…by flipping them off, locking them out, and calling the police on them.
As Gateway Pundit reports, this past Friday a Tea Party protest outside Democrat Senator McCaskill’s offices in St. Louis was received by her staff with obscene gestures and a refusal to hear their concerns. The protesters were voicing their objections to socialized, government-controlled healthcare and the inevitable (and already-proposed) tax increases and related financial irresponsibility being proposed by the Democrats. Apparently the staffers felt “they were being threatened”.
Real threatening-looking crowd, eh?
Um, no. Police? Senator McCaskill, is that how you respond to your constituents’ concerns? By insulting them and chasing them away?
Last night Senator McCaskill twittered: “I moved my office from fed bldg to street front when I got elected to make it more user friendly, approachable.“.
More approachable. Right.
(Update: McCaskill attempts to explain her staff’s behavior. Not a real apology, you’ll notice: “sorry you were offended” rather than “sorry my staff members were such idiots”. Moe would have banned her for that pathetic attempt.)
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gatorbait Sunday, July 19th at 10:09AM EST (link)So I wouldn’t know when this woman is up for reelection but she should definantly be voted out when that time comes. It seems to me that that kind of defiance and outright disirespect of the constituents seems to be a defining trait of the Democrats. The excuse that the protesters were a threatening bunch is pathetic. They look like the Bingo group from your local church.
Funny you should mention that.
Brian Simpson (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 10:35AM EST (link)She’s up in 2012.
I should think that there is a certain someone who is gearing up for that race (despite rumors she is going to jump into the 2010 race against Congressman Blunt).
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IJB Sunday, July 19th at 12:27PM EST (link)No thanks – I’d rather have a conservative Republican in that seat.
She's not up until 2012
pawpawrick Sunday, July 19th at 10:29AM EST (link)I think.when are people going to realize that their concerns mean less than nothing to politicains?The only time they pay attention is when they need to look like they care during an election cycle.They count on the sheeple to have short attention spans.Failing that,they have ACORN to fall back on along with courts to steal close elections for them.
Voters have had short attention spans..
gatorbait Sunday, July 19th at 1:10PM EST (link)but they are starting to wake up. Just make sure, when election time come around, to remind people of such incidents and keep it in the spot light. If she says she’ll “stand up for her constituents and stand up to Washington” someone should remind her of when some of the citizens tried to voice their concerns to her and she responded with the police.
Those scary right wing extremists....
PGDeFreese (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 11:11AM EST (link)it’s no wonder Senator McCaskill’s staff was frightened! I mean this obviously menacing group with their combat fanny packs and sliver hair unit designation is absolutely unnerving. I can just imagine the scared bunny stares of her staff as the heinous banner of these insurgents was unfurled, then as what little courage existed quickly palled- the frantic emergency dialing and the cry for help, “911, this is an emergency- they are waving American flags in front of our office!”
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Flagstaff (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 4:36PM EST (link)Claire’s staff had to be scared to prove a point–there weren’t any black faces in that crowd, so of course they were afraid. Equal opportunity fear–if Obama’s Granny could cross the street to avoid a frightening black man, Claire’s staff could call the cops on some non-threatening white crackers.
Maybe they’ll all meet with Obie’s Granny under the bus.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
Democrat seem to do this kind of thing regularly
bobojake (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 12:49PM EST (link)and then cry like a baby when anybody opposes them by going with their PC elcrapo. Guess what democrats we don’t believe in your PC elcrapo and its ok when we kick back against your trainwrecks whether you, obama, leafy or McCaskill cry and whine. We can handle it. Keep exposing these trainwreck thugs.
Rememeber the government and Unions mange the trains. Do we people like obama and McCaskill in caharge???????
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1stRichard (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 4:34PM EST (link)As you can see there were not much of us and we were peaceful….
http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/local/wwlp_local_protestors_rally_against_govt_spending_20090717
Well we had some yahoo try to give us a hard time that upset some, see comments here…
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2295499/posts?page=2
But we stood our ground, thunderstorms and all and got the far left liberals here all riled.
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As was discussed in another thread,
Flagstaff (Diary) Sunday, July 19th at 4:49PM EST (link)Responsibility can’t be delegated. The buck stops with the idiot who appointed the idiot who hired the idiots. Maybe even with the idiot who didn’t protest a rigged election to bring the current idiot into office. Or with the idiots who voted for her.
OMG, they were actually waving flags at the staff. Threatening them with an outward show of patriotism.
“The press is so powerful in its image-making role that it can make a criminal look like he’s the victim and make the victim look like he’s the criminal. If you aren’t careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.”– Malcolm X, Audubon Ballroom, December 13, 1964
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cat007 Monday, July 20th at 12:23AM EST (link)But that wasn’t the point, Was it? You wanted a confrontation. They gave you one. It wasn’t smart on their part, but it wasn’t noble on yours either
How annoying
Robert A. Hahn (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 8:16AM EST (link)Truly there is nothing more confrontational than the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. Especially when the people peaceably assemble outside the office of their representative.
Perhaps if they had done so at her home, and insulted her children, it would have been more appropriate.
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What is "not noble" about protesting the ones
janis (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 9:02AM EST (link)who are pushing legislation and huge tax burdens on us and the next three generations or so to come after us? They were protesting to make a point, not to just drop in and say “Howdy.”
From the article, I don’t think McCaskill’s staff gave the protesters a confrontation. Given the craven behavior or her staff, it seems unlikely that they could have given a wedgie, much less something as robust as a face to face yelling match.
What do YOU consider a "noble" protest?
Brian Hibbert (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 9:15AM EST (link)Are these people more noble?
Perhaps these?
The people pictured outside McCaskill’s office are demondtrating in about the most noble way I can imagine for a demonstration. Or are you just against free speech in general?
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tanstaafl1019 Tuesday, July 21st at 4:48PM EST (link)Dissent isn’t patriotic anymore. Now–that is, with the left in full control–it’s treasonous.
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McCaskill does have one talent for sure
bk (Diary) Monday, July 20th at 7:11AM EST (link)She has an ability to tell the most obvious huge whopper of a lie in the straightest possible face. If you’ve ever seen her on a Sunday morning talk show you know what I mean.