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Claire McCaskill

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2012

    UPDATE: Sculptor Hard at Work on Bust of Rush Limbaugh for Missouri State Capitol

    Update, March 6: More information at the end of the post, including Senator Claire McCaskill's protest and an answer to commenter Mike N's question about whether this wad of bronze is funded by taxpayer money. ------- The eagle-eyed bloggers at Fired Up! Missouri posted the news earlier this after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2012

    As Obama Attacks Congress, McCaskill Becomes Vulnerable

    An interesting political article in today's New York Times pinpoints incumbent Sen. Claire McCaskill as a potential casualty this November if President Obama continues to campaign on an anti-Congress platform. Experts say the oft-deadlocked Congress of last year is a fair target for President Obama ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Net Worth of Missouri Congressional Delegation Tops $47.9 Million

    ​The Center for Responsive Politics recently released its report on the nation's wealthiest U.S. representatives and senators. No one from Missouri makes its Top 10 list, but that doesn't mean we don't have some worthy contenders. Turns out we actually have some of the richest -- and poorest -- po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2011

    Missouri's GOP Senate Candidates Seek to Create Space in Ideological Cluster

    Who will face off against Senator McCaskill in November 2012?​The race for the GOP U.S. Senate nomination in Missouri runs around a thin, muddy track. There isn't much elbow rooms for the candidates, three self-described conservative Republicans with no significant differences in policy positions ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    McCaskill Explains Her Absence from Obama's St. Louis Fundraiser

    ​As has been noted, Senator Claire McCaskill was not at either of President's Barack Obama's two separate fundraisers last night in St. Louis. Her absence has political junkies wondering if the senator, who was an early champion of Obama's first presidential campaign, will be as big of a supporter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 8, 2011

    Sarah Steelman and the "Clean Super Committee" Petition

    Can Sarah Steelman ride the anti-Washington wave all the way to Capitol Hill?​Republican Senate candidate Sarah Steelman has weak fundraising, subpar name recognition, and a primary opponent who has gained support from the seemingly powerful conservative wing of the party. Her only weapon may be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 2, 2011

    Missouri Senate Race Narratives Emerge from Debt Ceiling Debate

    Getcha popcorn ready: campaign season is heating up.​The narratives for one of the most high-profile senate races in America have begun to form. With the public's eyes on Capitol Hill for last couple of weeks, the major players -- Senator Claire McCaskill, Congressman Todd Akin, and former Sta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2011

    Todd Akin is One of Those Republicans Willing to See America Default on Debt

    ​Depending on which prominent economist you talk to, a failure to raise the debt ceiling by 12:00 a.m. (EST) August 2, 2011 would either be "doomsday," "calamitous," "a calamity," "serious, and we probably would be thrown into a recession," "could provoke a renewed financial crisis," or someth ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Video: McCaskill says McConnell "Has Lost His Mind"

    ​Remember that scene in "Almost Famous" when the plane seems like it's about to crash, so everybody starts making all these outrageous confessions? I once hit a man in Dearborn, Michigan... If I took an extra dollar or two it's 'cause I knew I'd earned it... I slept with Marta... I'm Gay! Pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Claire McCaskill Gives Karl Rove a Wave at St. Louis Airport

    Okay, so we just posted an item about Claire McCaskill. But this is just too good to pass up, and worthy of two McCaskill posts back-to-back. The U.S. Senator from Missouri tweeted at 12:15 p.m. today that she just passed Karl Rove at Lambert St. Louis International Airport. Given Rove's work with A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2011

    Claire McCaskill Third Most Vulnerable Senator, Washington Post Says

    Claire McCaskill: Vulnerable, but not because her challengers are so awesome or anything.​So Todd Akin is a smug know-it-all convinced that only those with his political beliefs are capable of respect for the Almighty. And so what if Sarah Steelman's campaign thinks 100 x 1,000 = 10,000?Never mind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 5, 2011

    Sarah Steelman Does Some Fuzzy Math

    Sorry, Sarah: 100 times 1,000 is actually $100,000.​Funny story in yesterday's Roll Call about Sarah Steelman, the Republican trying to take on Senator Claire McCaskill -- and, of course, push back Todd "Liberals Hate God" Akin, who would also like McCaskill's seat. Steelman has had to push back a ... More >>

  • News

    June 30, 2011

    It's Already 2012 for Claire McCaskill: Attack ads circulating online and on the radio

    Sorry, Sarah: 100 times 1,000 is actually $100,000.​Funny story in yesterday's Roll Call about Sarah Steelman, the Republican trying to take on Senator Claire McCaskill -- and, of course, push back Todd "Liberals Hate God" Akin, who would also like McCaskill's seat. Steelman has had to push back a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    How Much Does American Crossroads Hate Claire McCaskill?

