Senator McCaskill continues to walk that perilous tight rope between being a progressive/liberal voting with her out of touch party in Washington D.C. (her true self) and the moderate charade she puts on to get elected in Missouri. Last week she was a moderate:
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) made the simple and seemingly non-controversial statement that she supports hearings for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch. “We should have a full confirmation hearing process and a vote on ANY nominee for the Supreme Court,” she tweeted just hours before the nomination was announced. Read more…
And this week she’s a liberal/progressive:
“As a former prosecutor, I know the power and essence of the position of Attorney General is deciding who and what to prosecute, and where to put the priorities and resources of the massive power of federal law enforcement. Sen. Sessions’ vote against the Violence Against Women Act, and his vote for torture tactics, are a window into how he would use that power. Therefore, I cannot support his confirmation.”
The Democratic Party’s “rising star”, former Missouri secretary of state Jason Kander, is continuing to increase his national profile after his solid defeat by Senator Roy Blunt last November. Fresh after accusing the man he beat four years ago of“the most egregious and transparent act of voter intimidation the state has seen in decades, Kander took his dog and pony show to national television and was thoroughly owned by a female conservative. Just like the elitists most Democrats are, Mr. Kander wrongly assumed Ms. Lahren was as misinformed and uninformed as most rank and file Democrats.
Blaze.com:
Kander chimed in to say that conservatives and Republicans “used the people who died [at Benghazi] as political chess pieces for quite a few years” in order to grill Clinton, who at the time the attack happened, was thought to be the most likely person to become the 2016 Democratic presidential nominee. Then Kander challenged Lahren to name the four Americans who died at the Benghazi compound, telling Lahren: “You don’t know.” But Lahren did know and she made sure Kander understood. “Chris Stevens, Glen Doherty, Tyrone Woods and Sean Smith,” Lahren boldly proclaimed straight to Kander’s face. Read more…
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver is holding a town hall meeting this Saturday regarding the recent immigration executive orders signed by President Trump. A panel of immigration lawyers and experts from progressively aligned local and national organizations will take questions from the audience.
“Families should not be out there lost to the wind. They want to know what to do, where to turn. They want to know answers. I’m going to try and provide that for them. Please come out to Manual Tech with your concerns on Saturday. We may not be able to undo what President Trump has done, but we can help you find answers about what to do next.”
We’ve never understood how Rep. Cleaver and his fellow Congressional Black Caucus members can advocate for more immigration since it does nothing but take entry level jobs away from their very constituents. Constituents who have actually lost ground economically during the Obama Administration. Noted Black conservative and radio host Larry Elder writes:
After six years, the report card is in. The grades are not pretty. By every key economic measurement, blacks are worse off under Obama. In some cases, far worse off. What about poverty? In 2009, when Obama took office, the black poverty rate was 25.8 percent. As of 2014, according to Pew Research Center, the black poverty rate was 27.2 percent. What about income? CNNMoney says, “Minority households’ median income fell 9 percent between 2010 and 2013, compared to a drop of only 1 percent for whites.” The Financial Times wrote last October: “Since 2009, median non-white household income has dropped by almost a 10th to $33,000 a year, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve’s survey of consumer finances. As a whole, median incomes fell by 5 percent. But by the more telling measure of net wealth — assets minus liabilities — the numbers offer a more troubling story.”
What about net worth and the black-white “wealth gap”? The Financial Times said: “The median non-white family today has a net worth of just $18,100 — almost a fifth lower than it was when Mr. Obama took office. White median wealth, on the other hand, has inched up by 1 percent to $142,000. In 2009, white households were seven times richer than their black counterparts. That gap is now eightfold. Both in relative and absolute terms, blacks are doing worse under Mr. Obama.” Remember, these numbers apply to all “non-whites.” For blacks, it’s worse. Read more…
Just like in 2012, Claire McCaskill will once again be one of the most vulnerable members of the senate up for re-election. The self described moderate in an increasingly red state has been shoring up those moderate credentials by saying she supports a “full confirmation process” for President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. But shilling against Obamacare’s repeal may blunt that a bit.
