Earmark Issue Opens the Door For Steelman

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  March 9th at 09:18 AM  | 

After Senator Claire McCaskill’s comments about earmarks (and the glaring hypocrisy of those comments), Congressman Roy Blunt said something that I believe leaves no doubt that former State Treasurer Sarah Steelman will challenge him for the Republican nomination to the Senate seat being vacated by Senator Kit Bond. “I’ve never been nearly as effective at this topic as Sen. Bond, who’s fought hard for our | Read More »

McCaskill’s Hypocrisy

By: Brian Simpson (Diary)  |  March 9th at 09:07 AM  | 

Senator McCaskill has somehow managed to position herself in the eyes of the general public as a fiscally minded politician.  I’d say a healthy part of that comes from her time as the State Auditor here in Missouri.  People tend to think of the Auditor as a position of someone who knows what is and what isn’t good spending.  McCaskill is definitely trading on that | Read More »