Claire McCaskill Lectures Missouri On Misguided Prop C Vote: "People Don't Realize How Beneficial the Mandate For Health Care Will Be"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, August 5, 2010, 11:52 AM
71.1% of Missouri residents rejected O-Care on Tuesday:
On Wednesday Liberal Senator Claire McCaskill (D-MO) lectured Missouri about their misguided vote saying…
“People “don’t realize” how beneficial the “mandate” for health care will be.”
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Via Real Clear Politics:
“I certainly noticed the vote on Prop C, the healthcare law, and message received,” Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) said.
McCaskill, however, makes the point that people “don’t realize” how beneficial the “mandate” for health care will be. “A lot of noise about the mandate that people have gotten so focused on that they don’t realize that there’s going to be more access and affordability and more choices,” she said.
Maybe you didn’t hear us Claire…
WE DON’T WANT IT!
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Andreas K. commented:
It’s the old “We are your rulers, we know what’s best for you, you uneducated peasants!” syndrome.
Noah commented:
Claire McClaskill if will be my pleasure to work with for the person who will run against you in 2012 I will be working my butt off to make sure everyone in Missouri knows what a complete and utter slimball you are.. take your head out of obama’s A$$ and please retire early if not when we get control over the House and Senate you can do down with the rest of your commie friend’s.. hope you like orange.
Ed commented:
This Nov. were going to tell you again we don’t want this Health Care….
Hopefully you’d finally get the message.
Hopefully you won’t be coming back.
bg commented:
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“People Don’t Realize How Beneficial
the Mandate For Health Care Will Be”
dear Claire..
if that truly is the case, then why weren’t “we the people” allowed access
& time to READ THE BILL before the Dems shoved it down our throats,
i mean, passed it & Obama signed it??
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Bob Grant commented:
Show Me state to Claire & Barack—GFY!!!
IL Patriot commented:
If ObamaCare is so wonderful why did congress exempt themselves???? hmmmmm????????
Barack Hussein Obama, mmmmm, mmmmm,mmmm
Tom commented:
Does it matter…a judge will just overturn anything they do.
lethargic commented:
when is she up for re-election?
jimg commented:
Gee. Arrogant much?
Scott commented:
She’s fuch a fraud, pretending like it’s a surprise Missourians opposed it.
A poll came out a few days before the Christmas Eve vote indicating only 38% of Missourians supported it, and 58% opposed it. She gave Missouri voters the middle finger and voted for it anyway.
What an arrogant, elitist, pompous azz.
Harry Schell commented:
Beneficial to WHOM, you lying sack of night soil?
SEIU, who will “organize” all the new government healthcare workers, and politicians like you they will funnel campaign money to?
Doesn’t look to me that I will benefit from this horror at all.
serfer62 commented:
You have to admire the sacrifice of congress to abstain from joining this wonderful gift to the people…
Rock commented:
Ignore, lie, squirm, misdirect, accuse, blame, and keep heading for that cliff Claire. Not to worry, that last step will not hurt one bit, but lord the stop at the bottom sucks big time.
Hanson commented:
I love Missouri!! Thank you, Show Me State! “If that doesn’t beat all get out” as my Missouri-born grandmother used to say.
WSG commented:
I am glad that she is standing by who she is; it is easier to identify foes if they are honest.
bitterclinger commented:
Claire McCaskill: Message received. Now go pound sand ’cause nothing’s gonna change.
Granny commented:
If it is so damned “beneficial” Claire, why the HELL did you and your fellow comrades exempt every single member of Congress? If it ain’t good enough for YOU then it isn’t good enough for ME either.
And BTW, you ignoramus, health CARE is not health insurance!
Betsy Ross commented:
American Freedom is being confiscated right before our very eyes…
kansas commented:
Claire. I don’t give a flying…..how beneficial this is. It’s the principle. You can’t force me to buy a product or fine me for not doing so.