    Watch your back, Claire. They're already out to get you.​You may have heard that Claire McCaskill, Missouri's senior senator, is running for re-election in 2012. She doesn't know who her Republican opponent is yet. (Congressman Todd Akin and former state treasurer and gubernatorial candidate S ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Claire McCaskill Asks FTC Chair to Watch for Gas Gouging

    Claire McCaskill: Not too pumped about gas prices.​With Memorial Day around the corner and gas prices flirting with the $4-a-gallon mark, Sen. Claire McCaskill and three colleagues yesterday sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jon Leibowitz, calling on him to investigate potenti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 29, 2011

    McCaskill's '04 Campaign Ad Criticized Opponent for Use of Private Plane

    Mayday McCaskill: This just isn't going to go away; is it?​Poor Claire McCaskill. The fiasco over her private airplane just won't go away. Last week, the news was that Missouri's Democratic senator had failed to pay personal property taxes on her $2 million dollar, private aircraft. Then came news ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2011

    Faux McCaskill Twitter Account, @onclaire, Mocks Plane Problems

    Oh, Claire​Claire McCaskill just can't catch a break.In addition to a fake Craigslist ad purporting to be from McCaskill trying to unload her "damn plane" and a $32,000 bill for taxes past due on the aforementioned aircraft, Missouri's Democratic Senator now has a fake Twitter account to deal with ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Mayday McCaskill Caught in a Tailspin Over Private Plane

    Look, I can explain. I was suffering altitude sickness.​A once high-flying Missouri politician plummeted to Earth yesterday. The only question now: Can she survive the wreckage?  Claire McCaskill's reputation took perhaps its biggest hit in her nearly five years in the U.S. Senate on Mo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Comment of the Day: McCaskill as Tax Imposer

    Today's comment comes in response to an article on how Missouri's Democratic senator, Claire McCaskill, recently acknowledged that she'd failed to pay personal property taxes on her private airplane. In responding to a McCaskill supporter, commenter "Hector Garbanzo" let loose this impressive screed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2011

    ClaireMcCaskill.com Officially Worth $4,000

    How much would you pay for this web domain?​From the Department of Why the Hell Didn't We Think of That?: The Post-Dispatch reports that a Columbia-based web designer named Brennan Hobart noticed that Senator Claire McCaskill's website was called claireonline.com. Hobart suspected that the do ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    McCaskill Disputes NYT Report on Democratic Convention as Ed Martin Weighs In

    Image viaMcCaskill: NYT got it all twisted!​Now that a New York Times piece has suggested that Senator Claire McCaskill torpedoed St. Louis' bid for the 2011 Democratic Convention, she's fighting back.  The gist of the article was that she publicly supported bringing the convention here, but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Did Senator Claire McCaskill Torpedo St. Louis' Bid for the Democratic Convention?

    Image viaU.S. Senator Claire McCaskill​Check out The New York Times this morning on why the Dems chose Charlotte over other contenders for their national convention: St. Louis was widely seen as the next choice to Charlotte...[but] there were broader concerns raised about Missouri....One of the co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    McCaskill Concerned About St. Louis Nabbing 2012 Democratic Convention

    Senator Claire McCaskill hasn't heard that St. Louis will or will not host the 2012 DNC convention. In fact, she hasn't heard a thing and the silence from the White House may not bode well. "I wish I knew. I'm worried that I don't, to tell you the truth," McCaskill told the Post-Dispatch yesterday. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2011

    McCaskill on Giffords Shooting: 'I'm Mad'

    WikiMedia CommonsRep. Gabrielle Giffords​​Sen. Claire McCaskill released a statement through a spokeswoman about fellow female Congress member Rep. Gabriell Giffords, who was shot at a constituent event in her district in Arizona yesterday.Find the statement behind the cut, but we think McCaskil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    McCaskill Champions Arlington Cemetery Legislation

    image via​Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has pushed for higher standards and oversight at Arlington National Cemetery since last year, when it was discovered that thousands of graves at the famous burial ground may be mislabeled or unmarked. This weekend, the Senate passed legislation, sponso ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2010

