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In reply to the discussion: We currently have 48 Senators who vote as Democrats. Tell Us about Yours. [View all]Percy Cholmondeley
(74 posts)Roy Blunt, the republican, is a proud stooge of everything corrupt. He was a biggie on Trump's inaug. committee. All his immediate family members are lobbyists, I believe. He'll be one as soon as he's swept out in the tidal wave, I hope. Just another RW jerk to whom the public interest is way low on the list of priorities. He could really give a shit about the voters - that's what Karl Rove and Kris Kobach are for. I send smilin' Roy a lot of emails.
Claire McCaskill, the democrat, comes across as a sincere, knowledgeable person, able to empathize believeably. She's not liberal enough for my taste, but this is Missouri, after all, a state full of low-information xtians, for whom grampaw's religion is good enough, so she has to move right. My own brother is a big FOX adherent. One thing about Claire, in 2009 I went to a town hall she held at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, MO (my alma mater) and she stuck with the plan until the scheduled end. There were about 1,000 people there, and way more than half were loud, obnoxious teabaggers, drowning her out much of the time. They were rude and mean, but she stuck with it. Many of these jerks had been bussed in - I saw them getting off the busses with my own eyes. There was money behind that. And outside, all around the building, more NRA types with assault rifles and camo clothes strutting around like they were guarding the place - made them feel like men, I'm sure. Claire did not quit early and did not call the cops for an escort. I really admired that. These GOP snowflakes nowadays, facing hostile crowds, are not having to face NRA thugs threateningly flourishing their deadly toys, and they still run like rabbits. The subject of that 2009 town hall was the Affordable Care Act.