Who Are Your Milk Carton Politicians?

HotAir.com ^ | August 16, 2009 | Ed Morrissey

[WhiteCastle]

The approach of Missouri represenatives to dealing with the outcry against the health care bill has run the gamut. In St. Louis, Rep. Russ Carnahan has held three disastrous public events. In Lee’s Summit, Rep. Emanuel Cleaver — no doubt influenced by the experiences of Carnahan and others — held a “tele-town hall” and a morning coffee, taking no questions from the audience, all the while insisting that “there is no health care bill” to talk about anyway. It appears Ike Skelton has one-upped them both. He hasn’t held, and apparently might not hold, any public meetings on the matter. About 100 people gathered outside Rep. Ike Skelton’s office in Missouri’s capital city to voice concerns about federal health care legislation. Neither the 17-term Democratic congressman nor his staff were present at the Wednesday evening event, organized

[Man50D]

Forget the milk carton. They’ll need the side of a cow considering the number that are “missing” during the August break.

[Venturer]

My boy Steny Hoyer is in hiding too.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Jim Cooper of Tennessee refuses to appear in public.

[Charles Martel]

I know of a few that I’d like to *put* on a milk carton, that’s for sure.

[bleach]

Driehaus in Cincinnat/SW Ohio.

[MarkL]

I'm still amazed that Cleaver spends any time in Lee's Summit. It's an area that probably votes pretty heavily against him. But the KC urban core pretty much turns the republican candidate into a sacrificial lamb. I don't remember the last time a republican won the 5th congressional district in MO.

Mark