“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.

Ike Skelton is in the political fight of his life after voting with Nancy Pelosi more than 94% of the time, and now he is looking to the San Francisco liberal to bail out his out-of-touch campaign by purchasing television ads in the 4^th district.

“Ike Skelton voted for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House four times—now she is repaying the favor by using her political operation in a vain attempt to save his political career,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “In return for her support, Nancy Pelosi expects Ike Skelton to come back to Missouri and act as a salesman for the national Democrats’ liberal agenda—an agenda that Skelton voted for 94% of the time and which includes the devastating cap-and-trade bill that Skelton supported.  But Missourians aren’t buying what they’re selling, and now it’s time to send someone new to Washington to clean up the mess that Pelosi and Skelton are leaving behind.”

The New York Times is reporting that Nancy Pelosi’s DCCC has “reserved television time in 40 districts across the country, including… Ike Skelton of Missouri.”

But Pelosi’s efforts in Missouri will be in vain.  In the same Times article, Nancy Pelosi effectively explained why Skelton’s candidacy is doomed, saying: “I feel very confident about the ability of my members, who are the greatest salespersons in America, to go into their districts and make the case for what we did.”

Skelton, who has voted for Nancy Pelosi four times (2009, 2007, 2005, and 2003), should be more than willing to act as a “salesperson” for Pelosi’s agenda—or at the very least, explain why he has voted with Pelosi more than 94% of the time.

“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)

“Robin Carnahan is piling up the ‘bull’ in an attempt to obscure her own dismal record,” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “Carnahan’s hypocrisy ranging from lobbyists to leadership PACs, and backroom deals should have sent the bull-o-meter through the roof.”

A few examples of Robin Carnahan’s “bull:”

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Stop the lobbyist revolving door.
FACT: Robin Carnahan knows something about the lobbyist revolving door.  Two of Robin Carnahan’s brothers were lobbyists in Missouri when her father was governor. (Source: Missouri Ethics Commission)

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Prohibit lobbyist war rooms/Publish details of meetings online.
FACT: Robin Carnahan opened her office and staff to radical special interest group ACORN and worked with a host of liberal lobbying groups to defeat photo ID. The only reason any of this is public is because the Missouri Republican Party released thousands of documents showing that Carnahan gave ACORN special access to her office. (Documents available at www.acorncarnahan.com)

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Abolish leadership PACs.
FACT: According to OpenSecrets.org, Carnahan has accepted more than $260,000 from leadership PAC, including Harry Reid’s Searchlight Leadership Fund and Claire McCaskill’s PAC, Missourians for Accountability and Change.  Also, from 2001-2009, Robin’s mother operated the Jean A. Carnahan Political Action Committee. (Source: Opensecrets.org)

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Prohibit back room deal making (special provisions targeting specific interests).
FACT: Robin Carnahan supported the pork-laden stimulus bill and the health care bill, which were passed because of Democrats’ back room deals and arm twisting.

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Post text of bills online 72 hours before vote.
FACT: Carnahan supported health care bill and stimulus, among others, which were not transparent.  In fact, Nancy Pelosi famously proclaimed that “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.”

CARNAHAN CLAIM: Strengthen ethics enforcement.
FACT: Robin Carnahan would be faced with a serious conflict of interest from day one because of her brother Tom’s lobbying efforts on behalf of the wind industry. We already know she supported the stimulus, which included wind industry tax incentives that Tom previously called “vitally important to the wind industry.” (Source: St. Joseph News-Press, January 25, 2008)

Robin Carnahan is piling up the ‘bull’ in an attempt to obscure her own dismal record. Carnahan’s hypocrisy ranging from lobbyists to leadership PACs, and backroom deals should have sent the bull-o-meter through the roof.

According to a recent interview in The Oregonian, McCaskill blames Americans for being “wrapped around this notion that things have gone crazy in Washington.”

“Most Missourians are understandably frustrated and upset with the reckless spending and overreach from national Democrats like Claire McCaskill.  But McCaskill doesn’t believe that anything is wrong with Washington—in fact, she thinks everyone else is ‘wrapped around this notion that things have gone crazy,’” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “McCaskill is so busy shilling for the Obama agenda that she no longer believes that government takeovers, tax increases, soaring debt, and out-of-control spending are ‘crazy.’ But the rest of us know crazy when we see it.”

Since she got to Washington, McCaskill has been part of the problem—voting lockstep with the liberal agenda.

From the disastrous federal health care bill to the wasteful so-called stimulus bill to allowing the EPA to levy arcane regulations, McCaskill has blindly supported nearly every aspect of the Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda.  In doing so, she has turned her back on the overwhelming majority of Missourians who oppose the reckless liberal agenda.

“Robin Carnahan has been accused of ‘phony’ opposition to TARP, and now she is finally acknowledging this fact by stating that TARP was ‘needed to stabilize the economy,’” said Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party.  “What’s even worse, her attacks fail to mention that Barack Obama and her own brother voted for TARP.  In fact, Carnahan’s selective memory is so shameless that even the reliably-liberal New York Times couldn’t ignore it any longer.”

Carnahan’s attacks are even worse considering that she now acknowledges that TARP may have been necessary to stabilize the economy, according to the Sedalia Democrat.

Some reporters are even beginning to question whether Carnahan ever really opposed TARP at all—or if it was just a poll-tested campaign platitude.  In fact, a Kansas City Star columnist recently accused Carnahan of “pandering” and blasted her and her previous criticism of TARP as “phony.”

Despite her newfound support of the bill, Carnahan continues her blatant attempt to score political points from the bill.

But even the liberal New York Times points out that Carnahan’s brother and President Obama, who campaigned for her last week, were supporters of TARP—a fact she conveniently omits from her stump speech.  The NY Times reported that Robin Carnahan attacked Roy Blunt at her fundraiser with Barack Obama, “not mentioning that Mr. Obama also backed the plan when he was a senator and presidential candidate, as did her brother, Russ, a Democratic House member.”

By Michael Jensen

The residents of this state owe a debt of gratitude to Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder who this week filed suit to halt the federal health care overhaul shoved through Congress by the Obama administration.

Kinder had promised to sue the feds over the plan and made good on that promise this week.

Kinder said the health care overhaul is unconstitutional and would make health care more expensive.

Kinder’s suit is one of many filed across the nation to protest the massive overhaul approved by Congress.
Federal officials said this week that they will fight the Kinder suit as they are the others filed elsewhere. They argue the new law is constitutional and dispute all claims filed in the lawsuit.

Kinder took the action because the state of Missouri has failed to address the problem. State officials say they are monitoring and studying the federal legislation but thus far, have failed to file suit.

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