McCaskill to GOP: If You Hate the Stimulus, Give it Back

Sweeeet

FROM TPM:
It's not always easy being a Democratic politician from Missouri. The Republican-controlled state government there pulls no punches attacking Democrats in Washington--and by extension Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)--for reckless spending, even as Missouri itself, bruised by recession, benefits from that spending. Well, now she's hitting back.

McCaskill has written a sharply-worded letter to two particularly critical Missouri state legislators. The letter, dated February 9, takes the lawmakers to task for blasting the stimulus while using the funds to help bridge the state's budget gap. She writes, "I have noticed that you and many of your colleagues have been highly critical of some of the emergency spending that has gone on since the financial meltdown in September 2008."

McCaskill also asks the legislators--State Sen. Rob Mayer, who chairs the Appropriations Committee, and State Rep. Allen Icet, who chairs the Budget Committee--what they did with the $1.5 billion in stimulus funds they will have spent by July.

"How was that money allocated?" McCaskill asks. "Did it go to education, economic development, corrections or other needs of the state?"
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/02/give-it-back-then-mccaskill-swats-mo-gop-for-stimulus-hypocrisy.php





http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/documents/2010/02/mccaskill-asks-mo-state-legislators-to-put-stimulus-money-where-their-mouths-are.php?page=1

Very nicely done. :thumbsup:

how they trashed and voted against the stimulus, then went around their states handing out oversize checks, as if this money came from them....
AND praising the money

She knows her stuff, she pulls no punches. She could go on to much bigger things some day! ;)

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:thumbsup: :toast: to Senator McCaskill. Hope more Dems follow her lead.

Senator McCaskill, :yourock:

:bounce:

Rec'd.

for infrastructure anyways, but since it's part of the stimulus it's suddenly bad.

In March 2003 Kit Bond (R) Senator from MO asked for $60 Billion for highways - and suddenly money from the stimulus is bad for the same thing?

This should be on the front page of the newspaper!

Smart, feisty and able to decapitate state legislatures is a single swipe...

I am smitten.:loveya:

She was one of Obama's earliest and most ardent supporters--maybe that's the reason I like her so much.

Cheers, Sen. McCaskill.

I thought I was reading The Onion. It is usually the other way around. This is the kind of letter I dream of seeing. Hard to believe one of ours had the spine to actually write it.

i think she was the one who started asking people in her audience questions. she said how there was tort reform and then asked if any of the people's health costs had gone down and nobody raised their hand.

showing that tort reform is bs the wingnuts bring up anything we are discussing costs.

How many people in Missouri read TPM? She should have this published in local papaers. According to the "cc:" on page 2, that was not done.