Here is a rough list of the Democrat Senators whose careers will be destroyed by voting for Utopiacare in the Senate:
Evan Bayh (IN)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Blanche Lincoln (AR)
Mark Pryor (AR)
Kent Conrad (ND)
Byron Dorgan (ND)
Tim Johnson (SD)
Mark Begich (AK)
Mark Warner (VA)
Jim Webb (VA)
Jon Tester (MT)
Robert Byrd (WV)
Kay Hagan (NC)
Claire McCaskill (MO)
Claire Bear is in a real spot these days.
Of all Dr. Utopia’s 2008 campaign surrogates, McCaskill was the most slavish and adoring. At one point, on his campaign plane, she appeared to be his personal flight attendant instead of the junior Senator from Missouri. She repeatedly said the reason she endorsed and campaigned for Dr. Utopia was that her “kids kept bugging and bugging” her to do it.
They would bug her in the morning.
They would bug her at night.
They would bug her in the garden.
They would bug her while reading “Twilight”.
Who are we kidding…Claire Bear doesn’t read. “I got me that book on tape thing and then I played it and heard someone talking and then I realized they were talking about that book Twilight, and so then I tweeted on Twitter about it and I just love those books on tape now. Reading makes my eyes hurt and the pudding in my skull hurt”.
She never read the Stimulus Spending bill that got rammed through Congress in February. We give her credit for copping to that, even if she did lamely claim “somebody smart told me about it”, believing that was appropriate enough for a United States Senator.
She doesn’t seem to have any intention to read the Utopiacare bill, either, before voting on that too. “I’m busy. I have to tweet on Twitter about this thing I saw on the sidewalk. There were ants all over it. At first, I thought it was an apple but then I tasted it and now I don’t know what it is but everyone on my staff is all mad at me again today, saying, “Senator, stop eating things you find on the street! We have a fridge full of healthy snacks for you!” I don’t like when they yell at me like that because I’m the Senator and if I want to eat whatever I find and keep those ants in my file cabinet drawers, then I’m GONNA DO IT!”.
As much as we think Claire McCaskill is the single worst Senator we’ve had in this nation in at least a generation, we almost feel sorry for her today. And not because her staff won’t let her eat things she finds on the sidewalk.
McCaskill is in an untenable position of her own making.
If she wants to run for re-election in 2012, she cannot vote for the Utopicare bill, as her constituents will eviscerate her.
If she doesn’t vote for Utopiacare, she will be punished severely by the DNC and her “bug buddy”, Dr. Utopia — a man who has proven how little loyalty he has for anyone who helped him get to where he is, even the slavishly devoted like McCaskill.
If McCaskill does not vote for Utopiacare, the DNC will not muster ACORN and its offspring for McCaskill in the urban areas around St. Louis…and without that turnout, McCaskill can’t win statewide. Even WITH ACORN in full battle mode, John McCain won Missouri in 2008. That means McCaskill is in deep, deep trouble in 2012 no matter what she does.
The Nutroots and Lefties are already clobbering her for not coming out swinging as Dr. Utopia’s favorite flight attendant on Utopiacare. She’s been trying to stay as far away from all this as possible because the abortion funding provisions are ripping the Democrats in half, despite the MSM’s greatest efforts to claim the civil war’s happening in the Republican tent.
What’s interesting to us is how mad we, personally get, about the abortion provisions in Utopiacare. While everything is still vague and nebulous and an actual complete bill does not exist, we personally have great problems with any tax money going to fund abortions. We grew up as Democrats and we support a woman’s right to choose what happens to her own body — but we do not believe the government should be able to use tax money to pay for abortions. That’s not where federal dollars, in such short supply, should be spent.
Utopiacare would take money out of your paycheck and use it to fund abortions…which, if you really want to think about it, makes every taxpayer complicit in those abortions because we all will have helped pay for them by paying taxes to this government.
If conservatives get the word out on this, and if they make the public see things this way, there could be an uprising the likes of which we have never seen.
Because even those of us who have always been pro-choice have a problem with tax dollars being used this way. Dr. Utopia, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid have set the Democrats on a path towards disaster and madness.
Claire Bear is the person we most want to see defeated in the Senate in 2012. We want her to lose her seat so spectacularly she has trouble finding a job post-government work and needs to “bug” her kids for their babysitting money to get by. We hope she is defeated so badly she retires to private life and is never, ever heard from again.
But, as much as we would hate to be her on any given day, we REALLY would hate to be Claire McCaskill now.
We have no idea how she gets herself out of this trap. Either she infuriates the Left and dooms her reelection by voting against Utopiacare, or she votes for it and infuriates Missouri and seals her doom that way.
Claire’s Choice is definitely not an easy one to make…which is why she’ll probably bug her kids or a particularly interesting raccoon she spots to do it for her.
November 11, 2009 at 2:54 pm
I don’t think Webb and Warner are due for re-election til ‘12 and ‘14 ? I donated to both their campaigns, so my “love letters” should carry a little more weight :) I hope.
November 11, 2009 at 3:24 pm
You are actually 180 degrees wrong on the issue of abortion funding in the health care bill. It is currently against the law for federal funding to be used for abortions. The healthcare bill doesn’t change that. What it does do is state that even women who want to pay for their own, non-subsidized, insurance, if it is insurance that is on this new “insurance exchange,” it cannot provide for abortions.
