Oh Dear. Even Hardcore Obama Supporter McCaskill Says Dems Moved "Too Far, Too Fast"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 5:49 AM
You know you’re in trouble when you lose a hardcore supporter like Claire McCaskill.
Obama ally Claire McCaskill today announced that quite possibly democrats moved “too far, too fast” in pushing their radical agenda on the American public.
The Politico reported:
McCaskill said Wednesday morning that the agenda is moving “going too far, too fast” and that it would be a “huge mistake” for Democrats to force a vote on a new bill in the Senate before the new senator from Massachusetts is seated.
“As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,” McCaskill told POLITICO.
At the same time, however, McCaskill defended the administration’s approach, saying the president inherited an economic recession that he couldn’t resolve with “little itty-bitty baby steps.”
“You take the big things we had to do, as related to the economy, and you combine that with the frustration of the American people and a big health care bill that frankly, because it was big and complicated, it lent itself to this almost virulent misinformation that got out there,” McCaskill said. “The more those seeds planted, the more they flourished in that environment, and I think now we’ve got to hunker down and be realistic about what we can accomplish and certainly realize that if we don’t pay attention to what the voters say in Massachusetts, then I think we do so at the peril of our party’s effectiveness.”
McCaskill is a strong supporter of Obamacare even though it is very unpopular in Missouri. Harry Reid did not have to buy her vote when democrats rammed the bill through the US Senate.
Meanwhile… David Axelrod said it was “not an option” to “walk away” from their plans to push ObamaCare through the Congress this morning.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 54 Comments
Tom63010 commented:
Huh, I guess maybe she read PART of the message I sent her last night!
Ladue Pundit commented:
Too late, Claire. We went to your office and were locked out and flipped off.
We went to your townhall at Forest Park CC. You weren’t there, but your aide called us “citizens against health care reform.”
It’s over for the party of slavery, socialism, taxes, abortion, gay marriage, Klansmen in the senate, and lying to our faces.
The Swimmer is turning in his grave. Who’s next?
redrock commented:
CAN YOU HEAR US NOW???
dunces.
You’re next joker.
bill-tb commented:
The progressives went off the rails.
Now we need to really stick it to them in November.
manateespirit commented:
“As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,” McCaskill told POLITICO
OMG. I think I am going to have a stroke. HOW MANY LETTERS/EMAILS have I sent this woman TELLING HER THIS? I believe I have claim for copyright infringement. And what do I get from her?
Form letters…telling me she won’t vote for anything that’s deficit neutral, blah, blah, blah. She knows what is good for us, etc. What a hack. I have a deaf son and he listens better than this woman.
It’s too late, Claire. We know who you are. You are a PROGRESSIVE. And we’re going to progress you right out of office.
down with dems commented:
It’s a shame she’s not up for re-election until 2012.
toomuch!!! commented:
As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,” McCaskill told POLITICO.
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You should have done that soon, McCaskill! The American people have been SCREAMING
at the top of their lungs that we don’t want the Obummer’s socialists policy. Now all of sudden you want to listen. Too late for you and all your Demorat cronies. No matter what you say from now on no one will forget what you and your ilk had and will do to the American people. Never forget~vote these idiots out!!!!
manateespirit commented:
Need to correct #4:
Sorry, she says she won’t vote for anything that’s NOT deficit neutral. Of course, it doesn’t matter if I correct that or not. She will just go where the political wind blows.
Dell commented:
A rather brilliant, after-the-fact, assessment there, Claire!
As has been said many times, and elsewhere in these comments, it’s too late. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. This woman has played an integral role in this “ram job” and she will pay dearly when it’s “her turn” in the barrel.
Bill Mitchell commented:
What BS!
In other words, “We love you all so darned much we just tried to help too much, too quickly!”
No, America DOESN’T WANT YOUR PROGRESSIVE SOCIALISTIC BULLS**T. It doesn’t matter if you feed it to us slow or fast – WE DO NOT WANT IT!
