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Robin Carnahan wants to make it even easier to rubberstamp Obama agenda

July 29, 2010

Robin Carnahan is so enamored with the Obama agenda that she actually wants to make it easier for Democrats to rubberstamp it.  Despite bipartisan opposition, Carnahan supports an attempt by liberals to change Senate rules and make it easier to break a filibuster.

“Rubberstamp Robin Carnahan wants to change the rules to make it easier for her and her liberal allies to ram the reckless and unpopular Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda down the public’s throat,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party. “Across Missouri and the nation, people are standing up and saying ‘NO’ to the national Democrats’ disastrous liberal policies, but Robin Carnahan is so desperate to force the Obama agenda on the American people that she is willing to quash dissent and steamroll the opposition.”

The Hill newspaper reports on an effort by liberal Democrats to make it easier to cut off Senate debate, noting that Carnahan has “voiced support for lowering the 60-vote requirement for ending filibusters.”

It should come as no surprise that Carnahan would resort to extreme measures to rubberstamp the Obama agenda and pass the liberal agenda by any means necessary.  After all, Carnahan has supported every major policy proposal by President Obama:

• 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
  • AP, July 21, 2009: Carnahan said she could “support some kind of cap-and-trade” energy policy

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

• 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
  • AP, June 4, 2010: Carnahan’s campaign said all new drilling should be put on hold for a while.

• Carnahan would rubber stamp Obama’s nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court
  • AP, July 20, 2010: Secretary of State Robin Carnahan, the leading Democrat in Missouri’s Senate race, says she supports Kagan’s appointment. Carnahan says Kagan is qualified and understands the law. She says presidents should be given deference in their Supreme Court appointments.