Senator Claire McCaskill DISTANCES HERSELF From Obama, Senate Democrats

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Appearing on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Senator Claire McCaskill (D) was asked about Obama’s plan to use executive action regarding the deportation the families of illegal immigrants. Her response was short and bittersweet. “I’m not crazy about it.” Later, McCaskill lambasted Speaker John Boehner’s refusal to bring up a bipartisan immigration reform bill in the House that was passed by the Senate. However, it is no secret that McCaskill is unhappy with both the leader of her party in the Senate and with President Barack Obama’s plan to take unilateral action on immigration reform. McCaskill also said why she didn’t vote for Harry Reid to be the Senate Minority: “I think [the 2014 election] was a message from the American people,” she said. “Our party got walloped, and I think they’re saying we need to change what we’re doing, and I think change begins in leadership.”



McCaskill also refused to praise Harry Reid or Elizabeth Warren, whom Reid has given a special position within the leadership ranks, saying that moderates like Senator Jon Tester of Montana were also given leadership ranks. The Senator from Missouri is also joining Senators Joe Manchin and Mary Landrieu on pushing to pass the Keystone Pipeline. I suggest McCaskill become a Republican. The Democrats need to get back to being progressive, and they need to band together, now more than ever. I’m tired of conservative Democrats running away from what Democrats stand for because they fear they won’t be re-elected. Democrats running from Obama? Isn’t that why they lost the Senate? P.S. Obama won his re-election. America said YES to his “agenda” twice. And like all the others that distance themselves from Democratic principles and President Obama’s accomplishments, and who tried to be more like Republicans, she will lose. And it will not be pretty for the Democrats.





http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/11/16/senator-claire-mccaskill-distances-herself-from-obama-senate-democrats/

[hobbit709]

1. Another goddamn DINO we are supposed to give unquestioning obedience to.

At least according to those that accuse us of voting for President Cruz in 2016 otherwise.

[mylye2222]

2. I think she is just afraid of

being registered back as a Clintonverse traitor. Its only self protection.

[randome]

3. It's not a very intelligent response, though.

She should be able to support the President and express herself without taking the lazy route of walking down the middle.
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[hobbit709]

4. "The only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and dead armadillos"-Jim Hightower

[randome]

6. Sometimes it was John and Yoko.

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[Bluenorthwest]

21. Sometimes it was a dead snunk in the middle of the road...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

5. Remember how happy everyone was when she got elected?

Good times. Good times.

[alp227]

15. because the alternative? Todd "Legitimate Rape" Akin. nt

[Nuclear Unicorn]

17. I thought it was Todd "Don't know much 'bout biology" Akin?

[still_one]

7. screw you Claire. Presidents have been doing this for years and it wasn't until the African

American did it that people are suddenly not happy about it?

Where was the media and the so-called critics under bush?

http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/orders/

[onecaliberal]

8. She needs to go.

I said it before when I saw her reaction to the brown shooting and I'm saying it again. This woman needs to go. She represents everything wrong with our party and why we lose.

[KingCharlemagne]

20. Not being critical or skeptical, merely curious: what was her reaction to the Brown

shooting? (I would appreciate any links you might have that bear on this question too.)

[onecaliberal]

24. I will look for links. It was in two interviews

In particular where she tries to skirt around the fact that people in her state do not trust the police. She basically insinuated it was their own fault.

[KingCharlemagne]

30. I had read elsewhere (maybe on a different thread here?) that some felt McCaskill's response

to the Brown shooting was unsatisfactory. I didn't make a note of it at the time nor the reasons for it.

It may have been a post saying that McCaskill had essentially signed off on how McCulloch and Nixon are handling matters. If she's hunky-dorey with the way the case is being handled by those two yo-yos, then she's really a waste of time, imho.

[onecaliberal]

31. That was the gist of it IMO

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25. McCaskill Statement on Ferguson Shooting

Monday, August 11, 2014

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill released the following statement in response to news surrounding the shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, by a Ferguson, Mo. police officer:

“As a mother, I grieve for this child and his family. I pray that the wonderful, hardworking, and God-loving people of Ferguson will find peace and patience as we wait for the results of what will be numerous and thorough investigations of what happened. I, like so many other Missourians, will not be satisfied until we have a complete and transparent understanding of all the facts and circumstances that led to this young man’s death.”

http://www.mccaskill.senate.gov/media-center/news-releases/mccaskill-statement-on-ferguson-shooting

"...Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., told reporters Tuesday that police should be required to wear body cameras if their department is receiving money from the federal government. "It seems to me that before we give federal funds to police departments, we ought to mandate that they have body cams," McCaskill said.

