Senator McCaskill on Health Care

The greatest deliberative body in the world(or at least the body that once had that appelation) has as one of its members Claire McKaskill from Missouri. McKaskill attempts to argue on this radio snippet on several sides of the bill - she is for a conference committee that is open but everyone knows what is in the bill so that is unnecessary (are you following me?). It is clear that regardless of what people in her state think about the bill (the most recent polling I could find showed that almost three quarters of the voters would like to slow the process down a bit) the Senator wants to get this into law as quickly as possible. Nationally only 42% of the voters want the current bill (as they can understand it) but McKaskill seems to want to cling to the issue regardless.

McKaskill attempts to make the argument that (as the President has tried to do also) a lot of the opposition has been stirred up because of mis-information. Yet when you listen to her trying to defend her position she seems to stumble in trying to explain her position - her logic seems to be try anything that will stick. No wonder that she has the support of 29% of Missourians in current polling. Missouri is the "show me" state - my guess is that when McKaskill comes up for re-election she will find out that in her case "show me" is followed by "the exit."