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December, 2009 | Missouri Political News Service

Entries from December 2009

Russ Carnahan: “Now Is Our Time” While 58% Opposed to Health Care Plan

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

From Rasmussen Reports: “Many have questioned whether those who favor or oppose the health care plan in Congress really know what’s in it. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey suggests that they have a decent understanding of the bill and that voter attitudes towards the legislation have hardened.” Read more… Related: Rasmussen Reports: 78% […]

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Tags: Healthcare

More Memorable Quotes From a Missouri Pol

December 30th, 2009 · 8 Comments

On Chad Livengood’s Political Notebook a few days ago, he provided us some memorable quotes from this year from a few of Missouri’s politicians. They were good. But how could he have missed these gems that consistently come from Congressman Cleaver’s lips like… “If there is repression in Cuba we didn’t see it.” And… “Did […]

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Tags: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver

MOGOP: Jay Nixon Must Come Clean on Ethics; 5 Questions for Jay Nixon

December 30th, 2009 · No Comments

“If Jay Nixon wants to get serious about ethics reform, he first needs to come clean about his own ethics problems that have marred his first year in office. By turning a blind eye to serious transgressions by his staff—including cover-ups and allegations of bribery—Jay Nixon has fostered a culture of corruption inside the Governor’s […]

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Tags: Jay Nixon

E. Coli Gate Rears it’s Dirty, Nasty, & Trifling Head Again

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

The Source weighs in on Dave “Suck Ass” Cantanese’s interview with Governor Nixon and his ever tactful avoidance of taking responsibility for “Dirty Watergate.” Let us get this straight: One of his appointees (Joe Bindbeutel) helped conceal a health risk at the Lake of the Ozarks, disingenuously assumed the role of a scapegoat and was […]

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Tags: Jay Nixon

Video: Rep. Carnahan: How to Fight the Flu

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

He cares! And we thought the congressman only thought of us as a bunch of haters  who are “attacking our representative form of government” because we oppose Obamacare. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/NCuWcdab16Y” width=”325″ height=”250″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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Tags: Rep. Russ Carnahan · Videos

“One Term Claire” Sells Out

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Graphic H/T: Gateway Pundit After Monday’s early morning cloture vote on Obamacare, Sen. McCaskill effectively put her Senate seat up for grabs in 2012. The moderate facade she’s been perpetrating against Missourians these last four years is finally exposed. She even had us (here and here) believing that she may be a moderate, not by […]

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Tags: Senator McCaskill

Why Won’t Tommy Sowers File His Personal Paperwork? Is He Hiding Something?

December 22nd, 2009 · No Comments

Sowers in New York City with the Dalai Lama during a recent fundraising trip Tommy Sowers, the Rolla Democrat who is challenging Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson in Missouri’s Eighth District, filed the paperwork for his candidacy well over a month ago but has not yet filed his personal financial disclosure. This is very strange, as […]

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57% of Americans Against Democrats’ Healthcare Plan; Cong. Carnahan Calls Them ‘Attackers of Our Representative Form of Govt’

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments

 Congressman Carnahan proudly holding up the nearly 2,000 page healthcare bill If the planet is not heating up, we know one thing that is: President Obama and the Democratic Congress’ healthcare plan. According to the latest Rasmussen Poll, (FiredUp Missouri’s second favorite polling firm) 57% of Americans agree with Dr. Howard Dean and the Republicans […]

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Tags: Healthcare · Rep. Russ Carnahan

Guess Who’s in Copen(hah)gen?

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Hat tip:starnews [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/vmtklYMuXAM” width=”325″ height=”250″ wmode=”transparent” /] We’ve learned that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver – a member of the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming- is Copen(hah)gen this week attempting to save us all from global warming. Isn’t it ironic that a preacher has so wholeheartedly embraced the liberal’s pseudo religion? Related: NPR: […]

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Tags: Rep. Emanuel Cleaver

Video: “Hot Rod” Jetton’s Deviant Dating Service

December 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Since his political career and business are probably over, we’ve got a suggestion for a new business for Rod – once he gets out of prison in a year or two. [kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Ut6l5shxIAI” width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /]

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Tags: Spkr. Jetton · Videos