McCaskill’s comments come after the shooting of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, earlier this month, which set off a series of protests in the St. Louis suburb. McCaskill, who called on Ferguson officials to “demilitarize” the police response, said the body camera mandate would be “a great legacy” to follow Brown’s death...."

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/08/28/is-claire-mccaskill-right-to-say-police-should-wear-body-cameras

"...Later, on Capitol Hill, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said she believed that the Brown shooting had “solidified a lot of discontent, reasonable discontent, about some of the policies of this country, particularly when it comes to the criminal justice system.

“But on the other hand, it also is demonstrating the kind of robust support we have in this country for our police officers,” she continued. “And it is navigating those two issues that is such a challenge — making sure that we support our police but also hear the protesters, because it is Mike Brown, but it is also much bigger than Michael Brown....”

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/scholar-blames-ferguson-shooting-on-history-of-government-segregation-policies/article_5fe91ffa-9f0d-5e05-98d5-af979ad5f901.html

[onecaliberal]

33. None of those statements are in line with the live

Interviews she gave when Nixon activated the National guard last time. Or even how she supported the chief of police and the governor.

[Skeowes28]

9. Winning

She has. To do what it takes to win Id rather have her than another faucken gop hack in the senate

[Johonny]

10. message from the American: Ah... Most of Americans didn't bother to vote: You suck that bad.

They are so disillusioned with the government after Republicans made the plan to break it they gave up voting. There message couldn't be louder. You guys all suck and won't do anything to help me. * you I'm not voting. If she wants to sign up for more of that then she should resign and let an American that wants to govern and get people to believe in governance again. She sucks at her job and wants others to suck hard too, great message there.

[belzabubba333]

11. You guys all suck and won't do anything to help me

the great excuse

[Johonny]

14. are you arguing that disillusionment doesn't cause lower voter turnout?

because there is a mountain of evidence that suggests that disillusionment leads to people making bad choices and not voting. I voted but I won't pretend that programmed disillusionment and creating and teaching an atmosphere of helplessness doesn't lead to people not voting. There's just too much information out there that says it does. Leaders that plan to produce this effect like the GOP has done for the past 6 years are horrible leaders because they undermine our process. If she supports that then she sucks. She has supported that so she sucks. Screw her.

When people are disillusioned it often takes very little to make them not vote. Good political scientists understand that and use that against society. You can either accept what studies say or pretend somehow society works different and magically pure. It is really up to you. I don't see society as such a simple model.

[belzabubba333]

23. that's a self fulfilling feedback loop - someone gets disillusion so they dont vote giving them more

reps of an opposing view making that person more disillusioned so they still dont vote , round and round we go. voting is the only way to break the cycle . sitting it out is not the answer

[jeff47]

28. Because voting always works!

Look at the 2008 election and that all-Democratic Congress and Presidency and how.....little they actually got done.

Why'd so little get done? Conservative Democrats believing they could get Republicans to vote for them. Ignoring that Republicans would rather tear off their own arms than pull the lever for a Democrat.

Then we lost the house in 2010. And Democrats doubled-down on conservative appeal. And more and more "no really! We're moderate!!" crap.

You want to "break the cycle", you need to break the cycle of Democrats running away from their voters. And blindly voting because of the "D" after the name doesn't break that cycle.

[belzabubba333]

41. they wont run away from their voters if they know their voters will vote for them

the dem party needs a new base. if the dem voters voted on a consistent basis the dem pols wouldnt feel the need to cater to the right for the moderate votes. dem pols have to do that because they cant count on their base to vote them back in . And "blindly" voting because of the "D" after the name doesn't break that cycle. yes it does cause democrats would need to lean right because they would have the votes to get them back in office.

pretty telling you would add blindly to that statement. youre part of the problem and you need to change your attitude.imo

[Rex]

12. But but but I was just told on the DU that appealing to conservatives was just a hoax.

That our candidates never did that and their loss was due to Sasquatch. Naturally I believed them.

[joeybee12]

13. She needs to be primaried...

Unfortunately that won't be for another 4 years.

[alp227]

16. it's Missouri - doubt an Elizabeth Warren or Jeff Merkley would win there nt

[joeybee12]

22. Yeah, but someone with a message for the working class...

Which she clearly does not have.

[Art_from_Ark]

40. Missouri is an extremely conservative state

Like Pennsylvania, it has two more-or-less "blue" cities at its east and west ends, with a sea of red in most other places.

[jwirr]

18. I shall place her on my list of those I will refuse to donate to in the future.

[Bluenorthwest]

19. McCaskill is an 'honorary co-chair' of Third Way

I can't stand her.

[LondonReign2]

26. Third Wayer Ahoy!

[Proud Public Servant]

27. She's getting ready for 2016

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When she'll make a run for MO governor.