LL commented:
The US Government paid $50 billion to support the VOLT automobile, coming soon from General Motors (a subsidiary of the US Government).
The car will sell for $41K – the same car body with a regular gasoline engine sells for $17K.
The car runs 40 minutes on an electric charge and if you don’t have a $2K charging station it takes about 8 hours to recharge (you pay for the electricity).
*****
This same government wants to manage your healthcare. Apparently people in Missouri connected the dots too.
Moright commented:
Yep, I had a couple liberal facebook friends condemn their fellow Missourians as stupid and selfish. Don’t agree with a Liberal -you’re stupid and need “educated”.
Karen commented:
Shut up, Claire.
squeaky commented:
yeah claire – i think the confusion is on her side of the table. the donner party of politics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE1R-xH5To
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t32ckkdlcao
Palinfan commented:
This runs parallel to what I said the night this prop won by over 70%. Gibbs says it’s nothing. Claire sees it as an opportunity to correct our errors and guide us back to the proper path of Obamacare. The Journ-O-Lists completely ignore it so they can fall over themselves slobbering for gay rights in California.
These scum have to be sent packing in November. And so do ANY Republicans who get in the way.
Palinfan commented:
Post #6 is dead-on.
Claire, tell us why YOU are exempt from Obamacare and WE are not.
We’re waiting.
Bill Fabrizio commented:
Claire, come January you will be able to enjoy the government pension your ilk voted for. You have my permission to enjoy it for the rest of your life. That is, of course, unless I and my fellow patriots decide you have not earned it and we arbitrarily take it away. If that is reprehensible to you maybe you will now be able to understand how we feel about the arbitrary enactment of health care “reform” by you and your party!
Catherine commented:
I want to thank the people of MO for not falling for the democ-rats lies.
stay strong
Catherine
but Tom is right the court does matter flood the Senate jam their phones stop Kagan
Why this will matter
congress holds the purse strings and can shut money for the courts.
This was under Kagan?
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/03/25/a_separate_and_unequal_exercise/
A separate and unequal exercise
By Harry Lewis
March 25, 2008
PERHAPS it is simple politeness for Harvard University to close its secondary gym to men for six hours a week so conservative Muslim women can exercise without men seeing their skin.
Religious accommodations are usually uncontroversial, but this is different. Everyone can enjoy Harvard’s kosher food; half the students are excluded from the gym, however briefly.
Surely only those with the most mean-spirited interpretation of gender equality could object – yet complain they did.
“Today I was forced to wait outside in the cold until 5,” wrote one man. “The policy seems sexist and discriminatory.”
“These hours have been put in place for equality reasons,” read Harvard’s
skip
The new stance seems generous and tolerant: Be nice to people, even if it means excluding others, as long as the benefit is significant and the injury is minor.
Which brings us to ROTC. Harvard bans ROTC because the military violates the “sexual orientation” part of Harvard’s nondiscrimination policy. Harvard students can participate in ROTC at MIT, but Harvard will not provide them meeting space or any other support – even bus fare down Massachusetts Avenue.
If there were ever a special case, this is it. ROTC’s discriminatory policy is US law. Until Congress repeals that law, Harvard should accommodate ROTC anyway, in the interests of the nation and of Harvard students wishing to serve it.
The counterargument goes, however, that if ROTC were accommodated, the benefit to cadets would be far less significant than the injury to gays and lesbians. Indeed, some claim that no price would be too high for Harvard to pay for uncompromising adherence to its nondiscrimination policy, even the loss of all government funding, if it came to that.
Is the gym exception merely a reasonable kindness to conservative Muslim women? Then Harvard’s failure of courtesy to its cadets suggests that politics determine what forms of discrimination are inoffensive.
Jennifer commented:
I try never to make a comment about the personal appearance of politicians, but good ol’ Claire looks much better in her Joker make-up.
