McCaskill: Good news about recession; emissions are down

(From the Todd Akin campaign)



Today the Akin Campaign highlighted a video of Claire McCaskill speaking to the Georgetown University College Democrats on March 28, 2011 in which McCaskill shows how liberal she really is by putting her liberal agenda ahead of the poor economic situation facing millions of Americans. Claire McCaskill says in the video, "the good news is our emissions are way down because of the recession." Claire McCaskill is so committed to a cap and trade energy tax that she celebrates a reduction in emissions caused by millions of Americans losing their jobs.

"It is never good news when twenty-three million Americas are looking for work," said Rick Tyler, senior advisor to the Akin campaign. "This is the real Claire McCaskill--one who puts the liberal agenda ahead of the jobs and prosperity of millions of Americans. McCaskill's own businesses are getting millions in taxpayer dollars while one in six Missourians is living under the poverty line. Missouri cannot afford another six years with liberal Claire McCaskill making herself rich while celebrating the fact that others are out of work."

TRANSCRIPT
"Well, the good news is our emissions are way down because of the recession. [Laughter] We are...I mean you know really if you want to find a silver lining in the cloud, the number that we were looking for we are well, well above where the emissions would have been assuming for purposes of discussion that cap and trade was passed a few years ago because we have had such a real drop in manufacturing output. Now I didn't mean really good news, I meant that it was... [Laughter] I was being sarcastic again in the context, but emissions are way down because of unfortunately the lack of economic activity that we have had in the last couple of years."