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McCaskill rubberstamps $1.2 trillion more in Obama debt

January 26, 2012

Chameleon Claire votes to increase debt ceiling to $16.4 trillion less than four years after blasting fiscal “train wreck”

Less than four years after blasting Republicans over the national debt, Chameleon Claire McCaskill today voted to rubberstamp Barack Obama’s request to increase the debt ceiling by another $1.2 trillion dollars.

This vote was made necessary by the McCaskill-supported flood of federal spending since Barack Obama took office.

But in a recently unearthed video from 2008, Claire McCaskill cast reining in the national debt as a “moral imperative,” and she complained that the government was presenting future generations with “a train wreck of unprecedented proportions.”

On the Senate floor, McCaskill complained that the national debt had gone up by $3.7 trillion in the first 7 ½ years of the previous administration, and she bemoaned the $9.3 trillion debt ceiling.

By comparison, in just three years, Barack Obama and Claire McCaskill have added $4.6 trillion to the national debt—and, thanks to McCaskill’s vote, the debt ceiling will stand at $16.4 trillion (a stunning $7.1 trillion higher than the amount that drew McCaskill’s ire less than four years ago).

“Four years ago, Chameleon Claire claimed that too much federal spending was creating ‘a train wreck of unprecedented proportions’ for future generations.  But today, McCaskill happily agreed to saddle our children and grandchildren with outrageous amounts of new debt,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “The only thing worse than Chameleon Claire McCaskill’s hypocrisy is the damage she and Barack Obama have done to our nation’s future.”

The video:

Transcript, Claire McCaskill, June 18, 2008:

“Our debt, our debt has gone up by 3.7 trillion. We now have a debt of 9.3 trillion dollars. Now really—this is a change that is not just important—it’s urgent. We must be fiscally accountable for taxpayer money. Sounds nice, right?  It’s a moral imperative for our kids. It’s the right thing to do for the generation that comes behind us—for my children, for my grandchildren, for your children, for your grandchildren.  We are presenting them with a train wreck of unprecedented proportions if we don’t get our fiscal house in order.”