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McCaskill: I feel “almost sorry for John Boehner”
McCaskill (D-Mo.) told “Meet the Press” moderator David Gregory that she believes the Republican House leader is in a difficult position as he works towards a deal with President Obama that he can sell to his caucus.
The Missouri senator said she feels “almost sorry for John Boehner, there is incredible pressure on him from a base of his party that is unreasonable about this and he’s got to decide: is his Speakership more important or is the country more important.”
McCaskill said Republicans were wedded to not raising taxes on even the wealthiest Americans, as the clock ticks down to January 1st, when automatic tax hikes and large spending cuts are set to take place if Washington fails to agree on an alternate deficit-reduction plan.
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McCaskill is the biggest harlot in DC.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Missouri, you are a sorry state.
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 6:32 PM
Key word “almost.”
Kenosha Kid on December 2, 2012 at 6:34 PM
Boy it appear they have all the slugs on the talk shows now don’t they? That old harpy feels sorry for no one, she is a d!
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letget on December 2, 2012 at 6:35 PM
Thanks Missouri!! Seriously.. two words as to why this lady is still a Senator… Todd Akin.
Illinidiva on December 2, 2012 at 6:38 PM
McCaskill milked the cow (Missouri) dry and still voted for her.
They are as dumb as the voters in the rest of the land.
AmeriKa deserves McCaskill and Obama, in full.
Suffer, fools, suffer!!!
Schadenfreude on December 2, 2012 at 6:42 PM
We don’t need no water, let the mother– burn…
Gingotts on December 2, 2012 at 6:44 PM
http://www.thelookingspoon.com/tlsimages/blog/2011/top_10_gifts_to_give_a_liberal.jpg
davidk on December 2, 2012 at 6:48 PM
I feel sorry for McCaskill, being in a party led by Obama whose primary tactic is to blame and demonize those who disagree with him. She’s just following his lead. Talking about people rather than policy.
But that’s Obama’s whole thing. Turning us into a nation of men from a nation of laws under the Constitution. Your wealth, class, race, gender, sexual orientation, these are what drive Obama. Not equality and equal protection under the law.
Paul-Cincy on December 2, 2012 at 6:52 PM
I can’t wait for the next sleazy revelation about old Claire and her filthbag husband. It never fails to astound me how most of her crap never makes it outside of MO.
BettyRuth on December 2, 2012 at 6:52 PM
I can’t stand these America-haters trying to act as if they like America. People who voted in an anti-Western Indonesian Dog-Eating Retard who has done nothing but work to destroy America (and has been generally successful at that) turning around and trying to wrap themselves in a flag that they all love to burn more than anything. It’s beyond offensive.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 2, 2012 at 6:53 PM
“I feel sorry that he won’t accept the same economic wisdom which has brought such success the last four years.”
-jackass demorat
Bishop on December 2, 2012 at 6:55 PM
Takes brass ones for a lapdog for Obama to accuse someone else of not caring about what is good for the country. Seems like she and most of the Dems are prepared to let Obama drag the country into ruin.
katiejane on December 2, 2012 at 6:57 PM
Remember the halcyon days of yore when dissent was patriotic, when the minority party was supposed to fight tooth and nail? Man, those were awesome days, whatever happened to them?
Bishop on December 2, 2012 at 6:59 PM
Thanks Todd….you jackass.
NeoKong on December 2, 2012 at 7:00 PM
Almost? I do feel very sorry for anyone who has to negotiate with Barack Obama who we all know doesn’t negotiate in good faith. Everyone wants to piss on Boehner but no one wants to take over for him. Negotiating with Obama is a fools errand. We’d be better off negotiating with Biden. The dude may be insane but at least in his case you’re allowed to say so in public.
dczombie on December 2, 2012 at 7:11 PM
If the GOP is going to put up a candidate like Akin then you can’t complain about Missouri.
Candidates who stumble over rape and abortion, or witchcraft should be weeded out at the 2nd interview stage.
The GOP does not get the leeway the Democrat party does. Sorry but rape, murder, and assorted lesser felonies are not barrier for a Democrat. For a Republican? Please.
CorporatePiggy on December 2, 2012 at 7:12 PM
Yeah, it’s not MO’s fault that the Repubs put up a standard socon from 1950.
Maybe they will learn from this. They won’t.
Moesart on December 2, 2012 at 7:16 PM
And here is everything that is wrong with politics. When it becomes a decision about someone’s “speakership” over the needs/what is best for the country and it’s a decision?
Time burn the trough and purge the pen.
kim roy on December 2, 2012 at 7:16 PM
That’s ridiculous, and so is everyone who voted for McCaskill or didn’t vote because they didn’t like something Akin said – which, if you don’t listen to the lying RINOs and leftists wasn’t anything that bad. But the GOP and “conservative” punditry went out of their way to stomp on Akin and too many Missourians screwed the pooch for no reason. There’s no excuse for that so don’t try to find any. Akin made one comment about something he would not even have any power over, that was totally distorted by the left and the RINOs, and Missouri decided to let the slime of the Earth back in the Senate … great stuff.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 2, 2012 at 7:18 PM
Oh, I dunno. IMHO, probably a good 50% of us would love to go in there and do the talking instead of Boehner.
kim roy on December 2, 2012 at 7:22 PM
Grow up.