    Two Politicians Walk Into an Airport...

    image via​No, it's not the start of a lame joke. Or, well, maybe it is. We'll just have to wait almost two years to find out the punch line. Sen. Claire McCaskill tweeted this morning that she ran into Jim Talent, the Republican whose one-time Senate seat she currently occupies. (McCaskill de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2010

    Missourians Are Schizophrenic About Earmarks

    Image via​Our state can't get its story straight.  Yesterday, The New York Times' unpacked the debate over earmarks (are they good or evil?) by focusing on the St. Louis experience. Here's a quote from our mayor, Francis Slay, on Senator Kit Bond's love of federal $$$ and how Bond corralled i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2010

    Lucky You: You're Worth $34.75 in Earmarks This Year

    image via​We all know that our junior senator, Claire McCaskill, is outspoken about the need to eliminate earmarks and pork barrel legislation. Of course, this doesn't mean that all of Missouri's congressional delegation ascribes to this same kosher view of government spending. (No pork, get it?)C ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Claire McCaskill: Will 'Absolutely' Seek Another Term in 2012

    image viaStand by your man.​Missouri's junior senator, Democrat Claire McCaskill, who won her seat in 2006 by beating out Republican incumbent Jim Talent, says that she will "absolutely" run to keep her Senate seat in the 2012 election, reports the St. Louis Beacon. Now that Republicans ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    Ass Clown of the Week: Idiot Ne'er-Do-Wells, Meatheads, Bogus Dick Docs

    ​They're baaack! After a few weeks off for good behavior, local yokels lacking morals -- or common sense -- struck back with a vengeance this week. You know the rules, vote for the person who's actions or words you think makes them this week's biggest Ass Clown.  And the nominees...1. Rich St ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Will McCaskill: Senator's Brother Latest Middle-Aged Man to Lose Dignity in Columbia

    Police HandoutWill McCaskill: Geez this is humiliating. Maybe if I just close my eyes...​One more reason why middle-aged men have no reason partying with college kids.Will McCaskill, the younger brother of Senator Claire McCaskill, was arrested last night on drug charges stemming from a January 5 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Claire McCaskill: Champion to Flight Attendants

    image via​American Airlines announced today that it would rehire 545 furloughed TWA flight attendants, and Sen. Claire McCaskill is pumped. TWA and American Airlines merged in 2001, and 2,500 flight attendants, many of them employees for the former TWA, were laid off with the right to reclaim ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2010

    Video: Sen. Claire McCaskill Talks Shit to Goldman Sachs Execs

    There have been many, many headlines devoted to yesterday's "shitty" congressional hearings but, as is often the case, nobody tops the NY Post. Here's what their editors came up with:Image via​If you have no idea what we're talking about, well, Senator Carl Levin from Michigan and the Show-Me Stat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    Claire McCaskill Makes a Boehner Joke on The Colbert Report

    Image viaJohn Boehner not happy about the tanning salon tax in the health care bill​House minority leader John Boehner made himself the butt of many jokes when he proclaimed that the passage of health care reform was "Armageddon" that would "ruin our country," but Missouri senator Claire McCaskill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Peter Kinder Grandstands on Health Care, Joins Lawsuit to Stop Reform

    Kinder: That's prounounced "KIN-der" not "KIND-er".​Moments after the health care reform bill was signed into law yesterday, Missouri Lt. Governor Peter Kinder announced he would join the attorneys general in 13 other states in signing a lawsuit intended to overturn the legislation. In a statement ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2010

    Obama Visits St. Louis, Wishes it Were 2008 All Over Again

    Claiming a burning need to get out of politics-obsessed Washington, President Obama visited St. Louis yesterday for a nice, relaxing chat about health care. After delivering his speech at St. Charles High School, the president dropped in at the Renaissance Grand Hotel downtown for a benefit for his ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    At $50,000 for Seat to Obama's St. Louis Visit, Maybe There is a Way to Pay for Health Care

