Tag Archives: Claire McCaskill

It’s Been 1,000 Days Since McCaskill & Her Democrat Colleagues Have Passed A Budget  It’s been 1,000 days since liberal United States Senator Claire McCaskill and her Democrat colleagues who control the Senate have passed a budget and today the National Republican Senatorial Committee has unveiled a new web video reminding Missourians that McCaskill has failed to perform the most basic function of a U.S. Senator. Additionally, the web ad highlights the fact that during her bid for the U.S. Senate, McCaskill campaigned against the reckless spending in Washington and expressed a strong commitment to restoring fiscal discipline to our country, which she has failed to uphold. CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE NRSC’S LATEST WEB VIDEO Notably, it only took 981 days to build the Gateway Arch in St. Louis yet McCaskill still needs more time to pass a budget that will rein in her reckless spending habits that are…

Claims To Oppose Cap-And-Trade After Voting For It, While Continuing Silence On Obama EPA’s Harmful Policies In a press release from her official office yesterday, Senator Claire McCaskill announced that she’s embarking on a statewide “energy tour” beginning with an event today at the Ralls County Electric Cooperative in New London, and remarkably, said further, “McCaskill bucked her own party in recent years, opposing the failed ‘Cap & Trade’ energy policies proposed in Congress.” There’s just one big problem with that statement – it’s simply not true. In fact, when a cap-and-trade bill sponsored by California’s ultra-liberal Senator Barbara Boxer came before the Senate for a vote in 2008, McCaskill stood with Boxer and voted to move it forward.  Fortunately, Senate Republicans, and not Senator McCaskill, ultimately blocked this disastrous bill from moving forward any further. “It’s clear that Senator McCaskill is desperate to distract Missourians from her very liberal…

Last Thursday, a bipartisan group of Senators rejected Claire McCaskill’s payroll tax relief extension, because this temporary tax cut slapped a permanent tax hike on small business owners across the Show-Me State. Unfortunately, McCaskill remains stubbornly committed to raising taxes, because today she and her party offered a “revised” payroll tax cut extension, but again it hits Missouri’s job creators with a massive tax increase. This all comes on the heels of a letter from virtually every major business organization – including the Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Businesses – warning McCaskill and her Senate Democrat colleagues that any tax increase would adversely impact job growth. As the Associated Press reports: “A Democratic aide also says the Democrats’ revamped payroll tax cut plan will contain a modified set of proposals to offset its cost to the Treasury. It will retain a tax on income exceeding $1…

Senate Democrats Sought $1.3 Trillion In New Tax Hikes & $300 Billion In New Stimulus Spending, Instead of Serious Spending Cut Proposals In response to this evening’s announcement by the deficit reduction Super Committee that they were unable to reach any bipartisan agreement , the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) said the failure of leadership by Senate Democrats, and their addiction to higher taxes and more wasteful Washington spending, will be a defining issue in next year’s U.S. Senate campaign in Missouri. “After years of reckless government spending, unemployment mired at 9 percent and a $15 trillion debt that grows daily, the negotiations of the last few weeks have been a remarkable commentary on the misplaced priorities of Claire McCaskill and her fellow liberal Democrats. “Voters should rightfully wonder why Senator McCaskill and her fellow Democrats didn’t show the same zeal for actually solving our nation’s problems as they did…

Top Court Will Judge Obama-McCaskill Mandate That 71 Percent Of Voters Rejected At Polls Last Year As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on President Barack Obama and Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) massive health care overhaul, Missouri voters are reminded that McCaskill cast the deciding 60th vote to ram the measure, known as ObamaCare, into law. The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear arguments next March over President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul – a case that could shake the political landscape just as voters are about to decide if Obama deserves another term. The decision to hear arguments in the spring allows plenty of time for a decision in late June, just over four months before Election Day. This sets up an election-year showdown over the White House’s main domestic policy achievement. The justices announced they will hear more than five hours…

Votes For Yet Another Massive Stimulus Bill, Despite Opposition From Major Small-Business Groups Even as virtually every major small-business group expressed their concern that a new, permanent tax on America’s job creators would “significantly impair” job creation, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) once again voted in lockstep with President Obama today in support of yet another round of massive government stimulus spending. “Claire McCaskill has never met one of President Obama’s big government spending bills that she didn’t like, and today’s vote is just another example of her reckless spending record,” National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond said today.  “It also represents a defining difference in next year’s election – Claire McCaskill believes it’s the federal government that creates jobs, through higher taxes and more debt, while Republicans believe government should get its foot off the backs of America’s small businesses so that they can create jobs and grow…

In 2009, liberal United States Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) told Missourians that she would be supporting President Barack Obama’s $825 billion stimulus, because it was a “jobs” bill that would help repair America’s aging roads and bridges.  After the bill passed the House of Representatives, it was revealed that, in fact, only 5 percent of the so-called “stimulus” was spent on infrastructure.  A few months later, it was revealed that billions of dollars were given to tax cheats and millions of dollars were spent in fictitious congressional districts, like a $617,848 project in Missouri’s non-existent “14th Congressional District.” Despite the fact that it’s been widely accepted that the first stimulus was a boondoggle that never lived up to McCaskill and Obama’s promises, McCaskill insists it was “wildly successful,” and is preparing to repeat the same expensive mistake as Democrats in the Senate will be voting on a $50 billion “infrastructure”…

Weeks After Claiming To Be “Middle Class,” Out-Of-Touch McCaskill Sells Private Plane For $1.9 Million, Complains She “Suffered A Loss” Just a few weeks after telling Politico that she “would be considered middle class” – and after improperly charging taxpayers for political travel and failing to pay more than $300,000 in taxes on her private aircraft – liberal Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) has sold what she calls “the damn plane” for the tidy sum of $1.9 million.  Further underscoring how out-of-touch McCaskill is with normal Missourians, she complained through her spokesman that she “suffered a loss.” As McCaskill reels from her financial misfortune, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) today launched a new web ad urging Missourians – who continue to suffer from McCaskill and President Obama’s failed economic agenda – to contact their senior Senator and let her know that they “feel her pain” at selling her used private…

More Bad News For McCaskill As ObamaCare Approval Hits An All-Time Low As liberal Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) struggles to defend her decision to cast the deciding vote in favor of ObamaCare, this month’s Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows that both McCaskill and President Obama have even greater reason to fear Missouri voters at the polls next year: their 2,700 page, $2.5 trillion health care law is less popular than ever. The poll’s summary and toplines show a bleak picture for McCaskill, Obama, and their fellow Washington Democrats: Overall favorability of the law stands at 34%, an all-time low; The percentage of very favorable support stands at 12%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think they personally will be better off due to the law stands at a mere 18%, an all-time low; The percentage of respondents who think the country as a whole will…