That is having the federal government prohibit certain private insurance providers from insuring abortion. It is not “the federal government funding abortion.” It’s a complete gov’t intrusion between a woman and her being able to pay for her own insurance that covers what she wants/needs it to cover.
And, if you all don’t realize that the end goal of these “insurance exchanges” is to get every single private insurance plan on it eventually, then you’re an ostrich.
More atrociously, the bill requires insurers to cover a host of health care, including pre-existing conditions, but does not require coverage of basic women’s gynecological care – including check-ups and birth control! This is about absolute and utter contempt for women.
November 11, 2009 at 7:25 pm
General ob/gyn care will never be removed from healthcare in this country. Say what you want about women getting the shitty end of every deal, but they will not tolerate such a thing. Not when boner pills are covered for all men, including sex offenders, as outrageous as that sounds it’s true. Anyway, women will fight this to the bitter end and win. It is a matter of life and death, as in papalomous virus and other deadly diseases that women are succeptable to.
Abortion is one thing, but basic life saving preventative medicine will not be denied to women.
November 11, 2009 at 3:42 pm
I don’t want my tax dollars going to lots of things that the government spends my money on, but I don’t get to pick and choose. I am personally opposed to abortion, but a health care bill that does not cover women’s reproductive health is not a universal health care bill. Abortion is a legal procedure in the United States and as such, should be funded as a part of a woman’s health choices. What if the people who believe that homosexual activity and intravenous drug use are immoral insisted that medical treatment for HIV should be excluded from health care coverage? HIV is avoidable just like pregnancy. In the past there have been insurance policies that did not cover AIDS. Let’s go back there. I opposed this health insurance reform bill for other reasons before Stupak became an issue so it is just icing on the cake, but I am truly tired of men of any political persuasion deciding what health care choices are acceptable or not acceptable for women. A basic well-care oby/gyn visit every year should be covered for all women, and should the occasion arise that a woman and her doctor decide that termination of a pregnancy is the optimum choice, then that should be covered, too. And of course, we should cover treatment for HIV, but I’ll give up abortion coverage if you’ll give up HIV.
November 11, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Oh lord, that headline!
Careful how you combine those words men!
LOL
November 11, 2009 at 3:54 pm
Claire Bear! LOL I love it!
November 11, 2009 at 5:21 pm
RE: Kay Hagan (D-NC) You’re darn skippy she’s going to take heat over voting for any sweeping “government option” health-care bill in the Senate. She, to me (a North Carolinian) was one of numerous inept pols swept into Congress by the ACORN “Dem ticket” voters. She had no business getting elected, even if Dole was only marginally better over her single 6-year term.
Our current Gov (Bev Perdue D-NC) also was swept in by the straight-ticket voters, and for what, a pack of smokes or a Big 40 of their favorite brew? Right. Elections have consequences people, so check out Public Policy Polling for Perdue’s latest approval numbers. Hint: They’re in the 20s.
My advice to all future voters: Know the pols, know their past, know their positions BEFORE they move to the center to get (re)elected. Vote for how their principles align with your own and not because someone else as clueless as you about them said they were cool.
November 11, 2009 at 5:27 pm
McCaskill will not be up for re-election until ‘12 and she has got to go I know I will work overtime to get of her.
I am pro-life and in no way should my tax dollars pay for an abortion unless it is a matter of life and death.
November 11, 2009 at 6:48 pm
And I don’t want to pay for executions or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, or . . . But that’s the way it is. How about we all get a long checklist every April 15th and we get to check off what we’ll pay for and what we won’t? What do you think will get funded and what won’t? National Parks? I use those – check. Air Force One?- no check, the Potus can learn to teleconference. MS research? -no one I know has MS – no check. Breast cancer research- sure, why not – Check. Viagra for Bob Dole? naw, he’s old, he’s gotten enough already- no check.
November 11, 2009 at 8:40 pm
That picture just turns my stomach. She reminds me of all the little girls from grade school, and their sickening crushes on the popular boys. That photo alone must make her ashamed of herself.
November 11, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Several of us in Big Sky Country are chortling over the latest rumors regarding Jon Tester’s potential in 2012. It was pretty much a given that he had a safe seat, but last week, reports of our lone representative, Denny Rehberg, visiting with the Republican Senatorial Committee about taking Jon on has sent ripples of horror through the state Democratic Party. Denny runs statewide every two years and has very high approval ratings. If Tester votes for either healthcare or Cap-n-Tax, he might as well put jam in his pockets – cause he’s toast in this state! And – of course if he votes against healthcare the libs will fry him. Stay tuned, folks.
November 12, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Every time a hot button issue comes up, I think, “Uh oh, here we go.” But!… you guys amaze and delight me every single time. You have really opened my eyes to what we all have in common as Americans. I count it a privilege to read you daily.
November 13, 2009 at 1:33 am
Webb will vote for the bill; no matter what it says. I was in Warner’s office last week and while he and his staff says that he is undecided, I could tell by what the receptionist was saying that he is voting for it.
Warner was a decent governor. I voted for him and am not sorry that I did. But he has shifted more to the left now that he is in the senate.
I live in Virginia as you can tell. And you may also guess that I am against the bill.
The abortion ammendment is a trojan horse; much like everything else in this bill. What the federal government does is shift the payment responsibility to a non-government agency. Even though they technically fund that agency they are not the ones writing the checks. So our tax dollars do pay for abortions. That is happening now, and will continue to happen.