    Will there be surf at fancy dinner? Will there be turf?​Barack Obama is headed to town next week for a March 10 fundraiser for Senator Claire McCaskill and ticket prices are all over the map to see the president.According to the AP, less affluent supporters can get a standing-room only ticket to a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2010

    Obama Coming To Town in Support of Claire McCaskill

    McCaskill hopes Obama will lure in the money.​President Barack Obama will swing through St. Louis next month. Obama will be in town March 10 for a fundraiser for Sen. Claire McCaskill, reports Jake Wagman on Political Fix. McCaskill isn't up for re-election 'til 2012, yet she's already stock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2010

    Claire McCaskill Goes to Bat for Boeing C-17

    Photo Via BoeingThe Boeing C-17 is slated to be retired, but around 1,000 jobs in St. Louis are tied to the project.​ The Boeing C-17 is on the chopping block. It is supposed to be retired according to the Department of Defense budget for 2011.But Missouri senator Claire McCaskill is among those w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2009

    Claire "The Joker" McCaskill

    Hours before the U.S. Senate vote on health care late last night, Heath Ledger-esque posters of Senator Claire McCaskill went up on telephone poles and lampposts across the metro region. Blogger GatewayPundit is curating sight'ems. www.gatewaypundit.firstthings.com​Similar caricatures of President ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2009

    Sen. McCaskill Firing Tweets Like Machine Gun, Thanking Missouri Vets on Twitter

    We here at Daily RFT love it that Claire McCaskill is so social-media savvy. At times, though, the Missouri senator can really go overboard. Today is one of those times. McCaskill is tweeting a personal thank you to each and every Missouri veteran suggested by her 34,000 Twitter friends. As anyone w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 3, 2009

    St. Louis Tea Party and MC Hammer: Kindred Spirits

    ​By its own admission, the St. Louis Tea Party has yet to make much impact on the public policy of President Barack Obama and the Democratically controlled Congress. But that's beginning to change, states St. Louis Tea Party organizer Bill Hennessey in a message to his flock. Following his group's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 30, 2009

    Local Blogger Hijacks McCaskill's Healthcare Forum Appears on Fox News to Talk About It

    ​Dana Loesch local blogger (Mamalouges), conservative talk show host, and right-wing Tea Party organizer marshaled a group of Teabaggers to turn a public forum on healthcare reform organized by Senator Claire McCaskill 's office into a protest against healthcare reform. I think the forum was actua ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2009

    Last Week's Most Popular Daily RFT Posts, July 20-26

    G'morning! If you're just not ready to unclench the weekend from your grip, rewind with these highlights from last week on the Daily RFT, the top-ten most-read postsJoker Bites His Wife's Face, Tells Cops He's BatmanThomas Byrd of Granite City, Ass Clown of the Week nominee, was sentenced to 24 year ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2009

    Getting to the Bottom of that Puzzling Claire McCaskill Tweet

    Earlier today Daily RFT blogger Bill Streeter posted a quizzical "tweet" made yesterday on Senator Claire McCaskill's Twitter feed. Curious as to what McCaskill was discussing in this post, I just conducted a grueling two minutes of Internet research to arrive at the bottom of the matter.Not surpris ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    A Waitress-cum-Senator do a Supreme Court Justice Make?

    Wikimedia CommonsA woman's place is not in the kitchen. It's at the front of the house, like on the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court.A former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush has floated the name of -- nay, endorsed -- Missouri's freshman senator for the soon-to-be-open seat on the U.S. Supreme Cour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    Barack's Star Turn Snub

    Wikimedia CommonsA woman's place is not in the kitchen. It's at the front of the house, like on the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court.A former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush has floated the name of -- nay, endorsed -- Missouri's freshman senator for the soon-to-be-open seat on the U.S. Supreme Cour ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2007

    To Pork or Not to Pork?

    Wikimedia CommonsA woman's place is not in the kitchen. It's at the front of the house, like on the bench at the U.S. Supreme Court.A former speechwriter for George H.W. Bush has floated the name of -- nay, endorsed -- Missouri's freshman senator for the soon-to-be-open seat on the U.S. Supreme Cour ... More >>

  • News

    May 3, 2006

    Pay Up!

    Metro wants Claire McCaskill to foot the auditing bill

  • News

    November 28, 2001

    The Wright Stuff

    Mayor Adrian Wright knows what's right for Pine Lawn. If folks don't like it, that's just tough.

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