“Show Me” That You’re One Of Us, Claire

(re: Missouri is commonly referred to as the “Show Me” state.)

So we have Dem Senator Claire McCaskill shaking in her boots over the prospect of Hillary Clinton winning the Democratic nomination for president here because it will offend the Repugs (as well as her spineless vote to grant retroactive immunity to the telcos).

Next, we have her voting for that idiotic resolution condemning MoveOn.org over the Petraeus ad last year here (and I’m not sure I would have used the “Betray Us” language either, but it was free speech after all, and apparently it was too much to focus on the actual content of the ad as opposed to the headline).

(To be fair, though, she did support a registry that would disclose how much money and/or gifts drugmakers spend on members of state advisory panels who select drugs used in Medicaid programs here, so that’s a good thing.)

Oh, and by the way, Claire, thanks for bailing on at least one attempt to pass the Reid-Feingold amendment to start de-escalation of our forces in Iraq (an earlier attempt here versus the most recent attempt noted in the post below).

And thanks for piling onto John Kerry also here.

Now comes news that McCaskill is actually sponsoring legislation that would remove once and for all any question surrounding the candidacy of John McCain here; see, McCain was born in the Panama Canal zone in 1936 while his father serving in the Navy was stationed there, so you could technically argue that “Senator Honor And Virtue” wasn’t born as a U.S. citizen.

Believe me when I tell you that I have many, many issues with McCain, but that isn’t one of them – I’m prepared to extend the benefit of the doubt on that one particularly because his father was serving our country at the time.

However, I cannot possibly understand why McCaskill would want to help him out. Let one of McCain’s fellow lockstep Repugs save his butt on this matter; I mean, it’s not as if McCaskill is actually going to be rewarded for it or anything.

Besides, her record is spotty enough that she has too many other fences to mend to worry about helping the opposition anyway.