Claire McCaskill: Missouri Voters Too Stupid to Realize What’s Good For Them
**Written by Doug Powers
Okay, the Missouri Senator didn’t phrase it exactly that way, but that’s what she said.
On Tuesday, Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected a federal mandate to purchase health insurance.
Naturally, that’s just because most voters didn’t understand the product and are incapable of wrapping their heads around the totally awesome creamy goodness that is Obamacare:
McCaskill said she understood what Missouri voters had been trying to say about the healthcare reform law for which she had voted in the Senate. But the centrist senator downplayed the vote as a result of heavy Republican primary turnout and a lack of education about the effects of the law.
“I certainly noticed the vote on Prop C, the healthcare law, and: message received,” she said Wednesday in a conference call with state reporters.
“I think there has been … a lot of noise about the mandate that people have gotten so focused on that they don’t realize that there’s going to be more access and affordability and more choices,” she said.
It’s too bad for the Senator doesn’t understand that even us rubes, hicks, hayseeds, simpletons and peasants have asked ourselves a very simple question that answers itself: If everybody’s going to like it so much, why does it have to be mandated?
**Written by Doug Powers
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Apparently she was too bust to read the bill!
…but ignored
The simple fact, claire, we American’s have now gotten to read the bill, you know the one you didn’t, and we DO NOT want it, never did, never will! How’s that for you, claire?
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Sorry claire,
I’ve got a college degree and still don’t like whats coming out of the swamp.
GSP
She’s got that partially right; her voters are stupid.
None of these pols have read the bill but they are so sure that it is essential to prosperity. Why is it then that the more we learn what is in the bill, the more we discover about how many lies it took to get it passed?
That’s about the same thing our state’s AG and Democrat nominee for Senator Bunning’s seat has said in response to questions as to why he refuses to enjoin KY in any suits against Obamacare.
She’s right. They voted for her.
Whaaaa????
Yep, DBN… ole’ Jack “I’ll run for just about any office” Conway keeps emailing me to tell me how great ObamaCare is and how wonderful Obama is… (we’re registered as a Democrats so we can screw up their primaries – tee hee…) Here’s hoping Rand Paul can pull it our against Jack”Pretty Boy” Conway!
That’s Claire McCaskill (D,)Missouri.
That is because EVERY one of those claims is a LIE.
So, it’s really good they don’t realize them.
So the Left is now the Center…
In a related story the media declares that the sky is no longer blue and water is no longer wet, liberals everywhere immediately concur.
That will certainly be true for the govt. dependent class, who will receive enormouse subsidies to the point their health care will be essentially free. For those paying for those subsidies there will be more taxes, skyrocketing insurance rates, longer waits and a number of new govt. bureaucracies to deal with (that is the choice part). And just in case your not intelligent enough to take part in this new system you will be fined for not exercising your right to health care.
Show me, you idiotic twat.
Well, to The Hill it is.
McCaskill is a loon.
Hey, why has no one put up commentary on the Senate voting in Kagan? I want to see which traitorous Republicans supported her and WORK TO UNSEAT THEM!
Anybody know how Claire knows what’s in the bill since she hasn’t read it?
If the voters allow this dirtbag to remain in office then she just may be right about their intellect.
Oh great – another week of hearing the MSM sing yet another chorus of the “An Obama Victory” anthem.
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HI BLAMEAMERICALAST–#9. Good comment–I was going to type it in–but you beat me to it.
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I am in the same situation in El Paso, Tx. My “representative”–Sylvestre Reyes (D)–is bulletproof in this 80 percent DimocRATic mainly Hispanic city.
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I got his ad today extolling the great bacon he has brought home for us. As he voted lockstep with the Comrade Obama (PBUH), SanFranNan, and Dirty Harry Reid socialist / marxist / redistributionist agenda.
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I hope conservatives can get rid of these vermin in their states. I can’t find a big enough can of Raid to get Mr. Reyes to leave my city.
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John Bibb
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don’t get those of us from Missouri started on this nitwit. Her arrogance is typical of dumbocrats. She and her crony bunch which includes the Carnahan sisters (thanks Spacey) need to be booted out but it’s hard to change stupid in our state.
Hey Missouri, show Claire just how stupid she is and vote her out.
I heard this loon on the radio this morning. She has the same talking point of Obowmao..which is the American public just doesn’t quite understand how great it will be. She went right to the next talking point that when we understood it, we would love it. Not that they would go back to the drawing board to find something more acceptable but they were going to continue to ram this Sh*t down our throats. My question is when where will the re-education camps be built?
TigerLady–I think the camps will be in near the lake…an Ozark Gulag, if you will.
McCaskill centrist? My aching okole………
I thought they’d be closer to Jeff County.
By the way, did you know there was a prison of war camp in Ste. Genevieve during WWII?
How stupid was she, making that statement in the face of the Missouri vote the other day?
Essentially, “kick me, I’m stupid”…
Hey, you left out us yokels!
Well it’s kind of wishful thinking–from our cabins in the Ozarks we will have access to moonshine molotov cocktails.
That is all the American people will be to activists and elitists – noise.
I pray they remember that when all of this noise culminates in November and beyond.
And I thought Claire was pro-choice…
Apparently, within a very narrow context.
mmmmmmmmm donuts. Give me donuts Claire. I love you. Please bear my children. We can become morbidly obese together then await transfer to our neighborhood liquidation chamber. The State must be preserved.
Don’t get too attached to this demonic law Claire, it will be repealed in due course, and so will you.
She’s either lying through her teeth or she’s delusional. Either way, she stinks.
So does this woman really believe what she is saying or is she just another typical lying politician with some other hidden agenda? (if she believes what she’s saying then she’s either stupid or insane
)
BINGO!!!
