It’s long been my contention that Amy Klobuchar isn’t a moderate. Thanks to her voting to slash Medicare’s home care budget, not to mention voting for slashing $460,000,000,000 from the overall Medicare bill, we now have proof that she’s willing to put a higher priority on partisanship than on good policy.

A-Klo voted for President Obama’s stimulus plan. Now she’s voted for slashing the budget that funds home care for senior citizens. Her vote will hurt real people. A-Klo’s vote will hurt people who want to live out their lives at home instead of a nursing facility or a hospital.

I’m not saying we should stop funding nursing homes or hospitals, especially for end-of-life situations. I’m just suggesting that home care is dramatically cheaper and just as professional as the other options. During my BCC with Sen. Thune, I learned that the difference between being treated at home is 20-30 times less expensive than being treated in a hospital.

QUESTION FOR SEN. KLOBUCHAR: Shouldn’t we want to encourage people to use the home option rather than treating them in a hospital? If not, why shouldn’t we?

When A-Klo voted for the stimulus bill in February, wasn’t that proof that she’s fiscally irresponsible? The stimulus bill failed so badly that they’re now painted into a corner where they have to put together another stimulus bill to do what their first stimulus didn’t accomplish.

Except that the stimulus bill now being put together is almost identical to the first, failed stimulus bill. Yes, this stimulus bill will have a capital gains tax relief. Big deal. It’s only relief for one year.

Despite that, it’s a certainty that Sen. Klobuchar will vote for it. Six months after that bill is pronounced as a failure, what will Sen. Klobuchar say in defense of her votes? That she thought that spending over $1,000,000,000,000 and putting us deeper in debt the fastest in history seemed like a good thing at the time? That she could’ve sworn that paying off the Democrats’ allies seemd like a smart thing to do?

Sen. Klobuchar’s carefully crafted image of being a moderate is nothing more than a carefully choreographed image. The reality is that there isn’t any proof in Sen. Klobuchar’s voting habits that say Sen. Klobuchar is anything but a far left lefty.

Thus far, Sen. Klobuchar has gotten a pass from the media in terms of whether she’s a radical or whether she’s a moderate. It’s time that the Twin Cities media started reporting on the things she’s voted against. If they did that, the moderate facade would quickly disappear.

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