Just my humble opinion.
mike commented:
“People “don’t realize” how beneficial the “mandate” for health care will be.” Sounds like at least 71.1 percent understood it.
mark commented:
Their mandate can also be used to solve other humanitarian problems. Take world hunger for example. If you mandate that everybody purchase $2000 of food per month from Obama, and you collect those food fees via the IRS, then everybody is fed right? World Hunger—solved. Send Obama your money, and then stand in line at the local Federal food warehouse and pick up your soup and bread.
Ruebacca commented:
“People “don’t realize” how beneficial the “mandate” for health care will be.”
so does that mean she read the bill?
Opus #6 commented:
Claire, why don’t you schedule Obowma to tour your uneducated state giving healthcare speeches every other day or so.
Wait…that’s what happened last year. Hmmm.
Why don’t the people want to eat dog food. So hard to understand. Of course the lawmakers don’t have to eat the dog food themselves, but the “people” should LOVE it.
SandyfromChesterfield commented:
Claire, your personal salvation does not depend on the collective salvation of Misssourians. We are not going to give up everything we have worked for so that you can be saved. So stop trying to force this progressive agenda down our throats!
Espresso Logic - The 6th Sense commented:
Claire bamboozled Missourians and went to DC, where she has only gotten fatter and uglier.
2012 here yet?
bg commented:
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serfer62 @ 12:18 pm #12
KUDOS!!
sacrifice-oh-sacrifice, where-art-thou congress..
is there no limitation to depths they
will plunder themselves for US?? /s/
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bg commented:
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Moright @ 12:47 pm #22
“one can lead a liberal to knowledge;
but one cannot make a liberal think.”
- bg
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Lan Astaslem commented:
What part of “We do NOT want the f***ing thing” don’t you understand!! Geez, here’s your damn glass bellybutton…maybe that will improve your sight. The only thing worse than these liberal slobs are the dumb asses that voted for them in the first place.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Translation:”You little people don’t know what’s good for you. I’m Claire McCaskill, I was elected, and then I knew everything about every subject. I can run the financial institutions, medicine, and the oil industry. You little people just don’t understand how wonderful we are!”
tori commented:
Kinda hope Purgason will run again in 2012. Claire is just keeping the seat warm for him.
Nobama commented:
Claire forgets she works for us so called dummies who don’t know what’s good for us. She also forgot we will be voting her out in 2 years. Let’s make sure we get a good Conservative to run against her, and make sure Acorn doesn’t have too many Mickey Mouse’s vote.
jim harley commented:
Thanks Missouri! You did what most of us wanted to do and will. But it was the magnitude of your punch that really made us happy.
squeaky commented:
OT [Food stamp participation up 21% over 2009
Household participation in the food stamp program has far surpassed the last peak set in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.] the only job creation would be government – those added to process applications
http://www.csmonitor.com/Money/Paper-Economy/2010/0804/Food-stamp-participation-up-21-over-2009
[Leaked emails suggest Colorado state employees plotted to give illegal immigrants unemployment benefits]
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/leaked-emails-suggest-colorado-state-employees-plotted-to-give-illegal-immigrants-unemployment-benefits-100048959.html
Granny commented:
Squeaky, Foodstamps are not just up 21% over 2009. The Christian Science Monitor is doing their darndest to minimize a catastrophe. Food Stamps are the highest they have ever been in the entire history of the program.
And for those of you who do not know, lots of those who collect unemployment make too much money to collect foodstamps unless they have kids. This isn’t reflecting the increase in unemployment as in the ones collecting benefits, the one that 9.5% unemployment figure covers. These are the folks who have run out of unemployment and most other resources.
Granny commented:
Forgot the link -
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/05/26/spending-food-stamps-time-high-sparking-debate-welfare/
Don Rodrigo commented:
people “don’t realize” how beneficial the “mandate” for health care will be
Oh, Wow. She read the bill? All 2000-plus pages? Is that how she knows this?
Granny commented:
BTW, Kagan was confirmed. Vote was about 2:1.
James Walleye commented:
Once again I’ll point out that McCasketts husband has made millions on the nursing home “business”; my point (omitted by her) is that the quicker they die under Obamacare, the faster her purse bulges…what a SKANK..
KR commented:
Does a senator receive retirement medical benefits if only one term is served?
I think it would be great if Claire ends up with the unwashed masses come Jan. 2013.
Ed Barr commented:
Ok Claire maybe if the vote had been 55/45 or even 60/40 you could claim the health care supporters didn’t get their message out. But when the vote is 71/29?
In fact I’d be more concerned about those 29%. Quite clearly these deadenders would be for it regardless of what’s in it.
Marvin Cohn commented:
Let’s do the math. About 1,300,000 (about 900,000 Republicans and about 400,000 Democrats) voted. If all the negative votes were cast by Democrats (very unlikely), that still leaves over 90,000 Democrats who had to have voted for Prop C, probably many more. This is not a Gallup or Rasmusen Poll of 10,000. If The MO vote is indicative of national voters’ feelings, there will be a tsunami coming in November that will have been unparalleled in U.S. history.
squeaky commented:
Granny
August 5th, 2010 | 2:27 pm | #45
no doubt that the numbers are higher. i worked in a related unit and those i know tell me they’re getting run over. the state hired over a
1,000 new workers with the lion share going to food stamps.
Paul_In_Houston commented:
Maybe you didn’t hear us Claire…
WE DON’T WANT IT!
And, her attitude will be…
I DON’T CARE!
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kato commented:
How much of the bill do you think this dope actually read? How much of it do you think she actually understands?
squeaky commented:
“How much of it do you think she actually understands?” not much….as john conyers pointed out………….
squeaky
August 5th, 2010 | 12:58 pm | #24
Granny commented:
KR #50 re retirement benefits, see here -
http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/uscongress/a/congresspay.htm
She would have to serve five years to be vested in the Federal retirement plan.
bg commented:
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squeaky @ 2:17 pm #44
Granny @ 2:27 pm #45
holy COWS et al..
it’s worked, it works, it’s really working!!
/gah!! sarc/
[btw, great posts everyone..]
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Robb76 commented:
One would think that the Republican (non) leaders in the house and senate would be all over this. But no, they won’t. Gonadless wonders. OK, they don’t have the numbers. but they do have the Bully Pulpit. But of course they won’t use it. Just might not get invited to the right social events if they were to do that.
KR commented:
Thanks for the link Granny.
Hoping if there are any scandals she is involved in come to light and she has to resign before the five year mark.
Though not likely to happen, I know…sigh.
Joanne commented:
Like you can trust what McCaskill has to say…you can’t trust any of them.
squeaky commented:
to throw gasoline on the fire -
http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=31445
Steve commented:
Yes-the commerce clause gets bastardized to require citizens to buy something they do not choose or pay a fine.
This was President Obama & Claire’s sales pitch:
Increase Demand + Decreased Supply (of Doctors) = Lower Healthcare Premiums
Sojourner commented:
..’Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.’ ~J.Borenstein
The response is just beginning….Claire.
squeaky commented:
[Liberal: We're Suffering From "Post-Traumatic First African American President Syndrome"]
“We’re not giving this man an opportunity to really — we keep hitting him with all of these things but reality is he’s done more in two…..”
i guess their patience is infinite….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ojd13kZlCA http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/08/05/liberal_were_suffering_from_post-traumatic_first_african_american_president_syndrome.html
DocScience commented:
Sorry Claire, Americans know EXACTLY what you and your liberal pals have done.
Prepare for a career post “public service”.
bg commented:
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Robb76 @ 3:16 pm #59
oh please, they seem to have spoken out against the TPM a lot stronger than they have Dear Leader or any of the Democrats & their “magic tricks”, not to mention the out & out RINO voters amongst them.. it’s almost as if they too are mesmerized, or stunned, whatever & what’s the difference, silence speaks louder than words is not a good metaphor to live by in this case..
i’m hoping & praying that they’ve stored up one heck of
a dam surprise to burst on US just before the elections..