Got it in one, Doug.
Nothing more needs to be said.
what the hay…there is no such thing as centrist democrap.
My name is Claire,
I’m aware some stare at my hair.
In fact, to be fair,
Some really despair of my hair.
But I don’t care,
Cause they’re not aware,
Nor are they debonair.
In fact, they’re just square.
They see hair down to there,
Say, “Beware” and go off on a tear!
I say, “No fair!”
A head that’s bare is really nowhere.
So be like a bear, be fair with your hair!
Show it you care.
Wear it to there.
Or to there.
Or to there, if you dare!
I bought some hair at a fair, to use as a spare.
Did I care?
Au contraire!
Spare hair is fair!
In fact, hair can be rare.
Fred Astaire got no hair,
Nor does a chair,
Nor nor a chocolate eclair,
And where is the hair on a pear?
Nowhere, mon frere!
So now that I’ve shared this affair of the hair,
I’m going to repair to my lair and use Nair, do you care?
And how many like me that practice medicine are going to be willing to accept a 32% drop in Medicare reimbursement?
Great bill there deamoncRATS.
McCats-kill is up for re-election this year. If you MO. people are going to dump her you don’t have a whole lot of time–hope her opponent is not so much of a dim bulb. Who is running against her?? Any hope there??
AZ, Fl and CO (and maybe more) also have the same “Freedom from Obamacare” bills on the ballot (better known as nullification) so lets watch this mess go down in flames.
If I recall correctly, this is the woman Michael J. Fox went out and campaigned so hard for (thus, the whole Fox/Limbaugh controversy).
I wonder if Fox has any buyer’s remorse now, considering people with special medical needs (like Parkinsons) will be put to the back of the obamacare bus.
GraniteMan echoes Granite’s thought.
Sad to say, she is not up for re-election this year. The US Senate seat for MO that is up for grabs is between Roy Blunt(R) and Robin Carnahan(D). Current Senator is Kit Bond who is retiring.
Blunt is currently US Congressman and Carnahan is currently Secy of State.
I’ve written my “fabulous” and “in touch” Senator McCaskill before. Of course, by “fabulous” and “in touch” I really mean “arrogant” and “condescending”. It was a couple of years ago, she had been in office about a year, I remember that much at least. I also remember that the answer I got back was condescending and had the tone of someone speaking to an idiot. It hacked me off so much that I vowed to personally volunteer for her opponent when she was up for re-election (which I have never before felt any desire to do).
Has anyone else noticed how MS McCaskill’s physical appearance mirrors the erosion of the country? She has gone from Bad to worse in her appearance. In short she looks like HELL!
Must be that old saw about lies making your nose grow…only in her case she ages and bloats for every untruth she spouts!
Because of the ghetto cities of St.Louis and Kansas City the Democrats can usually pull out a tight win. Hell anyone who can count on Mickey mouse and Donald duck voting for them, deserves to win.
Even better question: If it’s so great, why did it have to be rammed through before anyone could read it, even though it wouldn’t take effect for 4 years?
To #27 We Missourians love the beautiful OZARKS’ hills, valleys, rivers and lakes. Sending the DemWits to a “gulag” there would like sending them to paradise. No pollution, please!
Send them to the “resort” at Guantanamo where their comrades and our USA enemies are waiting for the DOJ AG Holder to send murderers back to their countries and to their already released terrorists buddies.
Wait! That might not be any consequences at all for the DemWits who are so H—l-bent on destroying America from within! Dems have spent $millions on the GB Resort/Facilities!
The DC “corrupt-o-crats”, as Michelle identifies them, and those assaulting the Constitution and attacking and eliminating our Judeo-Christian foundational principles and values are now fully in-charge! It is disturbing that we allow Congress and the BHO Adm Advisers to “talk down” to us and, like McCaskill, belittle us!
Kagan will NOW preside over the SC when the President sues our fellow American citizens living in AZ and when the CA Prop 8 Protection of Marriage cases reach the Supreme Court!
McCaskill should know that the vast majority of Missourians in 2011 will experience a minimum 50% increase in taxes – from 10% to 15% to start, and that does NOT include the HealthCare’s additional costs (taxes). One will affect every kid, vet, elderly and permanently or short term disabled citizen who will pay MORE for medical devices and critical medical equipment!
Now, I have developed an aversion to the voices of BHO, Pelosi, Reid, Holder, Axelrod and the list goes on!
After working so hard to pass Prop C here in Missouri, the only hope left is IF other states take up the fight against ObamaCare and against Illegal Immigration!
You must become involved and encourage othrs to work HARDER to protect STATES’ RIGHTS and FREEDOM and LIBERTY as the “Original Intent” of our CONSTITUTION! jb
When you listen to Obamacare fools, the Obama Mob Rules.
Vote out incumbents in November and start anew.
Someone needs to dig up the video from that town hall meeting last summer where Claire asks the audience, “You don’t trust me?”, and was answered with an overwhelming “NO!”
Ah, here it is!
Why people continue to elect this kind of condescending filth over and over is beyond my understanding.
Here in SC, we have the same issue with Miss Lindsey. That one should be tarred and feathered.
Another great question for Obo’s head cheerleader is “If this crap is sooo good, Claire, why did you politicians all decide to opt yourselves out?” We got fed a batch of bull when you ran as a centrist and got the Michael J Fox will be cured by stem cell research heart tugging horsecrap paid for by one company in Kansas City who to date hasn’t made Mike stop shaking, or superman rise.
The condescension of dems knows no bounds. The arrogance is sickening. They will pay for this very soon.
Isn’t she the one that saw global warming from a plane?????