Tag Archives: Claire McCaskill

Claims Failed $787 Billion Stimulus Debacle Was “Wildly Successful” It’s been nearly two-and-a-half years since U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and President Barack Obama rammed their $787 billion stimulus into law, promising it would create jobs and projecting that it would hold national unemployment below 8 percent.  But today, national unemployment stands at 9.2 percent, and has remained above 8 percent for 29 consecutive months.  Still, McCaskill calls the debacle “wildly successful.” It’s also been more than a year-and-a-half since Americans read headlines like “White House Plans ‘Very Hard Pivot To Jobs’ Next Month.”  But today, with headlines still reading “DEMS PLAN PIVOT TO JOBS,” CNN reports that “jobs recovery slowed for a third month in a row.”  Still, rather than acknowledge that her policies have failed to create promised jobs while driving our national debt past $14.3 trillion, McCaskill is standing with President Obama in demanding that Missourians foot…

Stands Against House Republican Proposal, While Ignoring Debt Limit History In yet another sign that she’s prepared to put the re-election efforts of herself and President Obama, ahead of avoiding the federal government defaulting on its debt for the first time in U.S. history, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) joined with her liberal party leaders last night in signing a letter announcing her firm opposition to the two-step plan offered by House Speaker John Boehner which will be voted on by the House later today. In her letter, McCaskill joined with Democrat leaders Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer in claiming that an initial six-month extension, as opposed to the two year extension sought by President Obama, would put America at risk.  Notably, the Boehner bill has the strong support and endorsement of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce.  Ignoring that, McCaskill and her fellow Democrats write, “A short-term extension like the…

Previous Claims Did Not Tell Whole Story, Still Refuses To Take Responsibility After claiming for ten days that she had failed to disclose – for five years – 143 campaign contributions totaling $276,985.46, U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) campaign now admits that the number of undisclosed donors is actually much higher.  In other words, they have confirmed exactly what Republicans have been saying. As the Springfield News-Leader reported this morning: The GOP’s main issue is that news reports said the changes involved just 143 new donors. But she reported $245,000 in un-itemized contributions, which are supposed to be donations of less than $200. That means that money came from at least 1,200 people.  A spokeswoman said the 143 number referred to the number of people who donated more than $200 in the past five years — and it did not include those un-itemized donors. But that’s not what McCaskill’s operatives…

Was For A Balanced Budget Before She Was Against It As a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, Democrat Claire McCaskill (D-MO) routinely preached the importance of fiscal responsibility, and even said just weeks ago that it “would be great” to have a balanced budget amendment in Washington. But today, McCaskill voted with her Washington party bosses against even considering a measure to balance the federal budget while cutting runaway spending now and capping Washington’s spending in the future – just the latest in a long pattern of McCaskill putting her liberal Washington agenda ahead of keeping her promises to Missourians. In fact, it’s been 814 days since McCaskill and her fellow Senate Democrats have proposed any federal budget, much less the balanced budget McCaskill claimed to support. “Sadly, it’s not surprising that Senator McCaskill would flip-flop on what she said just weeks ago, and vote against even considering a…

In yet other indication of how harmful liberal Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and President Barack Obama’s massive health care overhaul is to middle-class Missourians, Washington newspaper The Hill reports today that one of the law’s major provisions is poised to slam families with higher insurance costs: A major provision of the healthcare reform law designed to prevent businesses from dropping coverage for their workers could inadvertently leave families without access to subsidized health insurance. The problem is a huge headache for the Obama administration and Democrats, because it could leave families unable to buy affordable health insurance when the healthcare law requires that everyone be insured starting in 2014. Some of the administration’s closest allies on healthcare reform warn this could dramatically undercut support for the law, which is already unpopular with many voters and contributed to Democrats losing the House in the 2010 midterm elections. “Claire McCaskill ignored the…

As she attempts to distract Missourians from her growing list of ethics problems – including her exposure as a tax cheat and the recent revelation by Washington reporters that she failed to report nearly $277,000 in campaign contributions for five years – Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill is also hoping voters will simply forget her Washington record, continuing her revisionist posturing on the debt ceiling debate as she sides with President Barack Obama’s calls for more deficit spending, higher debt and job-killing tax hikes. Notably, McCaskill herself voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2007 – when the national debt stood at $9 trillion – attributing her “no” vote to a desire to curb Washington’s spending.  Not surprisingly, her enthusiasm for fiscal responsibility was short lived, and she spent the next several years rubberstamping President Obama’s reckless deficit spending, including the failed $787 billion stimulus and multi-trillion-dollar health care overhaul. Now,…

Now Admits Failure To List Flights On Campaign Finance Reports Less than four months ago – after it was revealed that liberal U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) had improperly billed taxpayers for political travel on her private plane while also failing to pay more than $300,000 in taxes on that aircraft – the embattled incumbent gave voters the impression that there were no other sordid details yet to emerge and even patted herself on the back for, as she put it, having “got the problem fixed very quickly.” But as the St. Louis Beacon reported last Friday evening, McCaskill is now changing her story once again, scrambling to amend her campaign finance reports – some going back years – to account for flights she took on her personal aircraft which previously “had not been listed at all”: …even her campaign staff acknowledges that more attention may be paid to dozens…

Says Republican Leader Has “Lost His Mind” For Opposing Her Job-Killing Tax Hikes, Fighting For Balanced Budget She Repeatedly Promised To Support As a candidate for U.S. Senate in 2006, Democrat Claire McCaskill promised Missourians she would support a balanced budget in Washington – even saying just two weeks ago that it “would be great” to have a federal Balanced Budget Amendment.  Instead, it’s been 806 days since McCaskill and her fellow Senate Democrats passed any federal budget, much less a balanced budget. But rather than take responsibility for her broken promises and failure to perform this basic job function, McCaskill is opening the door to a trillion-dollar job-killing tax hike and resorting to personal attacks – saying on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” today that raising taxes on families and job creators could give the federal government “easily $1 trillion over the next ten years, and probably multiples of that… for…

Washington Post Writer Pulls Back Curtain On Senate Democrats Putting Politics Ahead Of Passing Bipartisan Reforms For those who have been following the ongoing debt ceiling negotiations and questioned the difficulty of both parties reaching a bipartisan agreement, a new report by a left-leaning blogger for the Washington Post is instructive. The Post’s Greg Sargent reports that Senate Democrat campaign strategists who are overseeing U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s (D-MO) re-election bid have concluded that passing much-needed Medicare reforms will squander their efforts to score political points by scaring Missouri seniors. This comes despite even President Obama making clear that everything should be on the table to start reining-in our out-of-control federal debt. Top Democrats in charge of keeping the Senate in Dem hands and maintaining the political health of the party — DSCC chair Patty Murray and messaging chief Chuck Schumer — have privately expressed frustration that deep Medicare cuts…

800 Days With No Budget & Now 9.2 Percent Unemployment It’s now been a full 800 days since U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) and her fellow Democrats who run the U.S. Senate have passed a federal budget.  In fact, in the current Congress, Senate Democrats haven’t even proposed a budget, with published reports on Capitol Hill today saying that they’re still “discussing” it. In the meantime, the Labor Department reports today that unemployment has now climbed to 9.2 percent – a post World War II record of 29 straight months of at least 8 percent unemployment – while the federal debt continues to climb past $14.3 trillion. “These sobering numbers serve as yet another reminder that Missouri simply can’t afford another six years of Claire McCaskill’s liberal tax-and-spend agenda,” said National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) spokesman Chris Bond  What They’re Saying About Today’s Jobs Report…. The Hill’s Sam Youngman: “Wow….