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Granny commented:
bg, from your second link I noticed that Piven was/is an honorary chairman of Democratic Socialists of America – which is very close to an accurate translation of the name of the Nazi party in some areas of Europe.
Also, yesterday I happened across this article from 1941 Harper’s magazine. You’ll find a reprint and photocopies of the original here -
http://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/0020122
The whole thing is well worth a read, but one of the most interesting bits is this one little sentence – remember, this is from 1941, before Pearl Harbor:
QUOTE James has been butler to the ‘ighest aristocracy, considers all Nazis parvenus and communists ENDQUOTE
There are several other references to communism & communists in the essay. So, even back then it was clear that communism and the Nazis were essentially one and the same. And Harper’s was not exactly the most conservative mag around.
Granny commented:
Squeaky, I’ve been seeing rumours of that Hail Mary Pass August Surprise. I think The Won intends to win over the millions who owe more than their property is worth, but I have to tell you, this adds up to so much money that I am not at all sure that he can do this without Congress – and maybe not with them. Fannie and Freddie are at least ostensibly private and we’re talking billions of dollars. Not to mention that every community in the country will be screaming about their tax base. And further, the Constitution requires that all citizens are treated the same. Equal rebates like Bush put out are one thing. What about all of those millions of people who do not have Fannie or Freddie mortgages?
Robb76 commented:
bg # 68
I pray you are right.
Greg commented:
Poor Claire, she foolishly thought that she was elected to support legislation that she approved of rather than represent the will of the majority of those who are in her district when it comes to legislation. Maybe after she is defeated for her arrogance she will get a clue. Doubtful.
myohmy commented:
Really? Then we will enroll you after we vote you out of office. I can see November from my house.
Ginger commented:
McCaskill….
Scum of the earth has nothing compaired to you.
This evil scum and her husband was in a very big scandal a few years back. ABUSING the ELDERLY in their nursing homes. I guess now since she is so important (cough, cough) people who are supposed to be watching the elderly care could be turning their heads. Don’t trust this augly, fat BITCH! May you burn in hell McCaskill and sooner the better.
I CAN SMELL NOVEMBER from my house! It’s called JUSTICE for “We the People”
squeaky commented:
mc caskill – one of the 3 amigos. when someone questions why [after the blood and sweat of young Americans] a contract went to china and not the U.S…….
http://www.observer.com/2008/schumer-kerry-mccaskill-want-rice-intervene-iraq-oil-deals
MLM411 commented:
That should REALLY help her get re-elected. I just love these elitist liberals; “they always know better than us…..we’re too stupid to understand the healthcare law”. What an idiot!
squeaky commented:
[Michelle believes Jill doesn't respect her. What's got her seething is that Jill doesn't seem to treat Michelle with the reverence the first lady expects.........]hee-hee-hee snort. i know i know but you gotta admit……………
http://www.nationalenquirer.com/michelle_obama_jill_biden_feud/celebrity/69112
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27RZrsHuA6Q
Robert commented:
Missouri: “We don’t want it!”
Fibber McGibbs: “It means nothing.”
McCaskill: “I won.”
squeaky commented:
a street huckster in the oval office and bozo the
clown in the senate……
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/242625/al-franken-was-i-making-faces-i-while-mitch-mcconnell-was-talking-about-kagan-today-ka
squeaky commented:
[Fannie Mae asks for $1.5B in aid after 2Q loss
Fannie Mae asks for less money from gov't and says it can cover most mortgage losses..]
[The new request means they have needed $146.4 billion to stay afloat....] walking around money…. years ago i had a chinese money tree plant – certainly could use it now…..
