Report from Claire McCaskill Town Hall Meeting Springfield, MO

Springfield was the last stop on the Claire McCaskill healthcare town hall express. She obviously saved Springfield for last since Greene County is a largely conservative community, and with Missouri State back in session, students filled with extra credit hopes and liberal brainwashing would fill some seats in hopes of drowning out the discontent for the government healthcare take over. With no surprise, it was many young faces who came out wearing Obama t-shirts and sat their federal student loan asses in the seats. There's still hope for these kids once the reality of taxation kicks in.

The questions hinting at discontent far outnumbered the questions showing a hint of support. Which further my belief that Missouri State professors gave extra credit points today. Yes, I know how the game is played. I earned my degree in 2006 from MSU, and earned quite a few extra credit points during the 2006 elections.

I learned quite a bit about Claire McCaskill today, and many things I have heard said or believe about McCaskill were reinforced. She used the Obama technique of answering questions--that is wear you out with a long winded parade that sounds like an answer but never really answers the actual question. In the middle you just nod off and she ends it with a smile.

When asked about a recent Rasmussen poll, McCaskill answered that she looks at a lot of special interest polls that give a variety of the public's opinion. Did you catch what I said? She said special interest. Rasmussen isn't special interest. It's an independent poll. That's the kind of answers McCaskill delivered today.

McCaskill claimed to be a deficit neutral Senator citing that she voted against the omnibus porkulus package while passing over the fact that she voted for the stimulus bill. I guess she is deficit neutral when she needs a lift in the polls.

McCaskill also believes promote the general welfare from the Constitution means new big government babysitting program. When asked about the Constitution, she actually commented that the Constitution says to provide welfare. Senator McCaskill, a government welfare program isn't promoting the general welfare of the people. In that portion of the Constitution, our forefathers knew more government keeps good men from producing good lives. You are to promote the general welfare by getting out of the way, not spending us into further debt through new government programs which will lead to more taxes robbing people of their ability to live a productive life.

The SEIU showed up. I asked them if they planned to beat anyone up today. They weren't amused. There presence was small, but they were still there handing out pre-printed signs.

I sat on the third row with some women I met in line who were active in the local Republican party. They were enthusiastically opposed to Obamacare.

The crowd got rowdy many times, and when Claire McCaskill used her Medicare comparison that she has used throughout the Missouri town halls, a man questioned her confidence by using a used car analogy which generated quite an applause. He said when I buy a used car and it turns out to be a lemon, I do what I can to keep the car running, but I don't go back to purchase a car from the same used car dealer. Much of the crowd gave the man a standing ovation.

My question wasn't asked as they randomly selected questions. Overall, I learned nothing from McCaskill today. She didn't answer any questions with direct answers, and I am not sure there were any soundbites worthy of the Rush Limbaugh show. I really felt like I wasted an hour of my life.

I do know that a bunch of women wearing Planned Parenthood t-shirts promoting a Web site Planned Parenthood has for the healthcare plan were a few rows behind me. If you believe abortion is going to be absent from this, I think you are sadly mistaken. They are working it.

I wanted to ask these college-aged women if they know who Margaret Sanger is. I doubt they realize their t-shirts promote an organization whose purpose once once to rid the world of blacks by controlling births in black communities in America. You see, it's that kind of ignorance that leads these kids into believing they are doing something noble without looking at the truth.

As I left, protesters lined the roads with signs. My opinion, and McCaskill wouldn't commit to an answer, is that she is voting for this thing regardless of what the people of Missouri want. She promised she would look at the bill to ensure that it doesn't remove the rights of the people, but she is obviously blinded to the words in the bill that do just that. If she was truthful, she would have been honest today instead of providing answers that dodged the question.