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| | A millionaire, McCaskill was criticized concerning the "Air Claire" scandal relating to how she tapped into her Senate budget to fund her private airplane.<ref>http://www.humanevents.com/2011/03/22/air-claire/</ref> McCaskill has been criticized for her pro-abortion and [[racist]] views.<ref>https://www.missourigreenparty.org/senator_mccaskill</ref> | | A millionaire, McCaskill was criticized concerning the "Air Claire" scandal relating to how she tapped into her Senate budget to fund her private airplane.<ref>http://www.humanevents.com/2011/03/22/air-claire/</ref> McCaskill has been criticized for her pro-abortion and [[racist]] views.<ref>https://www.missourigreenparty.org/senator_mccaskill</ref> |
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| | + | Regarding the [[Jeff Sessions]] affair, [[Wesley Pruden]] of ''The Washington Times'' wrote: |
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| | + | *Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, in demanding the attorney general's head, said that as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee for 10 years she had never met the Russian ambassador. She couldn’t imagine that any worthy senator would. She forgot that in the digital age facts are hard to kill graveyard dead. Then she spent the afternoon trying to explain why she would have made such a categorical statement after several tweets about visits with the Russian ambassador (she said it was about American adoptions of Russian children) were discovered and published on the internet.<ref> [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/2/jeff-sessions-affair-shows-republicans-must-stick-/ On the eve of the insurrection]</ref> |
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| | + | When [[Al Franken]] was caught in a sex scandal, she proceeded to return a $30,000 donation to her campaign that he made to her. |
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| | + | Taking a page out of the DNC leaks and John Podesta playbook, when she was caught on tape admitting to lying and deceiving voters, she never denied the authenticity of her own words, but played the victim for being caught. |
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| | + | ==Attacks on John McCain== |
| | + | McCaskill was the co-chair of [[Barack Obama]]’s 2008 [[president]]ial [[campaign]]. She criticized [[John McCain]]'s age, saying "Other people talk about his [[melanoma]]. We’re talking about a reality here that we have to face." <ref>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/mccaskill-to-st.html</ref> Claire McCaskill has voted with a majority of her Democratic colleagues 78.4% of the time during the current [[Congress]].<ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m001170/</ref> She supported the 2009 Economic Stimulus Package. |
| | + | <!--On September 6, 2006, she publicly stated that "[[George Bush]] let people die on rooftops in [[New Orleans]] because they were poor and because they were black," when addressing [[Hurricane Katrina]] victims.--> |
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| | Her challenger in 2012 wss [[movement conservative]] [[Todd Akin]], and [[Democrat]]s will have a difficult time reelecting her. The [[Democratic National Convention]] decided against holding it in [[Missouri]], perhaps in part because of the political weakness of Claire McCaskill and her need to distance herself from the [[Obama Administration]] in order to have any chance of being reelected. | | Her challenger in 2012 wss [[movement conservative]] [[Todd Akin]], and [[Democrat]]s will have a difficult time reelecting her. The [[Democratic National Convention]] decided against holding it in [[Missouri]], perhaps in part because of the political weakness of Claire McCaskill and her need to distance herself from the [[Obama Administration]] in order to have any chance of being reelected. |
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| − | On September 6, 2006, she publicly stated that "[[George Bush]] let people die on rooftops in [[New Orleans]] because they were poor and because they were black," when addressing [[Hurricane Katrina]] victims.
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| − | McCaskill was the co-chair of [[Barack Obama]]’s 2008 [[president]]ial [[campaign]]. She criticized [[John McCain]]'s age, saying "Other people talk about his [[melanoma]]. We’re talking about a reality here that we have to face." <ref>http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/mccaskill-to-st.html</ref> Claire McCaskill has voted with a majority of her Democratic colleagues 78.4% of the time during the current [[Congress]].<ref>http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/members/m001170/</ref> She supported the 2009 Economic Stimulus Package.
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| − | Regarding the [[Jeff Sessions]] affair, [[Wesley Pruden]] of ''The Washington Times'' wrote:
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| − | *Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri, in demanding the attorney general's head, said that as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee for 10 years she had never met the Russian ambassador. She couldn’t imagine that any worthy senator would. She forgot that in the digital age facts are hard to kill graveyard dead. Then she spent the afternoon trying to explain why she would have made such a categorical statement after several tweets about visits with the Russian ambassador (she said it was about American adoptions of Russian children) were discovered and published on the internet.<ref> [https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/mar/2/jeff-sessions-affair-shows-republicans-must-stick-/ On the eve of the insurrection]</ref>
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| − | When [[Al Franken]] was caught in a sex scandal, she proceeded to return a $30,000 donation to her campaign that he made to her.
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| − | Taking a page out of the DNC leaks and John Podesta playbook, when she was caught on tape admitting to lying and deceiving voters, she never denied the authenticity of her own words, but played the victim for being caught.
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