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Claire McCaskill discussing “preexisting conditions” October 15, 2018.

16 Tuesday Oct 2018

Posted by Jerry Schmidt in Claire McCaskill, Democratic Party News, Healthcare, US Senate

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Previously:

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) – Odessa, Missouri – October 15, 2018 (October 15, 2018)

On Health Care – Claire McCaskill Town Hall Meeting in Eldon Missouri – video by Jerry Schmidt

08 Saturday Jul 2017

Posted by jerrycentral in Claire McCaskill, Democratic Party News, Roy Blunt, Town Hall, US Senate

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Claire McCaskill answers questions about Health Care at Eldon Town Hall.

Video by Jerry Schmidt

Previously:

Sen. Claire McCaskill (D): even more town halls (July 5, 2017)

Claire McCaskill Town Hall Meeting in Eldon Missouri – video by Jerry Schmidt (July 5, 2017)

Photos at Roy Blunt’s Office – June 23 2017 Indivisible – KC Hillary Klofkorn Shields

26 Monday Jun 2017

Posted by jerrycentral in Democratic Party News, Resist, Roy Blunt, US Senate

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healthcare reform, Indivisible KC, Mitch McConnell

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Why is Claire McCaskill so feisty while Roy Blunt shows his squeamish side?

23 Monday Sep 2013

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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ACA, Affordable Care Act, Claire McCaskill, fiscal policy, Government shutdown, healthcare reform, missouri, Obamacare, Roy Blunt

Via Politico we learn that Claire McCaskill seems to be feeling her oats when it comes to the threatened GOP government shutdown over their OCD efforts to defund the Affordable Care Act (ACA):

I don’t think in America we should throw tantrums when we lose elections and threaten to shut down the government and refuse to pay the bills,” the Missouri Democrat said on “Fox News Sunday.” “The American people had a choice last November. They had a choice between someone who said repeal Obamacare, and President Obama.”

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“I cannot believe that they are gonna throw a tantrum and throw the American people and our economic recovery under the bus,” she said of Republicans. “It is really gonna hurt real people. And this is just political point-making.”

McCaskill was feeling so empowered that she characterized the GOP shutdown antics as “Akin-itis.” (Well … duh! Did anyone ever really think that Todd Akin was an isolated phenomenon in the party of Galloping Old Poops?)

McCaskill’s GOP opposite number, though, Senator Roy Blunt, has a different take as you might expet. Nevertheless, there are plenty of hints that he’s a bit squeamish when it comes to the floor-kicking, full-out tantrum that folks like Ted Cruz are promising:

Blunt has given no indication of siding with a determined element promising every rules trick to keep the anti-heath law offensive alive. Before that moment comes, all Republicans can weigh in heartily on the new law.

“I’m no supporter of the president’s health care plan. I believe it won’t work, there’s evidence every day of that, and I’ll vote to not move forward with it,” he said in a Friday interview.

He added: “I don’t know where we’ll be in the middle of the week.”

What could account for McCaskill’s political vim and vigor and Blunt’s cautious and worried tone? Could it be, as Robert Kuttner points out, that an unpopular shutdown is a dangerous ploy for vulnerable Republicans:

This very high-profile mess, just a year before next mid-term election, could upend assumptions about 2014. Democrats need to pick up just 17 seats to take back the House. Most analysts put the number of at-risk Republican seats at between 20 and 25, meaning that Democrats would need to run most of the table. But a deeper look suggests that more Republican seats could be vulnerable. In 2012, Republicans won 41 seats with 55 percent of the vote or less. If Democrats hold their own seats and win back even half of those, they take back the Majority.

Of course, for Blunt the issue probably also threatens to have even more tellling blowback: the people who employ him, his corporate cronies, are aghast at the reckless abandon of his more extreme Tea Party congressional colleagues. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has urged the GOPers to act in a more fiscally responsible manner. Even Wall Street recognizes the foolishness for what it is. The big money folks will fund any kind of stupidity as long as it gets pols sympathetic to their money-making needs into power. Where they draw the line, though, is when the stupidity spills over into financial lunacy – a fact that is surely not lost on Blunt. After all, as Slate’s John Dickerson puts it:

House Republicans aren’t just courting disaster. They’re helping President Obama make the case that they were the problem all along.

No wonder McCaskill is energized and Blunt suitably subdued.

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blunt nips the bud

21 Sunday Jul 2013

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Affordable Healthcare Act, health insurance, healthcare, healthcare reform, Missouri Senator, Obamacare, Republican Politics, Roy Blunt, Senator Blunt, Senator Roy Blunt, U.S. Senate

Posted by Michael Bersin | Filed under Uncategorized

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GOP Insanity

17 Tuesday Jul 2012

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Albert Einstein, Barack Obama, Cartoon About Obamacare, Cartoon of Albert Einstein, congress and healthcare, G.O.P., Healthcare Bill, healthcare debate, healthcare humor, healthcare reform, Insanity, Obamacare, Republican Party, Supreme Court Healthcare Ruling, Theory of Relativity

Posted by Michael Bersin | Filed under Uncategorized

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McConnell's Epiphany

15 Sunday Apr 2012

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Activist Courts, Affordable Care Act, Barack Obama, Cartoons of Mitch McConnell, GOP, Healcare and Congress, healthcare reform, Judicial Activism, Obamacare, Republican Party, Senator Mitch McConnell, Supreme Court, United States Supreme Court

Posted by Michael Bersin | Filed under Uncategorized

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Rush's Bust

07 Wednesday Mar 2012

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Conservative Talk Radio, contraception, hall of famous missourians, harry s. truman, healthcare, healthcare reform, Mark Twain, Missouri House of Representatives, missouri political cartoon, Missouri politics, missouri state legislature, political humor, Rush Limbaugh, talk radio

Posted by Michael Bersin | Filed under Uncategorized

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