Two weeks after his abrupt retirement as a full-time driver in NASCAR, Carl Edwards on Wednesday would not rule out a potential U.S. Senate campaign in his home state of Missouri next year. Terry Smith, a political-science professor at Columbia College, speculated in a Wednesday piece for KBIA’s Talking Politics that Edwards will challenge Sen. Claire McCaskill, a Democrat whose second term expires in 2018. Edwards didn’t exactly rule it out when reached by the Associated Press. “I believe firmly in the principles that the U.S. was founded upon,” he texted to AP. “If I could help, I definitely would consider it.” Read more…
“Because there is no replace, I vote no.” — Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo
The Senate last night began the process of putting the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare, out of its misery and on to the dust bin of history of failed liberal ideas. Of course “moderate” Senator Clair McCaskill was a no vote. Senator McCaskill – who was for the Obama mandate before she was against it – told us that Obamacare will “will bring down healthcare costs and lower the deficit.” Instead, Obamacare has increased healthcare premiums by an average of 25%. Now that Obamacare has failed, we’re afraid there will now be a clamor for national healthcare like that advocated by former Congressman Russ Carnahan back in 2009:
Critics of this controversial painting are not questioning its constitutionality. What they are questioning is its appropriateness and if this work of art spurs healing or just more divisiveness. Congressman Clay’s office released this statement:
In America we don’t arrest artwork. As the Member who sponsored the art work at issue and a Member who is a First Amendment constitutional scholar, we write to express our grave concern that you may follow up on an act of vigilante censorship in the House of Representatives by taking formal steps to remove a painting by St. Louis Cardinal Ritter College Prep High School Senior David Pulphus from display on a wall in the tunnel between the Cannon House Office Building and the Capitol.
The young man’s painting depicts a scene involving police officers pointing their guns at an African-American man, with the two officers and the African-American man all appearing to have animal-like facial features. The painting appears to show protesters in the background. We believe that removing this work – which has been on display for six months as one of more than 400 winning high school entries selected from each congressional district through the annual Congressional Art Competition – would be a violation of First Amendment free speech rights. Read more…
The liberals, who claim they are the most tolerant and who constantly remind the rest of us that we should “come together” view this incident as “childish and weird.”
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are supposed to be the grownups in the room, but a spat over a high school student’s painting is revealing their childish tendencies. Read more…
The depicting of police officer as pigs and other animals is probably not childish to the sister of this police officer:
As the sister of a police officer, who lays his life on the line everyday, it saddens me to see our congressman supporting such a distasteful, offensive, and disgusting depiction of law enforcement officers. My brother and his fellow police officers work hard to serve and protect Congressman Clay as well as all of those in the communities they serve. What a tragedy to see such animosity represented, which is clearly not a true or accurate depiction of the motivations and feelings of most police officers, and certainly not something to be publicly celebrated. Read more…
Former Democratic Governor Jay Nixon made this startling comment back in 2009 on C-SPAN when asked about President Obama’s then proposed $1 trillion dollar failed stimulus plan. It’s not surprising this comment came from a Democratic governor and its no surprise that Kansas City and St. Louis, with its Democratic mayors, are is such bad shape.
Marc Joffe, Director of Policy Research for the California Policy Center, has rated the largest 116 U.S. cities according to their financial health and published the ratings in The Fiscal Times website. Missouri’s appearances on the list are not a source of pride. The study’s methodology rates five things: spending, long-term obligations, pension contributions, and changes in local unemployment and property values. Of the 116 cities, Irvine, California, performs the best. New York and Chicago come is 115th and 116th, respectively. Kansas City and St. Louis, with populations much smaller, rank 101st and 112th, respectively…The report showed that Kansas City had the highest debt per capita of ALL the peer cities they considered, including St. Louis, and well over the national average. Read more…
