McCaskill to Democrats: ‘It’s time for us to fight’
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“We’ve got some work to do,” Sen. Claire McCaskill told a conference room full of Democratic party loyalists. The Missouri senator, who has admitted she will face a tough 2012 election battle, said “I like our side of this fight.”
McCaskill outlined the steps supporters need to take to try and convince fellow Missouri voters that Democrats are on the side of working people during a banquet Saturday evening, capping off Democrat Days in Hannibal.
The steps include calling talk radio shows, responding to comments online, and talking with their coworkers. McCaskill also told the crowd of around 400 it is important to defend the federal stimulus spending program.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who introduced McCaskill, told the party faithful at the state’s first Democratic convention that everyone was there because they all share the same values. Nixon will also be up for reelection in 2012.
Rep. Russ Carnahan, who represents the third congressional district in the St. Louis region, introduced Nixon. Carnahan, who barely kept his seat last fall, said it is time to turn the page. “We need to move on,” he said.
Earlier during a brunch, Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, a sister to Russ Carnahan, compared the current political environment to the TV show “The Twilight Zone.” She blamed low voter turnout for the results.
Missouri Treasurer Clint Zweifel introduced Carnahan. He told the room full of around 300 supporters at the brunch there are great Democratic candidates that would be in office right now following any other election cycle.
The least political of all the speakers during Democrat Days was Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. The former Republican focused most of his comments on domestic violence and protecting the Lake of the Ozarks.
The Missouri Republican Party held its political convention, Lincoln Days, in Springfield last weekend.
By Brian R. Hook, brhook@missouriwatchdog.org, (314) 482-7944
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12:40 pm on March 6th, 2011
Claire is unbelievably dishonest. She hands out piles of OTHER peoples’ money, while talking about her beneficence. The “stimulus” (AND Bush’s “bailout” before that, which she also voted for) consists of printing money to give to the buddies of the Fed. Every dollar they create from thin air dilutes every dollar you ever earned and now hold. Workers and savers are getting screwed blue by the Fed and Claire is a Fed buddy. Claire is a multi-millionaire, based upon her circumvention in Missouri of the very laws that she was sworn, as former state auditor, to enforce. Like all Fed buddies, Claire is connected. And she FIGHTS for the “progressive” agenda
“Since when do you have the nerve to go for the mat for multi-millionaires, and do it on the backs of the working people.” Yet it is Claire that supported and voted for the stimulus and the Bush bailout that further enriched the politically connected rich.
“They always say that this is about class warfare, but it is not. This is about Plain fairness, simple justice.” The simple justice of ripping off the middle class worker, taxpayer and saver? The simple justice of making sure that the “progressive” agenda continues to enrich the politically connected (e.g, Carnahan wind farm)?
Claire NEVER mentions the consequences of her policies, nor does she ever mention the root causes of the problems we face. If we were to have an open discussion about this, we would quickly discover that these two are one and the same. The “progressive” polices that have been enacted have created the problems we now face. What is the solution? Double the root cause! What a hypocrite!
Claire is DESTROYING the middle class!
Mohandas Ghandi said, approximately: “First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.” Claire finally acknowledges that she has now decided to “fight” us. Because she chooses to twist the truth into unrecognizable forms, because she paints us as doing what she is doing, and because she paints herself with the virtue of the Tea Party patriots, we must wonder if her “fight” will include, per her “progressive” ways, police state tactics. Oh, I forgot, she and her buddies are ALREADY doing that! She brassily invites the fight that previously she could not even acknowledge. She will not win. Because she stands squarely opposed to truth and justice.
4:00 pm on March 6th, 2011
Claire McCaskill showed how she feels about the voice of Missourians when she voted against repealing Obamacare. Missourians spoke very clearly when Proposition C, the Healthcare Freedom Act, passed with over 70% of the vote. We were ignored by Ms. McCaskill, and there is nothing more I need to know beyond that to determine that she will not be getting my vote. I don’t need a mommy or a nanny deciding what is best for me. I am a free person and am capable of making my own decisions and taking responsibility for the results of those decisions. As free adults, we should be allowed to make our own decisions and be held responsible for the results of the decisions we make. I wish for the government to neither make my decisions nor bail me out when I end up in a tight spot due to poor decision making. Freedom, not safety, not lack of cosequences, is what this country was founded on. Ms. McCaskill doesn’t get it, and she won’t get my vote.