Transparent Posturing Has Zero Credibility After 825+ Days Without Any Budget

Over the last several years in Washington, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has rubberstamped trillions of dollars of new federal spending – including President Barack Obama’s failed $787 billion stimulus, and ObamaCare, which increases our federal deficits by $260 billion through 2019 – as she helped drive our national debt past its $14.3 trillion limit.

Notably, despite campaigning on support for a balanced federal budget, it’s been more than 825 days since McCaskill and her fellow Senate Democrats have passed any budget at all – much less a balanced budget. In fact, McCaskill voted just two weeks ago against even considering a balanced budget amendment in the U.S. Senate.

But today McCaskill engaged in yet another desperate attempt to save her political career after rubber-stamping President Obama’s unpopular agenda and being exposed as a tax cheat, as she joined with other vulnerable Democrats facing tough 2012 reelection battles in signing on to a watered-down version of the very same balanced budget proposal she voted against on July 22, 2011.

“It’s hard to imagine anyone taking Claire McCaskill seriously given that she spent the last several years rubber-stamping President Obama’s reckless spending, she voted just two weeks ago against even considering a balanced budget, and it’s been more than 825 days since she and her fellow Democrats passed any budget at all,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond.  “If McCaskill thinks Missourians have forgotten that she’s spent her time in Washington racking up huge debts and opposing balanced budgets, she’s sorely mistaken.”