In today’s political environment he did the equivalent of putting on a white hood and setting fire to a cross. A professional wouldn’t have made that mistake. It was stupid and amateurish and he should have apologized and ran away.
CorporatePiggy on December 2, 2012 at 7:25 PM
I imagine most of us think we’d like to give it a try, and then realize that we’d probably slit our wrists after the first meeting with The Won.
dczombie on December 2, 2012 at 7:30 PM
Negotiating with Teh Won must be like negotiating with a brick wall. Totally useless.
dczombie on December 2, 2012 at 7:30 PM
That guy in CT who beat McMahon said he believes life begins at birth (!!!) but you’d only know that if you read some conservative blogs. We watch Stephanopolous every morning, mostly for comedic effect. I can’t remember him running one story about Fauxahontas but remember his play by play of Akin and Mourdock with great detail.
Ace put it succinctly when the Akin debacle went down – we need pitchers that get strikeouts, not cloud-f*cking homeruns.
The Count on December 2, 2012 at 7:31 PM
You’re trying to make a point so I’ll help you.
The guy who was a MA Senator for decades was a sexual deviant, a drunk and a murderer.
Guess what they have in common?
The (D).
Next?
CorporatePiggy on December 2, 2012 at 7:45 PM
I feel sorry for our country, which, as of recently anyway, was the greatest nation on earth. And we’re being led by children who’d say such petty things about Boehner, and then Obama, his tactics are just as bad, if not worse, saying the Republicans will be Scrooge. Disparaging and denigrating those he disagrees with. He uses MediScare when Paul Ryan is in the negotiating room, for goodness sake. Demagogue, denigrate, demonize. This is beneath our country’s leaders.
Paul-Cincy on December 2, 2012 at 7:55 PM
Funny she didn’t feel that way about Pelosi and Obamacare when they timed that unconstitutional piece of garbage down our throats.
Oh wait… Those are Ds… So they’re heroes…
Skywise on December 2, 2012 at 8:05 PM
She’s trying to make him cry…again. Burn baby, burn.
Dingbat63 on December 2, 2012 at 8:11 PM
Not anymore, it isn’t.
tsj017 on December 2, 2012 at 8:20 PM
Oh please. ace is the guy who thinks that rape jokes are the height of admiration – very tasteless, insane rape jokes … and then he gets all bent out of shape because Akin doesn’t believe in a rape exception for abortion (not that Akin has any power to do anything about it, anyhow).
If ace ever got taken seriously and people looked into what he had written and asked people he supported about it it would have been worse than anything Akin said.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on December 2, 2012 at 8:37 PM
That idiot Akin thought that he was chosen by ze gods. After the fiasco, the GOP begged him to step down, but no, he goes moaning and whining bout ‘party bosses’. And he promptly lost, just like we knew he would. And that gave us the corrupt and loony McCaskill.
tommy71 on December 2, 2012 at 8:54 PM
Anyone ask MacCaskil how the Dems plan to eliminate the other $920+ billion in the deficit if the Dems get their wish and stick it to the “rich”?
Yeah, I didn’t think so. No one asks and they have no plan, because they do not care about trillion dollar deficits.
I feel sorry for Boehner for another reason. He doesn’t seem able to effectively articulate what I just said.
farsighted on December 2, 2012 at 9:18 PM
Thank the RNC for McCaskill’s continued presence and continued anti-American extreme Liberal idiocy in the Senate.
It did not have to be this way.
landlines on December 2, 2012 at 11:13 PM
My only issue with those blaming Akin here, is how did he lose us North Dakota? Or Montana?
I do believe that Brunner or Steelman would have been a better candidate. I also believe that the GOP has recruiting issues it’s not even attempting to sort that mean we are leaving winnable races on the table: DeMint always endorses the most conservative candidate
electable. Huckabee backs the most boring SoCon. RNC backs the establishment RINO. Palin backs the woman. Romney backs whoever won the primary two days prior. Rarely they all agree and it works out. More often than not it’s a clusterfark, Missouri the prime example of all time.All that said, with the inability to turn out white working class voters and the indifference to fighting voter fraud in the cities leading to D+6 turnout, there isn’t any important swing-state or light red-state race we’re going to win. Brunner or Steelman wouldn’t have helped us here. Right now, it seems the establishment believes the answer is hoping the Dems decide not to apply it to races where BHO isn’t running, mixed with a bit of amnesty to pander to the 4% of the electorate where we’re falling behind. Stupid party is continuing to be stupid.
If that’s the strategery here, then I say might as well go with DeMint’s primary picking rationale as stated above – pick the most conservative, and screw electability entirely. Who cares if we have a Ted Cruz or a Christine O’Donnell, if we aren’t going to do the grunt work it takes to win anyway.
Gingotts on December 3, 2012 at 1:39 AM