Blunt Assessment: "It Is Hard for Anyone...To Take Serious Blunt’s Claim That He Speaks for the Average Missourian"

New Majority Whip Roy Blunt receives a congratulatory velvet hammer from mentor Tom DeLay in 2002; Speaker Denny Hastert looks on in approval

Randy Turner breaks it down:

As we move into what might be the last throes of the great healthcare battle of the Obama Administration, my Congressman, Roy Blunt, a candidate for U. S. Senate in Missouri, is also making his allegiances clear.

While Democrats and Republicans are getting together Thursday, with only an outside chance of hammering out meaningful heath care and insurance reform, Roy Blunt, the newly-minted Tea Party conservative, the-government-is the-source-of-all-evil Republican, will be playing politics as usual- and playing footsy with insurance lobbyists...

With these special interests bankrolling Roy Blunt, and when most of his family including his campaign manager son, daughter, and wife are lobbyists, it is hard for anyone, whether on the left or the right, to take serious Blunt’s claim that he speaks for the average Missourian.

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