I’ll give Claire McCaskill this…she never passes up an opportunity to stick it to the Liberals without whom she would have never been elected. Indeed, she seems to take great glee in telling us to get bent.
Well guess what, toots? It goes both ways.
Today was the final straw, and I will have sharp words for whatever poor unfortunate soul calls my number on her behalf come 2012.
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) has joined Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) in warning leaders not to try to push a revised health care reform bill through the Senate before newly elected Republican Scott Brown arrives.
McCaskill said Wednesday morning that “people out there” believe the agenda is “going too far, too fast” and that it would be a “huge mistake” for Democrats to force a vote on a new bill in the Senate before the new senator from Massachusetts is seated.
“As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,” McCaskill told POLITICO.
Given that I was just about her last defender in these parts, she just doesn’t seem to have any friends left on the left. And it’s her own damn fault for never missing an opportunity to stab us in the back.
She seriously wants to wait for the guy who ran on a campaign promise to destroy what Ted Kennedy worked for for forty-seven years???
With Democrats like her, who needs republicans?
I inadvertently left Claire’s name off the list.
Everyone must read the e-mail Josh Marshall has put up from a Senate staffer.
What are we facing here in Missouri? Well, we now know that Ike Skelton will not ever be associated with progressive legislation.
And, what will Robin Carnahan’s platform be: I’m not Roy Blunt.
Dammit! I never spent so much of own money last year to elect Democrats.
I never knocked on so many doors last year to elect Democrats.
I really thought our party leaders weren’t afraid to stand up and BE Demcrats. In others words, to use government to improve the lives of people and make the future better for a children and grandchildren.
Did I waste my time and money last year? I’m going to be sixty years old very, very soon. Do I really want to spend two hours a day, six days a week from the middle of August to November knocking on doors and getting people registered to vote to work for people who believe our agenda is “going too far, too fast”? And, remember that agenda is providing health care to ALL Americans. No other advanced-industrialized country is as backward in health care as our country.
I wonder if the junior Senator from Missouri reads this blog and realizes people like me are essential for getting out the vote. And, we just had a candidate who was above motivating people like me in Massachusetts. Now, afterbecoming a minority with 59 votes out of 100, the junior Senator from Missouri tells me the agenda I was fighting for by registering 800 people who voted for Obama in 2008 is “too far” and “too fast.”
The staffer who sent Josh Marshall that email asked “what do Democrats stand for?” Hell, Claire and Ike and Robin, what do you stand for? If you want me to stand with you, and I have a record that very few if any Democrats can touch in my area, you had better articulate it pretty soon.
I’ll be 60 years old in August, and I’m going to be very, very hard pressed to want to stand with anyone who thinks the agenda we had in 2008 was “too far and too fast.”
If you want to give into the teabaggers and become Republican-lite, I can’t stop you. But I’m not standing with any Democrat who becomes Republican-lite. I have better things to do, then lift a finger to work for a Republican-lite candidate.
If we are going to lose in November, let’s lose defending our principle!