US Senate candidate Sarah Steelman claims she is a conservative. Or should I say, she acts and pretends that she is a conservative. The truth is her ties to the left too many times has influenced her decisions as a politician in Jefferson City, something a Tea Partier has exposed in a series of three memos now found on Scribd.
The Sarah Steelman Memo 3
It appears Steelman is sending mixed signals once again when it comes to how she would voted on John Boehner's pathetic compromise with Democrats. It appears Steelman wants to ride Billy Long's coat tails, who did correctly vote against the Boehner compromise that didn't go far enough to cut federal spending and produce any debt reduction, while appeasing her Democratic friends who she has been known to take money from.
Steelman recently tweeted:
Kudos to Billy Long for standing strong on budget deal by voting No. I would have stood with him. Let's keep challenging thestatus quo#MOsen
10:37 AM Apr 15th via Twitter for iPhone
Well Kudos to Sarah Steelman if that's what she truly means. However, like I mentioned before Steelman is one of these career politicians who play both sides. It appears she is playing both sides on this issue.
David Catanese at the Politico writes of Steelman's position:
After a back-and-forth with her spokeswoman, former Missouri state treasurer Sarah Steelman would only say that she was glad military families would continue to receive paychecks and that lawmakers should refuse to accept their salaries until they "enact real spending cuts."
Pressed if that meant she would have voted "no" on the continuing resolution, Steelman produced a statement through a spokeswoman that read, "I am glad that our government will remain open, but the cuts provided for in this deal are wholly insufficient."
That doesn't sound like she would stand with Billy Long at all. That sounds like more of the pandering and playing both sides of the fence that we expect from Steelman, too afraid to commit to a position when asked by a major Internet political news source in fear of upsetting the wrong people in her part and perhaps the other party.
