Lloyd Smith, Executive Director of the Missouri Republican Party, issued the following statement on Sen. Claire McCaskill’s vote to invoke cloture on the Democrats’ health care bill:

“Claire McCaskill has turned her back on Missourians.  Despite a recent poll showing that two-thirds of Missourians do not support the Obama-Pelosi takeover of our health care system, McCaskill joined her liberal colleagues to support a bloated 2,074 page bill that will do nothing to lower health care costs for Missouri’s families.  She chose the massive tax increases, Medicare cuts, and onerous regulations of an out-of-control government over real common-sense reform.  What little was left of McCaskill’s reputation as a fiscal watchdog has been forever destroyed.”

Survey Source: Public Policy Polling, released 11/18/2009