Claire McCaskill: “Barge traffic in my state is very important to the health of our economy.”

This is really, really bad. What they’re saying is, if you criticize the president of the United States, as an elected member of Congress, we will silence you.

He has shown tremendous strength in terms of unifying NATO.

I think that, fundamentally, voters do understand that we have very, very low unemployment. They see it in their families, that everybody has jobs, everybody can get jobs, their jobs are paying slightly better.

This is a guy who is really out of touch. I mean let me count the ways the legitimacy can be questioned.