#om

I don't know how anyone can keep a straight face and say they are for deficit reduction while they insist on a permanent tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, completely unpaid for. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#completely #cut #deficit #deficit reduction #face

I voted against my party with some frequency, because of my independence. I've just got to remind Missourians that I am independent and that I try to call them like I see them, and sometimes my party is wrong on some things. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#am #because #call #frequency #got

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#country #decided #dozen #even #i

I'm a moderate. I hang out in the middle. I vote against my party with some regularity and try to compromise. It doesn't appear right now that the Republican Party is welcoming moderates any more. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#any #appear #compromise #hang #i

I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you? ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#bunch #carolina #convince #day #election

If you look through history, all of the great work we've done in Congress has been around a table of compromise, when it comes to the most difficult problems. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#been #comes #compromise #congress #difficult

Only in Washington would the Republican operatives get the entire press corps ginned up over the notion that I'm going to be home campaigning instead of going to a bunch of worthless parties at a convention that's only being held to do something we all know is going to happen anyway. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#being #bunch #campaigning #convention #corps

There's nothing that irritates Americans more than the fact that some members of Congress think they are entitled to their own set of rules. And it's true - too many people in Washington live in an alternate reality. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#congress #entitled #fact #irritates #live

When the Tea Party comes to town, compromise goes out the door. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#compromise #door #goes #out #party

When you work in the United States Senate, and you are around people of all different ideas and beliefs, you realize that what our Founding Fathers did that was so genius, is that they made the Senate the place where compromises are supposed to happen because of the makeup of the Senate. ↗

— Claire McCaskill

#because #beliefs #compromises #did #different