| McCaskill: Cannot Run Fast Enough |
Embattled incumbent Senate Claire McCaskill of Missouri must
have assumed that first promoting then dumping on GOP candidate Todd Akin would
assure her another six years in the Senate. However, no matter how loud she
howls about Congressman Todd Akin's missteps and misstatements, she cannot run
away from her lock-step liberal record while representing a conservative state.
Strangely enough, McCaskill endorsed candidate Barack Obama
in early 2008 (McCaskill
for Obama ). McCaskill claimed that
2008 would be a historical election, one in which unborn generations would swoon
hearing about soaring hope and “Yes We Can” populist optimism.
herself from the President whom she had so enthusiastically supported. Despite
the best attempts by this Senator, one who has jumped in line with one of the
most illiberal liberal presidents in modern times, she cannot run away from her
record of running up debts and deficits while supporting the runaway expansion
of the federal government at the expense of the states and the people.
From the failed stimulus extension of unemployment benefits,
from Dodd-Frank (Source)
to ObamaCare, McCaskill has been one more reliable vote for the Obama-Reid-Pelosi
expansion of state power at the expense of individual liberty and economic
freedom. (McCaskill's
Liberal Vote Record)
President Obama’s intention of staging the Democratic National Convention in
St. Louis, Missouri. As soon as ObamaCare was ruled constitutional by the
Supreme Court, she refused to report her reaction to the ruling. In fact, the
media in her home state could not track her down to get her reaction on the
issue. (McCaskill on the
Run). Apparently, she views President Obama as a huge liability to her
reelection prospects. So much so, that she also has no intention of attending
the renomination ceremony of the embattled incumbent President.
One year after Obama’s election, McCaskill faced one of the
most severe townhall meetings during the passage of ObamaCare.
Senator McCaskill as she insisted on pressing ahead to support ObamaCare. She
claimed that she would not vote for a bill that was not deficit neutral, when
in fact ObamaCare is already projected to cost $2.6 trillion (ObamaCare
Cost Increase) plus the huge and increasing raid of Medicare (Medicare
Cuts to ObamaCare), which is now up to $700 billion dollars.
In St. Louis, a soldier lectured the Senator on the extent
of the enumerated powers, which did not – and still does not – include health
care (Soldier
Lectures McCaskill). McCaskill ignored this veteran, and the majority of
voters in Missouri who opposed ObamaCare, pushing aside the constraints which
define our Constitution and supported the unprecedented expansion of government
power. Another woman lectured the senator on the money-grab out of Medicare,
when the largest number of retirees will take on this country. (Surgical
Nurse Lectures McCaskill on Medicare).
– in reality, understandable fear and outrage at the looming and now doomed government
expansion into health care — McCaskill asked her audience (McCaskill's Heated Town Hall
Exchange) in August 2009:
“You don’t trust me?”
A loud and uproarious “No!” followed and continued unabated
for a long time.
“What else can I do? Do you want me to go home?” McCaskill
then asked. The crowd roared approvingly.
ignoring constituents at home to vote in line with the liberal Beltway agenda
in Washington. Six years of two-faced “liberalism abroad” vs. “conservatism at
home” is enough.
Get Claire out of Washington and send her home for good!