Talk about tone deaf – geesh. These are the same people that mistook 2008 as the electorate moving hard left when in reality, they RAN as moderates. If Obama had run on the same principles by which he has governed, America NEVER would have elected him.
Like Bill Clinton, liberals tell so many lies as matter of habit that to they start to actually believe their own spew.
gucci commented:
hope to get better
gus commented:
Has there ever been a MARXIST that listened to his SUBJECTS?
These people are not PROGRESSIVES, they are MARXISTS/STATISTS.
McAskhole aided and abetted. She is part and parcel and turning STATES EVIDENCE or by TURNING on her former MASTERS doesn’t erase what she did.
STAY THIRSTY MY FRIENDS.
Ladue Pundit commented:
We went to your office, Claire, and we were locked out and flipped off.
We went to your townhall, Claire, but you weren’t there. Your aide called us “people against health care reform.”
It is so over for you.
toomuch!!! commented:
As I said to somebody last night:, everybody needs to get the Washington wax out of their ears and listen and pay attention that people out there believe that we are going too far, too fast,” McCaskill told POLITICO.
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Maybe you should take your own advice. Now wait for the backpeddling to come from every Demorat seeking re-election. Shoulda, woulda, coulda, blah, blah, blah. Never forget! Vote all these Socialist/Commie Demrats and their Republican “friends”(those that sided with Demorats) out of office!
Hedgehog commented:
She’s half right. The message sent last night was that the American people do not like what the Commies are doing, and we will not sit still as they move toward totalitarianism. It’s not that they went too far, too fast. That implies that if they had gone slowly the proles would not have known what was happening. We are tired of crises manufactured to cause chaos, and we are tired of their phony “solutions”, all of which head in the same direction. Claire is “in denial” as the Progs like to say.
golfmann commented:
You’re fired!…
TheScribbler commented:
Looks like the big pay offs that Obama is offering for votes isn’t enough for these people to stay on this sinking ship! They could care less about the American people and what they want. now they are going to say anything to keep their own jobs. Personally, I’m not going to be happy until they ALL pay for even trying to take over our country. Out they go! Reid, you’re next!!
Tom63010 commented:
down with dems # 5
She’s not but the other Missouri seat will be open with Republican Kit Bond’s retirement.
Roy Blunt (R) is running against Robin Carnahan(D) the ACORN darling.
http://www.acorncarnahan.com
Also remember my friend Ed Martin running again Robin’s brother Representative Russ Carnahan.
Both have a brother, Tom, that is trying construct a windmill farm in Missouri. It looks like he will since he just got $90 million dollars from the stimulus.(note I have also seen reports it was $30M)
24thstate.com/2009/12/carnahan-family-gets-big-windfall.html
Please get this family off the public dole!
Ladue Pundit commented:
Boy, having the internet, being able to vote–these things are really putting a crimp in Obama’s gulag!
JR commented:
Claire, I still want to know why you guys closed the American truck plant near St. Louis. I want to know why you closed the largest Dodge dealer in my area, putting some hundred people out of work, and putting a real ding in Dodge sales (you should see all the Dodge Rams in my town – that won’t happen going forward).
down with dems commented:
Plus, she’s really not seen the light… if you read the WHOLE article, you’ll stumble across this little gem:
“McCaskill said “one alternative” would be for the House to accept the Senate’s health care bill with no changes, but she strongly rejected the idea of trying to pass a revised bill through the Senate before Brown arrives in Washington — and takes away the Democrats’ 60th vote.”
So what she’s saying is there shouldn’t be any funny business in the Senate until Brown is seated, **BUT** if the House wants to pass the Senate’s bill as-is then that would be no problem since that wouldn’t involve circumventing Brown, even though Americans hate the Senate bill too.
SEL commented:
TOO LATE CLAIRE, You should have removed the wax from your ears a long time ago.
down with dems commented:
Tom63010 #14
Roy Blunt (R) is running against Robin Carnahan(D) the ACORN darling.
http://www.acorncarnahan.com
Also remember my friend Ed Martin running again Robin’s brother Representative Russ Carnahan.
