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Another day, another rubberstamp: Robin Carnahan defers to Obama on Kagan appointment

July 21, 2010

‘Rubberstamp’ Robin Carnahan is at it again.  This time, she has come out in favor of Elena Kagan’s appointment to the United States Supreme Court—just the latest in a series of revelations proving that Carnahan would vote lockstep with the radical Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.

“President Obama has begged Missourians to send his rubberstamp, Robin Carnahan, to the U.S. Senate because he ‘need[s] another vote.’  It’s no wonder Obama is working so hard to elect Carnahan—after all, her support of Elena Kagan’s appointment to the Supreme Court is just the latest example of Carnahan’s blind deference to Obama’s liberal agenda,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “From the federal health care takeover to the failed stimulus bill to the job-killing cap-and-tax and now the Kagan nomination, Robin Carnahan has repeatedly demonstrated that she would rubberstamp every major component of the Obama agenda.”

As reported by the Associated Press, Robin Carnahan said that she supports Kagan’s appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. According to video of the exchange, Carnahan announced that she would support the appointment because “the president… get[s] to chose Supreme Court appointees.”

And despite the fact that the Senate is charged by the U.S. Constitution to provide “advice and consent,” Carnahan also claims that we should “just get on with it and move on to the next thing.”

According to Gallup, Kagan has the lowest public support of any confirmed nominee to the Supreme Court in recent history.

In addition to the Kagan appointment, Carnahan would also rubberstamp the following:

• Carnahan would rubber stamp the health care bill
  • Radio Host: Just to be crystal clear, you would have voted for the health care reform bill?  Carnahan: Yes. (Carnahan on KCUR, May 7, 2010)

• Carnahan would rubber stamp the public option
  • St Louis Beacon, November 11, 2009: Robin Carnahan reaffirmed her support Wednesday for some sort of a public option when it comes to health-care coverage.  “I’m less concerned about what we call it, than what it does,” said Carnahan during a brief interview

• Carnahan would rubber stamp the so-called stimulus bill
  • Carnahan: “I don’t think it was an option to do nothing… People who kept saying no to everything … don’t have a lot of credibility on this stuff.” (Post-Dispatch, March 7, 2009)

• Carnahan would rubber stamp cap-and-tax
  • Columbia Missourian: Carnahan said she could “support some kind of cap-and-trade” energy policy (Associated Press, July 21, 2009)

• Carnahan would rubber stamp card-check
  • St Louis Beacon: “Robin is supportive” of the Employee Free Choice Act, said campaign spokesman Tony Wyche. (St Louis Beacon, April 21, 2009)

• Carnahan would rubber stamp the closure of Guantanamo Bay
  • Carnahan: “The Guantanamo Bay issue is one that we really need to get past. It has been used according to military experts, as a recruiting tool to get more terrorists to attack us, and so we need to do things that reflect our values. One of those is not to have these kind of off-shore prisons.”  (Springfield News-Leader, February 7, 2010)

• Carnahan would rubber stamp Obama’s oil drilling moratorium
  • Associated Press: Carnahan’s campaign said all new drilling should be put on hold for a while. (AP, June 4, 2010)