Clinton Senate Terms Marked by Few Legislative Achievements, Few Gaffes
WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton arrived in the Senate before she had even surrendered the title of first lady.
An anything-but-typical freshman, she surprised skeptics with how well she fit in to a chamber where reputations are usually built over decades.
She didn’t big-foot colleagues. A junior senator in the minority party, she put her head down and went to work.
She sought out the longest-serving senator in history, West Virginia’s Robert Byrd, to receive a tutorial on the art of legislating, even though he had been an outspoken critic of her husband during the impeachment debate.
She waited her turn to speak, and when she did talk, it was clear she had done her homework.
By most accounts she was seen as a serious legislator who tended to her state’s interests. She was re-elected in 2006 in a cakewalk.
But there is no blockbuster legislation with her name on it. No soaring oratory still rings in the ears.
Some campaign promises went unfulfilled, notably her promise to create 200,000 jobs in upstate New York.
Her vote to authorize the Iraq war and other moves toward the center caused liberals to grouse that she had betrayed her roots.
And the skills that make for a successful junior senator are not necessarily those that shout presidential leadership.
Citing the “cumbersome” rules under which the Senate operates, Clinton told an Associated Press reporter last year, “I’m somebody who just gets up every day and tries to push that decision a little bit further every day.”
For all her hard work, she brought baggage to the Senate that could not be shed.
Clinton points to her role in putting together $20 billion in aid for New York after the Sept. 11 attacks as one of her greatest Senate achievements.
Why would anyone expect Hillary’s presidency to be anymore productive than her Senate run?
Clinton only went after the New York Senator position, so she could run for President. She has doing this from DAY ONE.
“her roots” ???? New York???? Didn’t she and Bill abandon Arkansas a while back because NY played better into their plans? We don’t need ANY more Clinton yaers in the White House. Scary thought having them represent our Nation again …. at the rate it the campaign is going, doesn’t look like it will happer, thankfully! Her (and his) exaggerated claims of accomplishmnets continue to be exposed and taken apart! We’ll get to enjoy John McCain in the Presidency for the next four years thanks in part to the continued in-fighting and the Clinton’s assumptions that they have a right to be back in the White House. Give up Hillary!!
Reading these blogs leads one to believe that most of you were still kids during the clinton administration. Go research the history of their whitehouse tour, and don’t say they fixed the economy. The economy didn’t recover until the republicans took over the senate and congress. Since the dems took back the senate and congress look where the economy went.
Why hasen’t the news people picked up Hillary’s combat lie; landing under fire, having to run bent over to the terminal to excape the fire. Never happened.
Hillary Clinton has the necessary experience and the requisite resume to be President of the United States. She has lately come around as someone who is desperate, and will say or do anything to win and i believe voters are beginning to take note of that. Some antics being employed by her campaign and her surrogates are outright duty and i want to bet the Americans people can see through that.
Snoopy in Indiana - I agree with you - this is the 4th time I have tried to put comments
online that are against Clinton and FOX NEWS’ bias coverage - but they never get
put on line - FAIR and BALANCED is a myth - just like the myth that Clinton still has a
chance of winning.
If you haven’t figured out yet - “It’s all about me(Clinton)” - she and her husband don’t care
if they take the whole party down with them - they should be ashamed of tearing this party
apart - take your marbles and go home already.