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Fannie-Mae-asks-for-15B-in-apf-1295937579.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode=
kansas commented:
Did I hear right that ABC, CBS, and NBC did not cover Prop C? In that case it didn’t really happen for most of the country.
squeaky commented:
“Maybe you didn’t hear us Claire…WE DON’T WANT IT!” on a serious note isn’t there some psychological condition that a lot of these folks would fall under. there must have been a method to their madness when they closed the institutions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJrBhtnQ42U&feature=fvst
and if not an institution then maybe a psychiatrist couch which i just happen to have..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUpZgt46-HA
StrngernFiction commented:
“It would be better if he kept his mouth shut, umm…..I don’t think any cheering from Fidel Castro is is (Claire cuts off her thought and moves on)”
http://www.breitbart.tv/mccaskill-dems-over-promising-on-health-care/ (begins 3:53)
You don’t think a communist dictator cheering Obamacare is what Claire? You don’t think Fidel’s public approval is helpful to those, such as yourself, who are trying to Cubanize America?
Nancy commented:
What this nitwit forgets is that very few people want something jammed down their unwilling throats because someone else thinks it will be good for them.
Get this through your thick skull, Claire. I *don’t care* if you think it will be good for me. I *don’t want it anyway!* At this point, it doesn’t matter if you think I should like it, or if it is good for me. You forced me to take it regardless, and that means I will work my rear end off to make you pay for your error. I don’t want your mandate. I don’t want your healthcare because you forced it on me. Comprende?
Micah commented:
Typical liberal response: “if you don’t want it, that’s just because you’re too stupid to realize it’s what you really do want. I support it because it’s for your own good. You’ll thank me later.”
Ginger commented:
Let it be known you INSURANCE COMPANYS… You treat us right and make health insurance affordable we can make you richer then you ever dreamed! Is it a Deal??????
Every one let’s work out a plan with the insurance companys. Spread the word!
Finncrisp commented:
Memo to Claire – 71% to 29% usually means that someone has erred badly and needs to regroup. Your interpretation is that we need to enlist in “reeducation” camps has me thinking you think this is Cuba or something.
Message received and understood….
pjforhim commented:
Claire, we are coming for you!! Your election tacticts of keeping the polls open late is unaceptable to Missourians and will not be tolerated!! We the people are standing up now and will not be run by the liberals!!
UpChuck.Liberals commented:
And here I thought that the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia had all the arrogant B!tche$.
cracker commented:
She thinks she is ENTITLED to a Senate seat!. EAT THE G.D. ELITE. EAT THEM NOW!!!!!!!! They must be made to fear the people they think they “RULE”.
bg commented:
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Granny 3:59 pm #70
excellent read, found myself involuntarily nodding in agreement all the way through it.. and if it doesn’t encapsulate the gist of the fundamental changes being made, from Axelrod to Soros so to speak, not to mention describe the perception Obama exudes, i don’t know what would.. simple, straight to the point, easy to understand, again, a great read, thank you for sharing..
[Sometimes I think there are direct biological factors at work–a type of education, feeding, and physical training which has produced a new kind of human being with an imbalance in his nature. He has been fed vitamins and filled with energies that are beyond the capacity of his intellect to discipline. He has been treated to forms of education which have released him from inhibitions. His body is vigorous. His mind is childish. His soul has been almost completely neglected.
[..]
Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi. They may be the gentle philosopher whose name is in the Blue Book, or Bill from City College to whom democracy gave a chance to design airplanes–you’ll never make Nazis out of them. But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success–they would all go Nazi in a crisis.
Believe me, nice people don’t go Nazi. Their race, color, creed,
or social condition is not the criterion. It is something in them.]
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burt commented:
In 2012 Obama is going to run for re-election. He won’t have time enough to print money for himself and her. Too bad Claire.
ThunderDog commented:
“People “don’t realize” how beneficial the “mandate” for health care will be.”
Now calm down, folks. Aunt Claire knows what’s best for you. The arrogance of this woman is stunning.
If it is, indeed beneficial, then why is it mandated (mandatory; forced; compulsory; required by law)?
Pofarmer commented:
I’ve never donated to a political candidate, ever, but, whoever runs against Clair McCaskill will get the honor of being the first.