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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) made that statement about the Missouri liberal as she voted the party line, which is anything Trump wants, vote against. The two states border each other.
But worse than her vote was the reason she gave--it was classified and she couldn't talk about it.
On a positive note, 54 senators, including six Democrats, supported Haspel's appointment and she was, indeed, confirmed.
Cotton said McCaskill values "obstructionist politics" over "keeping this country safe."
"McCaskill proved once again that she is so liberal, and so reflexively opposed to the president that she cannot represent Missourians in the Senate," Cotton said during a conference call organized by McCaskill's opponent in the upcoming Senate race, Republican Josh Hawley. "She put partisan politics over national security."
McCaskill used a clever ploy saying that she was influenced by Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona who voted against Haspel's confirmation.
McCain is suffering from terminal brain cancer and is a sympathetic figure to anyone with a heart. During the Vietnam War, he was captured and tortured. He is a strong advocate who opposes waterboarding, which he considers torture, and although Haspel was a CIA employee under John Brennan, he blames her for the agency's perfectly legal use of waterboarding at that time, and thus, voted against her confirmation.
But like a reporter who makes wild accusations against President Trump and only cites anonymous sources, McCaskill has done a similar thing with her so-called reason for voting against Haspel--it's classified ['if I tell you, I'll have to kill you'].
"I cross-examined her on the classified material. And I was very uncomfortable with her answers," 'No Lips' told the Associated Press. "I wish I could explain to all my constituents the details of all that, but the law will not allow me to do so."
Just like the law doesn't allow illegal immigrants protection from the law, but try telling that to a liberal.
"I can tell you this," McCaskill said in a conspiratorial whisper, "if everyone in Missouri read and listened to her answers to the questions I asked, I believe that a vast majority of Missourians would have voted the same way I did."
Yeah, sure. Brennan gets confirmed and has Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded, which helps avoid further deaths, and somehow Haspel is culpable because Donald Trump nominated her.
Let's hope that McCaskill loses her Senate seat in the midterms; she deserves it.
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