Dem Staffer Who Filmed His Sexcapades in a Senate Hearing Room Later Checked...
CNN's Scott Jennings Knew Exactly Why Seinfeld Creator Larry David Attacked Bill Maher
New Jersey Republicans Are Getting Help From a Familiar Individual
Weirdo Lib Wearing What Appears to Be a Luigi Mangione T-Shirt Attacks Trump...
Independent Journalist Used Two Words That Perfectly Described Taylor Lorenz
Is This Trump's Best Line From the White House Easter Egg Roll?
The Left's Obsession With Clipping Pete Hegseth Is Bordering on Psychotic
How Trump Handled Biggs Entering the AZ Governor's Race After He Already Endorsed...
The White House Responds After Harvard Files Lawsuit Against Trump Administration Over Fun...
A Familiar Face Jumps in Race for California Governor
Harvard Presidents—On Sale at Macy's
Homeland Security Sets the Record Straight About Those German Teens Who Were ‘Deported’...
Scott Jennings, Mike Lawler Offer Crucial Reminders About Funding for Harvard in Light...
Dylan Mulvaney Plans on Leaving the US. Here's Where He's Headed.
Exposed: Another Bogus Immigration 'Controversy' Falls Apart
Tipsheet

Missouri's "Senator Two-Face"

Throughout her political career, Missouri's Democratic US Senator, Claire McCaskill, has made a practice of talking like a centrist and voting like a liberal.  There have been plenty of examples;
Advertisement
listen to her call for Americans to pick up "pitchforks" if the Bush tax cuts are extended and even admit to beating the class-warfare drum (so much for "civility"!),  even as she and her husband have, in the past, used Bermuda as a tax shelter.

But now, McCaskill has taken the two-faced act to a whole 'nother level.

Even as she gave every appearance to her constituents of trying to use her influence --  as one of the President's best friends in the Senate, and one of the first to have endorsed his presidential bid -- to help St. Louis secure the Democratic Convention, she was privately lobbying behind the scenes to have her city passed over.  (And after it happened as she wanted, McCaskill had the nerve to proclaim herself "bitterly disappointed" that St. Louis didn't get the convention!).

It seems that McCaskill was worried that having the convention in St. Louis would have taken attention and money from her re-election bid.  So too bad for a magnificent city -- which has suffered terribly from the erosion of its manufacturing base and the departure of many of the big companies (like McDonnell Douglass and Anheuser Busch) that used to be headquartered there.  Claire couldn't share.
Advertisement

When her personal political interests and her state's interests collided, we see where McCaskill came down.

Missouri is my home state.  Its people are straight talkers who say what they mean, and mean what they say.  They deserve a lot better than "Senator Two-Face."

Join the conversation as a VIP Member

Recommended

Trending on Townhall Videos

Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement