McCaskill Is Fired Up, Goes on the Offensive Versus Akin
A pumped up Claire McCaskill wasted no time going on the offensive this morning against her newly crowned challenger, Republican Todd Akin.
Speaking at a sheet metal shop in the East Bottoms, McCaskill said Akin, who won a grueling, three-way GOP primary Tuesday night, was “out of the mainstream of Missouri.
“We’re going to prove to Missourians that Todd Akin is out of touch with their problems, out of touch with the pain they feel,” she told reporters.
She cited four main areas to illustrate her point: Medicare, Social Security, student loans and the minimum wage.
Akin, who said Tuesday night that he wants to work to restore Medicare cuts coming as a result of the new federal health care law, isn’t sure the program is constitutional.
“He wants to make seniors arm-wrestle with their insurance companies for their health care,” McCaskill said.
He would privatize Social Security and wants to get the federal government out of the business of providing college loans, which McCaskill said would make it next to impossible for many poor students to attend.
“It shuts down opportunity for most Missouri families,” she said.