Today on KMOX, I talked to Senator Claire McCaskill about her recent trip to Baghdad, where she looked into abuse and extortion by private contractors (a theme we’ve discussed often, including last year’s screening of “Iraq for Sale”). Audio Related: Sen. McCaskill appeared on Lou Dobbs tonight and declared she will vote against cloture on […]

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By Kelly McCormack Congressional Websites: The Bright, Bland and Bizarre (excerpt) “House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) has an attention-grabbing website. The site combines design elements in burgundy, white and blue, with graphics of gas pumps, money and the House floor. There are more than 20 photos in his gallery, which show the minority whip […]

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Our favorite Republican imitator Claire McCaskill is once again straddling the fence. After a brief trip to Iraq she comes back with virtually no position but a whole lot of rhetoric.

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Hate her or love her, freshman Senator Claire McCaskill has had an impressive six months as a member of the “world’s most deliberative body.” Defeating a Republican incumbent in a red leaning state – albeit in a bad year for Republicans – McCaskill is clearly demonstrating that she understands that in order to keep her […]

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Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill, just off her confusing vote against the no brainer Cornyn Amendment, casts the NAY vote when it appears to count most along with Sens. Tester and Webb and Boxer. Republican Senators Lott and Kyl and our own Kit Bond tell their fearless leader to take a hike. I’m telling you, Bull […]

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Our favorite Democrat (who’s racking up that Republican voting record for her next election) is explaining one of her recent conservative votes: “I think there was a realization that until we get enough votes to overcome the president, all that we would be doing is risking the men and women on the ground not getting […]

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The Missouri Political News Service has learned that the leader of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., will be campaigning tomorrow in Kansas City for Kay Cronkite Waldo Barnes. After the Barnes’ campaign bumbled and stumbled out of the gate last week, Democratic party leaders – who have targeted Missouri’s […]

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First she votes for Sen. David Vitter’s conservative amendment to end the new immigration bill’s amnesty clause. Then she supports the new Iraq funding bill that other Democrats called “a setback” I almost began to feel like our great state had two Republicans in the Senate, but we don’t. We have one Republican and one […]

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The “new Ku Klux Klan” or the Council of Conservative Citizens – St. Louis chapter, supports Sen. McCaskill’s stance on the pending immigration legislation in the Senate. From their blog: “If she does vote against it, and her votes are faithfully and consistently anti-immigration for the rest of her term, I will vote for her […]

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From Catholic Sensibility: My state’s woman senator, fresh from being invitation-stiffed by Archbishop Burke, is feeling the heat from another quarter. What, Claire McCaskill voted against ERA2, now dubbed WEA, for Women’s Equality Amendment? Not at all. Apparently, there’s some fuss because she won’t sign on as one of three million co-…I mean 23 other […]

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