Posted on 07/17/2009 4:37:33 PM PDT by curth
Q. Support for the president’s expensive plan to extend coverage to millions of Americans while curbing Medicare and Medicaid spending has slipped in recent nationwide polls.
Where do you stand? Do you support the health care overhaul?
Yes. The plan will save lives and money in the long-term. 17%
Somewhat. It’s not perfect but it’s something. 6%
No. It will burden us with debt and won’t fix anything. 76%
Not sure/No opinion. 2%
75623 votes
Keep the good trend going.
Please vote: http://js.polls.yahoo.com/quiz/quiziframe.php?poll_id=47046
The reason I asked was because McCaskill has to know that too. Supporting an agenda that isn't popular in the state could spell lots of trouble for her in the future.
There's no doubt in my mind of that, they always seem to take the close states when it counts. Except for Florida when they were caught red-handed.
She doesn't care. She is a raging liberal, who knows better than the little people she is supposed to represent. It is my opinion that she laso has faith in the liberal operatives in the state to steal the election, if need be.
Her form letter response that I received last week indicated Obamacare had her full support. She may not have gotten a full briefing from her staffers yet.
Well I hope the next time she's up for re-election you're able to throw her out. We're unable to do that where I am because the liberals have so much big city support.
Here I was hoping she might be one of the Senators who could put the brakes to it. I'm starting to think we're getting this rammed down our throats no matter how much opposition there is. Just like with NAFTA.
She isn’t stupid, so she may see that it is doomed and jump ship to save her political skin. I think they were surprised by the protesters and the Senators I’m sure will be sharing stories about the rabble rising up and speaking out.
I don’t see the polling numbers getting better for Obamacare. News is getting out that cuts will be made to medicare program and most private insurance will fade away. This is scaring the feces out of Americans that are paying attention.
I wouldn’t mind Red Dawn in a modern scenario, with me in a minor roll, and more modern firearms.
The poll numbers for Obamacare are going down fast and they've started to ratchet up the "it has to get done now now now" bs. We've got to slow it before they go on break.
So, this site and Instapundit are supporting a group of people waving loopy signs intimidating a Senator's staffers? Isn't that what ACORN does? Remember that bus tour of executives' homes? Isn't that the same thing: intimidation and implicit threats of violence?
First off, what intimidation? All I read is that the staffers complained to the cops that they *felt threatened*, I did not see any proof, indicators of such. More importantly, THERE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE IN EXERCISING FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS OUTSIDE THE OFFICE OF AN ELECTED MOC AND THE HOME OF A PRIVATE CITIZEN.
To compare these is just so dopey, it makes me crazy!
They hit him with a "zimmer frame", ie, a walker.
This is what the lib pols and their staff are going to use to silence dissent - “we felt threatened”.
Yes, you should feel “threatened”. People are angry at you elitist asses. Straighten up and you won’t “feel threatened”.
Really? What happened to all the money?
The 50 Richest Members of Congress
14. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) $19.42 million
McCaskill watched her net worth grow in 2007, increasing more than 24 percent over her estimated $15.66 million total in 2006.
Among McCaskill’s major assets: approximately 270 limited partnerships in affordable housing real estate and a handful of “enterprise trust investment funds” held by her husband that showed a combined increase of approximately $2.7 million in value from last year.
Her spouse purchased a Kansas City, Mo., housing bond listed in the “over $1 million” category. The Senator’s husband also identified a loan of at least $1 million, the only liability listed by the couple, from Enterprise Bank.
Thank you for contacting me regarding our health care system. I appreciate having your comments and welcome the opportunity to respond.
There is no denying that our health care system is in dire need of reform. The soaring cost of medical care is crippling our economy, bankrupting our nation’s families, and becoming an unsustainable financial burden for American employers. In the last eight years, health care premiums have grown four times faster than wages, and there are nearly 46 million uninsured Americans - the majority of whom are employed. It’s tragic that in a country of great wealth like ours so many of our fellow Americans don’t have access to care; and that the uninsured are suffering from avoidable illnesses and receiving expensive medical care too late the cost of which gets passed on to the rest of us.
I am pleased to see my colleagues on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pension Committee and on the Finance Committee leading the health reform effort in the Senate. There are still many tough issues to resolve in the health care debate, including insurance coverage mandates, whether a public program will compete with private insurers, and how to pay for it. While theses topics are still being deliberated in committee hearings and roundtable discussions, the highest priorities for Congress and health industry leaders are protecting patient choice of care,Bull feces! curbing skyrocketing health costs, and expanding coverage for the uninsured.
Although I am hopeful that significant reform will be enacted by the end of this year, you should know that Congress has already passed several measures that have improved access to care for children and struggling families. In January, I voted for Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (H.R. 2), which will provide 4.1 million additional low-income children with quality health care coverage.
I was also pleased that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), enacted in February, included extended unemployment health benefits coverage as well as funds for cost saving health care initiatives like health information technology (health IT).
Addressing our nation’s health care crisis will be no small feat for Congress; but it will only get worse the longer we ignore it. Our nation's long term financial health requires a balance between family coverage needs and viable financing from businesses and the government. The current tenuous situation necessitates action on healthcare reform now. I look forward to working with my colleagues in a bipartisan fashion to find a fiscally responsible solution for the health of Americans and our nation’s economy, and I am hopeful that we will have significant reform enacted by the end of this year.
All best,
Senator Claire McCaskill
So when they say it, it must be true, but when it actually happens, re: the Black Panthers at polling places with weapons, noooooo, that's not intimidation, no one should have *felt threatened* -- why, Eric Holder told me so!!
Ain't this some stuff, eh?
Typical staff form response, but I’m curious — “All best”, is that a correct C&P or was “the” somehow left out? I’ve never ever heard/received just “All best” as the closing.
With all due respect to the Senator, socializing health care is not going to make anything better. Why do so many people from Canada come to the United States to get care if it works so well? After this passes we'll be forced to go to foreign countries where they still respect the free market. Thanks for nothing McCaskill and the rest of the clowns in Washington.
She wont be the Sec of State after 2010. She is running for Kit Bond’s senate seat he is retiring from. There are no Republican candidates with the statewide name recognition she has so I have a pretty solid bad feeling she will win.
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