[Aerows]

35. Probably

and she'll be just as much of a duplicitous bonehead as she is being now.

[fredamae]

29. The Fake Dems are

exposing themselves.
I've long believed the country would be a Better place without McCaskill and Landrieu plus a few more of the corporate loving wall street "oily dems".

[bigwillq]

32. Never cared for her (nt)

[Aerows]

34. I used to respect her

and like her.

Note the past tense.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

36. It is not lost on me, and it shouldn't be lost on anyone that she represents Missouri where Nixon is

governor and where they are about to hand down a Grand Jury verdict, freeing a white cop who killed an unarmed young black man in cold blood.

Nah, just a coincidence, Claire?

Gotta distance herself from the black Muslim from Kenya residing in the White House. Wouldn't want to mess up your and Nixon's reelection chances in 2016 with the good white folk in Missourah!

[Robbins]

43. Except

Nixon can't run for reelection In 2016.He can run for senate.

I am from Missouri and i can say he is done in Missouri politics.No democrat can get elected here without strong turnout inst louis and kansas city.Nixon has ensured blacks won't support him ever again.Hell I am white missouri liberal and i won't support him ever
again.

McCaskill Is eaher going to try to run for governor in 2016 or is worried about her 2018 reelection chances.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

44. Ahhh!! That makes sense! Thanks. I know there are proud liberals who are white...

...and are risking their lives, standing side by side with the other protestors in Ferguson, so I appreciate that you understood that I wasn't casting a wide net.

Obama won the state in the Democratic primaries in 2008. He also won it closely in the general, if I remember. So I know that there are good people there.

I guess Claire sees this as her best strategy, though. If she has until 2018, this is a very long time to go. People don't have that long of a memory. I don't get it, but o.k.

[Robbins]

45. Yep

There were those of us who worked to reject Hillary for Obama here.Strong turnout in st louis and kansas city almost run Mo for obama.In fact had nader not been on ballet in 2008 Obama might have taken MO.

Nixon has always had problems with black voters till 2008.That what killed his run for senate in 1998.

Before long Mccaskill may try to forget she endorsed obama for 2008 and 2012.Now I have to give her credit that unlike other state
dems In 2012 she was willing to say she endorsed him for reelection here In Mo.

Unlike nixon she has tried to at least pretend at times to listen to those In ferguson.

Dems like Nixon and McCaskill don't seem to realize they need to respect base.GOP would never ailenate base.

[Yavin4]

37. Someone needs to tell the Senator that the days of distancing yourself from the party's leadership

are over. You are tied with Obama and everything that he stands for. Your opponent will hang Obama around your neck and there's no strategy to counteract that.

Stand strong with Obama and give yourself a chance to win. Run away from him, and you guarantee yourself a loss.

[TheKentuckian]

38. Campaigning to help the TeaPubliKlans to 60, one right wing circle D at a time.

Folks will want to call them the Spelunking Gang because the "cave" all the time but the reality will be they are just moving the agenda they support. That ain't cave, that is being complicit.

[Faryn Balyncd]

39. Bob Schieffer and the rest of the pseudo-centrist, phony, corporate media mainstreaming Fox "News"

....propaganda are the real villains destroying America, not Claire McCaskill. Replacing her in the Senate with Todd Akin would NOT be an improvement.


I don't think that the headline "Senator Claire McCaskill DISTANCES HERSELF From Obama, Senate Democrats" is an accurate summary of the interview at all, and totally ignores the trust of her replies, which was overwhelmingly SUPPORT of the President.


A more truthful headline for the interview would be "Pseudo-centrist GOP Troll Bob Schieffer and CBS Shamelessly Peddle GOP Propaganda".


We need a higher profile for full-throated truth-tellers like Warren and Sanders, but those who think getting rid of Clair McCaskill would help are naive.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

42. So many politicians putting their cushy perk-filled jobs and continued power ahead of principle

and true service. I keep waiting for a politician who comes into office saying he/she doesn't care about popularity polls and won't put concern about being re-elected above doing what's right. I keep waiting for a politician who doesn't want politics to be their permanent profession but only a means to helping society.

I would love to see a Senator come into office and tell the public they won't be swayed at all about any polls, they won't spend even ten seconds raising money while in office, they won't spend even ten seconds talking to a lobbyist and won't even let a lobbyist through the front door, and they won't sell their soul by supporting bad legislation just because it might save their job. They would tell the public they absolutely will not seek re-election beyond the first term and tell their constituents to vote against them if they let power go to their head and do seek re-election.

[Atman]

46. Feckless Democrats Shoot Each Other In The Foot.

We couldn't run a fucking yard sale, never mind a political party.