbencher, but did it very badly’ onto his Wikipedia page?”

Yikes.

Wait, it gets better.

“Not only are they hurting the country, but liberals death-gripping their jobs like the reaper himself will take them if they retire is so sad. Clyburn saying, ‘What will I do with myself if I retire?’ is so sad. Ginsberg looking like the Cryptkeeper until she dies on the bench is sad.”

Get it? They’re old.

That’s the indictment.

To be fair, I’m highlighting these particular jerkwads here because I’m able to track their identities down.

There’s tons more like this from people with CB handles who nobody has ever heard of or gives two sh-ts about.

Gerry Connolly isn’t in the ground yet, and people who claim to be Dems, but act more MAGA than MAGA, are lining up with their shovels.

They’re why we don’t deserve good things.