Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) may have just hit upon a new way for Democrats to deal with the Tea Party crowds: Lecture them as if they were unruly schoolchildren:
“Let me just tell you — and I said this yesterday, I’m gonna say it again — if anyone wants to bet you whether or not we’re gonna get a single-payer nationalized health care bill out of Congress, take the bet and take their money, ’cause it is not gonna happen,” she said — only to hear the right-wing crowd booing in disbelief.
“I know you hate to hear good news,” she said, “but we will not do this.”
She later said in exasperation: “I don’t understand this rudeness. What is this? I don’t get it, I honestly don’t get it. Do you all think that you’re persuading people when you shout out like that?”
