Claire McCaskill Votes To Pay The DaneGeld

If you're the kind of family that likes to discuss politics, Claire McCaskill and the Senate Democrats have dropped a bunkerbuster on your Christmas meal.

With Ben Nelson taking the Medicaid payoff to be the 60th cloture vote, all pretenses of good government or integrity have been swept away, and the Democratic Party exposed for what they are - an elitist bunch driven only by a grasping desire for power, willing to sell off any and all principles for partisan politics.

There is no defense of the Medicaid buyout.  To win 60 votes, Senate Democrats had to exempt an entire state from paying its share of Medicaid taxes.

In Missouri, Governor Matt Blunt was viciously attacked for cutting Medicaid to save the state budget. In voting for cloture, Senator McCaskill has voted to have Missourians pay both for our poor, and those of Nebraska. 

There is no defense. The Congress now maintains that bribery to drive legislation on a purely partisan vote is acceptable.  The Democrats will regret this.  In addition to sweeping a number of their rotten ilk out of office, they will find that every legislative decision from here on out comes at a price.  What Senator in the Democratic Caucus can now afford to vote their conscience, where there is taxpayer money to be had?

Harry Reid, I've some Kipling verses for you.  

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

The mask is off.  McCaskill voted for a bill that taxes us for years before giving benefits, and then counts that as deficit neutral.  She voted for a plan that doesn't cover Congress.  And she voted to give North Dakota your money because their senator would bribe us.

Is there anyone willing to defend her?  Of course not.  What she has done is to betray us all.  No quarter.  2012 can't come soon enough.

Comments

[DHolder]

At Jefferson College this summer,Claire McCaskill unqualifiedly stated that "I'm not voting for this bill and I don't know anyone who is."
Of course that was the House Bill and not the exact bill, however she purposely mislead those in attendance with her words. I thought she was better than that, but once again I have been dissapointed.

I cannot wait until November.

[Gretchen]

She also asked, "don't you trust me?"...nope, never did, never will. She is part of the most corrupt Senate in the worst administration ever.

Off with her head...figuratively, of course. 2012. 2012. 2012. Can't wait.

[BBinMO]

Claire McCaskill is not interested in listening to her constiuents; she's only interested in what Obama tells her to think. By her vote, Claire McCaskill is actively participating in depriving seniors of future medical care needed for their quality of life. She has betrayed the people of Missouri. Disgraceful. Who believes this grifter anymore? And you know what? Robin Carnahan is Claire McCaskill, jr. Carnahan is eager to not listen to Missourians either - another Obama drone.