Senator McCaskill opposes extending unemployment benefits

(KMOV) – President Barack Obama is for extending unemployment but it may run out if Congress does not act soon to continue long-term unemployment assistance.

Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill told News 4 that she does not support extending any unemployment benefits any further.

http://www.kmov.com/news/local/Senator-McCaskill-opposes-extending-unemployment-benefits-127339513.html

:argh:

and it is certainly a shame.

She is simply in campaign mode in a state that is now pretty much a solid red state instead of the bellweather purple state that it used to be. I suspect if she was not up for re-election next year, she would publicly support an extension.

moment she took office. I am amazed at some of the email responses I get from this "Democrat."

We should expect representatives to represent their district on EVERY vote. If that's what she's doing then fine. But if she changes her view in 2013 then back the next election I will have no respect for her.

Either her district wants this and she should lean that way every time or her district doesn't and she should always be against it. Or it may be an issue where she's willing to tell her district she's going to go against them (every time) but hopes they are satisfied with everything else she does. Or she could say it's an iffy issue and she'll go the way she can trade her vote for the best other option. Some representatives actually "grow" and change their vote (once). But if you're going to change because of "campaign mode" I don't like you whichever side you claim to be on. Stand for something or go home.

she talk with her constituents. I'll bet the majority want benefits extended. They know that millions of people with no income have no9 money to spend, and that will harm the ecomomy further, not help it.

what does she know about paying rent and the electric bill. She's just another repugnant.

McCaskill. Get more uptempo people to face a republican in a race that democrats need to win and can win with one of the three saner Pols.

ran against Blunt in the last Senate election and got beat by him. I would think that Russ would be an idea as he is losing his Congressional District to redistricting and could be looking for a place to land. I believe he already announced that he is going to run again for Congress but a primary against Claire might not be such a bad idea.

she will be easy to roll over.

Claire appears to be disingenuous at every turn. The only reason she won in 2006 is that the anti-Bush sentiment.

I find her statements through the years to sound vey much like a member of the GOP.

Does she have any significant Democrat challengers in the primary?

I haven't heard of anyone

So why should she care about the unemployed?

By what license could she in the future?

That is pretty unacceptable, she should be pressed hard on this.

and she is moving to the right in hopes that voters will forget her Yes vote on the HCR bill.

Read here: http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2011/08/kmov-unsuprisingly-misrepresents.html

And here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/10/claire-mccaskill-unemployment-benefits_n_923270.html