Thanks for pointing those out. I’ve never ever volunteered for a political campaign, but that’s going to change in order to get rid of the Carnahans and McCaskill.
BertoGem commented:
Too far? Definitely!
Too fast? What difference does it make, in the long run, if we go off the cliff with our foot on the accelerator or the brake? We’re still dead.
Like concentration camp victims, we’re being pushed in a direction we don’t want to go. Now that we’ve got our hands on the prison guard’s gun we republicans (lower case) and constitutionalists need to wrest it out of his/her hand, force him/her into the cell and lock the door forever.
Seize the initiative!
Scott commented:
I wrote her two letters and an email about this healthcare fiasco. She failed to acknowledge any of them. I also tried to phone her D.C. office but I couldn’t get through. Ssomeone alleged she kept the voicemailbox full so she didn’t have to take constituent calls. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I can’t rule it out.
I’m going to put all my energy into defeating her in 2012. She’s an arrogant, unresponsive, elitist pig in my book.
Tom63010 commented:
down with dems #19
OK, I’m going to be removed from my Ed Martin for Congress volunteer status!
Ed’s Web Site is:
http://edmartinforcongress.com/
He is also on Facebook and Twitter!
Slappy commented:
manateespirit
January 20th, 2010 | 10:15 am | #6
Sorry, she says she won’t vote for anything that’s NOT deficit neutral.
I like when Democrats disingenuously use that “deficit neutral” pledge for any plan, such as the health care plan, then they grasp onto some analysis from the CBO or some other source that claims it’s deficit neutral, which is always based on ridiculous assumptions and proposed cuts to other areas that will never happen. They often get away with it because there are too many gullible people, people that don’t have the time or inclination to investigate all the details about the “deficit neutral” claim, or people that simply aren’t informed or educated enough to analyze the claim even if they have the details.
See, Democrats think so little of the opinions and intellect of the people they represent — which are the same people they claim to care so much about — that they will lie or at least obscure the truth to advance their agenda to the detriment of the country. Thankfully, enough people figured this out in Massachusetts before they went to the polls yesterday.
Taken For Action commented:
“This is not the end. It’s not even the beginning of the end. But it is the end of the beginning.”
- Winston Churchill
dakotas5 commented:
She’s finally admitting she’s a progressive instead of a bluedog conservative democrat.
ebayer commented:
Here’s a flash for you Claire:
Too little,too late.
You’ve already shown your true colors and you obviously just go where the wind blows.
You think the tide is turning and you want to go with it…sorry.
“the president inherited an economic recession that he couldn’t resolve with “little itty-bitty baby steps.”
So he adds to it and makes it worse?And you think that’s helping?
You’re so clueless Claire,but then it doesn’t matter as long as you tow the party line right?
mike commented:
Running to the middle now will not help in 2012
naturalfake commented:
Great victory!
What happens next?
It depends on who holds:
The Whip Hand
Moright commented:
Couldn’t agree more with all the comments here. Sounds like many of us have experienced (or not -lol!) Claire’s office firsthand. It’s clear they are not going to stop pursuing their agenda, but rather double down on: 1) Sweet moderate words to disguise the agenda; 2) ACORN tactics and “get out the vote” efforts. They are not going to “get it” or listen, they can only be defeated. Claire and Carnahan have made this clear.
Tony Bones commented:
Too little, too late, Claire;
“never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”
C’mon 2012
manateespirit commented:
Slappy,
You are right. She thinks we don’t know what’s going on and what they are really saying. But, of course, many of us are “teabaggers” and drive pick up trucks, so we can’t grasp nuances or understand inferences, right?
And Gus, #9, I believe progressives = marxists/statists. To me, they are one in the same.
Moright commented:
Hey Scott, didn’t you see the YouTube of Claire taking phone calls personally? See she didn’t actually have to take calls, just appear to take calls. Don’t you just love social media? Twittering, youtubing, facebooking – all message baby. You don’t have to actually mix with the peasants -isn’t it awesome?
reliapundit commented:
claire got the message from messagechusetts!
Robert commented:
We don’t need these egotists to impose their version of utopia on us. We don’t need them to “solve our problems”. If they would get in their place the problems would disappear, since it is they (both parties) who cause the worst of it.
Right now they have commandeered all the money and jobs and they want more. They should take a month off every month.
Opus #6 commented:
Last time I checked, Axelrod only has one vote, like the rest of us Americans.
BigJ commented:
Ha! The DemocRATS are abandoning the sinking S.S. Hopenchange.
Chip Bennett commented:
Mene Mene Tekel Parsin
That’s not “Washington Wax”, Claire; it’s ingrained liberalism.
And it can’t be pulled from your ears; it must be rooted out – which is exactly what we will do for you in 2012.
ex Dem commented:
Claire, Bahy and all the dems backtracking today certainly didn’t think they were going to far when they cast their vote for healthcare, crap and trade, porkulus
Claire is a moron of epic proportion and Bayh is a smooth liar. He had no problem with the leftists running things when HE voted for healthhcare. Lyingthrough their teeth to get re-elected.
Look at their actions, not their words. It didn’t fool a soul in Mass. it doesn’t fool a soul in their own homestate. You are getting the boot but good Claire, Evan and your cohorts
troll b gone commented:
Anyone notice how silent the trolls are today on non lefty sites?
They have no idea what to do. there was never a memo on talking points emailed out if Brown should win. They sit by the computer waiting for Zero to email them and give them marching orders. Give it a day and watch, the trolls will have the exact same tactic site to site. Whatever Axelrod and Soro’s can put together on the fly
waicool commented:
Claire McCaskill has a penchant for saying what she believes her constituents want to hear while she behaves just like a party-line dem, typically voting the opposite of what she says. Missouri has been fooled by this dishonest pattern. She will be ousted when she comes up for reelection. The folks I speak with, many of them business minded dems, have already contacted Claire to let her know she is out of favor. The only strategy she has left is to hide behind her party if they decide to protect her and allow her to vote against the leftist party line. It won’t matter much, Missouri voters are wise to Claire’s deceptions. The sea-change has begun.
Tom63010 commented:
She preaches the fiscal conservative line. They allow her to vote that way when they don’t need her vote. Sort of like Barack Obama voting present in the Illinois Senate. When Health Care came along they needed every single vote so she had to vot for it.
The responses I got from her full of long rambling double talk how it was deficit neutral.
It collects money for four years and it still has almost a trillion dollar deficit in ten years, yeah real creative bookkeeping and still a huge deficit.
Espresso Logic _ The 6th Sense commented:
Seeya Claire! Don’t let the door hit you in the a$$ on yer way out!
I see stupid people.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Politicians are sociopaths. They will always find ways to survive by pretending to change their stripes when they find themselves in the voters’ gunsights.
The sad part is, this often works, and too many voters end up being saps. After all, The Won managed to get enough people to infect themselves with the shmuck virus for him to become President. Think about it: how many abused wives and put-upon parents of addicts and delinquents keep reconciling with their disfunctional family members without demanding proof of rehabilitation first? Politicians are masters at manipulating the “codependents” among voters.
Joe Camel commented:
As I was watching Fox News last night, they of course had the Big O stumping for Coakley, and low and behold was standing next to him; well you are correct, Claire. I have learned that when I see him, that if I see a pair of fat legs hanging from his behind that Claire is there in her favorite haunt…square up his behind.
I would be very interested to see how much money from the stimulus bill or others has gone to her husband’s pocket for their “care” facilities. I don’t really hate many people in life, but, she is at the top of my list to see ousted.
For those who don’t contribute to politics, do so only to those who match your positions. Don’t give directly to the DNC or RNC. You saw what happens when you do that in New York.
Get involved, work door to door, phone banks, what ever is needed. My wife and I have done this for the last 20 years, and it is a good way to get to know others and help from a “grass roots” campaign.