Can you name one accomplishment of Hillary Clinton in the Senate?

[norml]

Those on The View let Hannity slide on too much. They didn't call him on his doubling of the commonly used Iraqi mass grave number. They hadn't done enough research to be able to come up with one accomplishment of Hillary Clinton in the Senate. Don't those on The View even know how to do a web search? Rove, and Hannity's writers know that few people keep track of the accomplishments of any Senator. "Can you name one accomplishment of Hillary Clinton in the Senate?" is one of his standard rhetorical questions when it comes to talking about her. He used the same rhetorical question to great effect against John Kerry in the 2004 Election. The right wing media has always said "Hillary's running for President" in order to portray her as power mad, and to take away from her accomplishments. I don't think she will be our Presidential Nominee in 2008. I do think they are going to build their Election 2006 propaganda around the Hillary vs. Rudy Senate Race, in order to make it a National referendum on her. Those who debate politics will need to be able to answer this question "Can you name one accomplishment of Hillary Clinton in the Senate?" You might find some clues here...
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hillary+clinton+accomplishments&btnG=Google+Search

[johncoby2]

1. Can you name one accomplishment by Bush in the white house?

[norml]

2. Sorry, changing the subject isn't an answer, and just makes you look like

a Weasel.

[Imagevision]

35. Normi it's really quite simple - Google Hillary Clinton accomplishments

Accomplishments of
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
in the 107th Congress
http://clinton.senate.gov/accomplishments_107th.html

[wisteria]

3. I can't,

But, that doesn't mean I want another non accomplished name only as my president.

[norml]

8. Another pathetic answer!

Come on people! Go to the link! Find a short simple answer there. Bring it back, and paste it here. It's not a trick question. If you go to the link, you'll find Sen. Clinton has many accomplishments, that have already been arranged in convenient lists.

[Imagevision]

36. Normi, sounds like you have too mush time on your hands goto>

Accomplishments of
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
in the 107th Congress
http://clinton.senate.gov/accomplishments_107th.html

[johncoby2]

21. Can you name one accomplishment of John Cornyn?

Hell, if anyone outside of New York could answer this question about Hillary, I would be surprised.

Shoot I am from Texas and all I can think of Cornyn about is his anti flag burning amendement to the constitution.

Your question is a bullshit question.

[norml]

4. They would say "He's cut taxes, and prevented another 9/11"

See, you just gave them their setup, to which they have a short simple answer ready. This is a training exercise. Now I've given you a link. Go look up a short simple proper answer. I'm not going to do it for you.

[snowbear]

5. Hillary's Senate Accomplishments:

http://clinton.senate.gov/accomplishments_107th.html

But wait!! This list is only for ONE year!!! :o :o :o :o :o

September 11th
Homeland Security
Economic Security and Development
Education, Children, and Families
Agriculture
Environment
Health Care
Grants
New York Communities
Veterans
Foreign Policy
Crime
Appropriations

[norml]

14. Thank you larissa! You get an A+.

Those are the sort of answers I'm looking for, ones that would knock Sean Hannity, and the other Rushbozos back on their fat asses.

[Hippo_Tron]

16. This is the kind of thing our people need to be able to recite offhand

We need to study pundits like Hannity so we can predict what they will ask. Then when we send Democrats on FAUX, they will be totally prepared to put asshole like Hannity in their place.

[LiberalFighter]

44. Those Democrats that are on those shows need a strong resource...

such as a PDA loaded with the information and easily retrieved.

[Guaranteed]

6. Let's cut her loose, then.

The new breed of Democrat is coming along quite well. We don't need the triangulators anymore.

When they try to make an issue of her, tell them you agree. She's totally unsatisfactory. Then dig in on Bush.

[norml]

13. No! No! No! That's totally unsatisfactory!

We don't throw our "moderates" to the Wolves. We don't want to lose Senate seats. We want her to win re-election to her Senate seat. We want Rudy, and their planned 2006 pimping of 9/11, and their continued demonization of Hillary to go down to defeat.

[Pepperbelly]

31. Did you bother to read what she did for her state?

The list is formidible. She has done many good things for New York. Substantive things rather than the crap most of the pols brag about.

[Rowdyboy]

7. First term senators in the minority party rarely have major legislative

accomplishments. As a junior member of the minority party, she's built a base of credibility and knowledge on foreign affairs, she's respected by her states voters for constituent services, and she's worked behind the scenes to develop a reputation for toughness.

Everyone predicted in 2000 that she would be a primadonna and a camera-chaser. Instead she has established her self as a reliable, solid, 1st term minority party senator.

You expected Lott and Frist to be backing a lot of her Democratic bills in the senate?

I'm not particularly a Hillary booster but this trashing of her does no one any good. Sometimes this place resembles FR in its gratuitous bashing of Democrats.

[norml]

9. Who's bashing? This is a learning, and debate training exercise.

Did you read my original post in full, or just glance at the question? Did you go to the link I provided? You do make some good points in your answer though, so I'll give you some credit for that.

[snowbear]

10. I read the link you added...

And that's why I was surprised so many said she didn't do much :o

What the.....

She was an extremely busy, extremely hard-working, and extremely effective senator from day one!

She may not be my top pick for 2008, but if she won the nomination, I'd be supporting her to the bitter end.

But as a U.S. Senator, New York residents should be PROUD of her amazing list of accomplishments! :thumbsup:

[Rowdyboy]

11. Sorry, its just been "Bash Hillary" day here on DU.....

Like I said, I'm not a particular fan, but I'm SICK of people using any excuse to run her down. If I misunderstood your post, then I apologise for that one comment but I stand by the rest of my post. She has done an exemplary job for the position she is in and I really wish people would turn their hatred toward the real enemey-the Republican party.

[norml]

30. No, I think she's great!

And I'm going to keep kicking this thread until people have learned more about her accomplishments in the Senate. I very much want Her to destroy Rudy in 2006, and for the Repubs Central strategy for that Election year to fall flat.

[gratuitous]

12. I never said a word!

"Gratuitous" bashing indeed.

But Rowdyboy made my point: A first term Senator in the minority party is not exactly a power base from which to rule the world. Hannity bringing up the question should be met with a similar question: Besides executing a remarkable number of citizens of Texas, what qualifications did George W. Bush bring to the table during his 2000 run for the presidency?

And if Hillary Clinton is merely trading on her name, what do you suppose George W. Bush would be doing if his last name wasn't what it is? Playing the George Lindsey role in a traveling revue based on the Andy Griffith Show?

Hannity's a hack and his lame-ass, partisan baiting doesn't merit a response.

[election_2004]

18. which is why.....

If Hillary is serving the people of New York so well with constituent services (which it sounds as though she is), then she needs to stay there. :)

[LittleClarkie]

15. Here's another resource

http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=WNY99268

I'm sure New Yorkers would be better at this, but I remember she helped a soldier get out from under some ridiculous debt the military decided he owed for being wounded and all. Way to support the troops, you asshats.

From my link, she appears to be on an impressive number of committees.

She's co-sponsoring the election reform bill, but so far it's not gone anywhere.

She mc'ed a Soc. Sec. forum not to long ago.

I also read an article that said that certain Repub Senators had wanted desperately to hate her, but that she's been to personable and hardworking to hate.

That's about all I know about. I don't pay much attention to her really. And I doubt I will do much research on her unless she does become our nominee.

[Spectral]

17. "The View" interviewed Hannity and knew nothing about Hillary?

Then they should stick to summer fashions and Brad Pitt. (And Payless Shoes for Star Jones.)

[election_2004]

19. Well, she hasn't accomplished much that makes her presidential....

The truth is, Hillary HASN'T accomplished anything significant enough that makes her "more qualified" or "more experienced" than most of the other Democrats who could run for president.

The mantra of "she's the most qualified" and "she has the most experience" is simply rhetoric from Hillary's supporters, who want any other Democrat to be dissuaded from potentially mounting a formidable challenge to Hillary in the Democratic primaries.

Notice that none of the women on The View could give Hannity any VALID reason as to why Hillary would be the best presidential candidate whom the Democrats could nominate.

Of course, being the right-wing nut that he is, Hannity has a stake in attempting to ensure that Hillary receives the Democratic presidential nomination.

[Jacobin]

20. Yes. She visited IraqNam and declared that

The insurgents were losing.

What a perceptive potential commander in chief.

[Donna Zen]

22. Well she voted for the war

and supports permanent bases. I'm sure she and obviously all of her supporter here consider that quite an accomplishment.

It has been said many times that I just don't get the politics of Washington.

If by that it means that those of us who thought giving bush a blank check for war was a very bad idea, then I guess we don't "get it." Politics as usual will garner more politics as usual. So vote for the Hillary-Dems., but don't be surprised when they vote against the people.

[Imagevision]

38. They all voted for the war on Bush's accepted intel

[MellowOne]

23. No, but I can't think of things she hasn't done

She hasn't spoken out effectively against voter fraud, 9/11, Iraq war, Gannon, paid government journalists, Galloway, the memo, etc.

The Democrats need a strong voice this time around. Someone like Boxer or Conyvers who aren't "afraid" to show some strength.

I'm just a young girl who became a Democrat because of Kerry's articulate performance in the presidential debates. In my heart, I knew he really won and suspected election fraud. I found DU, and at first, was very encouraged that Democrats would "do something" about the election. Then I watched patiently as one scandal after another on the Bush Administration faded away to nothing and forgotten.

Celebrilities speak out more on issues than the Democrats. On The View yesterday, Rosie O'Donnell said more in five minutes than I've heard Democrats other than Barbara Boxer or Conyers say in the last six months.

So I've come to the conclusion that Democrats are really just Republicans behind a smoke screen. And after all my enthusiasm and campaigning for Kerry, I'm totally disappointed in him.

[MellowOne]

25. I also want to add

How can WE the American public take these issues serious if YOU the Democrats don't put them before the American public and make them serious?

I'm feeling very discouraged today after months of hoping, signing every petition and email congress and media.

[Toots]

24. She was the very first official at ground zero

She was there before Guliano or Schumar or Pataki. Her husband Bill (Big Dog) was in Australia and planes were grounded and yet he still arrived before Bush* She stayed after Congress and the Administration to get some aid for the aftermath.

[suegeo]

26. First First Lady to be elected to the senate.

(I think)

Isn't that an accomplishment itself.

[SemperEadem]

27. ABC hires nothing but know-nothings straight out of school

to work for them in most of their divisions. The less they know, the easier they are to control. They are so young, they barely know how to wipe their asses after using the bathroom. For one of them to do research on Hannity's lies and prepare the list for 'the girls' is not something they would do--mainly because the show is not interested in doing that kind of journalism. One would think that Meredith or Star would have some kind of impetus from their professions to look harder and stick uncomfortable questions to Hannity, but the show doesn't require them to do this. As long as they keep it light and keep the audience laughing, then they're doing their jobs.

The four heads on the show sweep in at the last moment, look briefly at their scripts, spend 3 hours in makeup and wardrobe before setting their cellulite asses on the set to fake their way through being effective journalists.

If you're looking for hard-hitting investigative journalism on a show that caters to fashion, make-up, star-oogling and a really awful comedienne no one heard of until the show aired, you deserve to be disappointed. The View ain't the show you need to be watching for a Hannity 'smack-down by the facts'.

[norml]

32. CNN, National Review both claim there are "two" Hillary Clintons

CNN, National Review both claim there are "two" Hillary Clintons

An ostensibly straight news report on CNN about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and a column on the undeniably partisan National Review Online (NRO) had this in common: Both used the "two Hillarys" conceit to assert that Clinton is juggling conflicting political personas in order both to rally progressive Democrats and extend her appeal to moderates in advance of a possible 2008 presidential run.

Using a variation on a recent canard propagated in the media that Clinton has undertaken a shift to the center, CNN national correspondent Bruce Morton; Roll Call contributing writer Stuart Rothenberg, who appeared in Morton's CNN report; and NRO columnist Eric Pfeiffer all described what they saw as two Hillarys in conflict with each other.

National Review and its stable of conservative commentators, including David Frum, Kate O'Beirne, and Byron York, are frequent sources of conservative misinformation. CNN calls itself "The World's News Leader" and touts a self-described "reputation for more than 20 years for objective, independent reporting," according to Tony Maddox, CNN International senior vice president for Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

From the June 7 report on CNN's Inside Politics:

MORTON: Two Hillarys? Well, yes.

<...>

ROTHENBERG: I think Senator Clinton understands that you have to be one kind of person to win a Democratic presidential nomination and a little different kind of person to win a general election, and she's trying to be two different people at the same time.

<...>





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http://mediamatters.org/items/200506090005

[Imagevision]

37. 2 Hillary's?? Bush warned us of stockpiles of WMD's -Priorities People

[norml]

28. Accomplishments of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 107th Congress

Accomplishments of
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
in the 107th Congress


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the 107th Congress, Senator Clinton worked with her colleagues in the Congress and with state and local officials to get things done for New York. After two years in the Senate, Senator Clinton graduates from the freshman class having worked in a bipartisan way to get legislation passed, traveled to every corner of the state, secured millions in appropriations, and built a strong and effective constituent service operation.

Whether it was making the extension of Unemployment Insurance a national priority; supporting the 2002 Farm Bill that helped New York's $3.4 billion agriculture industry; hosting the first Broadband Conference in Canandaigua to improve broadband access in Upstate; bringing the Dublin Chamber of Commerce to Buffalo's Niagara Medical Campus; introducing legislation to rebuild our schools, championing a block grant to provide direct funding for our first responders; or working to reinstate the "Pediatric Rule" so that all medicines and vaccines are safe for children, Senator Clinton fought for measures in the 107th Congress that would improve the lives of New Yorkers. And in the 108th Congress, national security, homeland security, and economic security will remain at the top of Senator Clinton's legislative agenda.

There was no greater challenge in the 107th Congress than helping New York recover from the terrorist attacks. Senator Clinton worked with the New York delegation to secure funding for clean up and recovery, health tracking for first responders and volunteers who worked at Ground Zero, and grants for small businesses. While a great deal has been accomplished, the rebuilding continues and securing additional resources will continue to be a cornerstone of Senator Clinton's agenda in the 108th Congress.

Please choose from the list of issue areas below to learn more in detail about Senator Clinton's accomplishments in the 107th Congress.


September 11th
Homeland Security
Economic Security and Development
Education, Children, and Families
Agriculture
Environment
Health Care
Grants
New York Communities
Veterans
Foreign Policy
Crime
Appropriations




http://clinton.senate.gov/accomplishments_107th.html

[bunkerbuster1]

34. Good stuff in there. (Oh, and eat me, Sean!)

pick one, pick some, here are my favorites:


Introduced legislation with Senator DeWine (R-OH) to protect against future vaccine shortages by providing a stockpile of routine childhood vaccines and requires manufacturers to give a years notice if they plan to stop making the vaccine.

Introduced legislation with Senator Hutchinson (R-TX) and worked with the American Gold Star Wives so that widows of our nation's veterans can remarry and still retain their benefits.

Introduced legislation to create a national health tracking system for chronic diseases and environmental health hazards. The bill calls for placing an environmental health officer in every state's public health department, creating a chronic disease rapid response force, fully funding chronic disease prevention and research, and coordinating pollution and disease data.

Hosted a Senate field hearing on air quality impacts of the WTC attacks, and pushed the EPA to test and clean indoor air in Lower Manhattan.

[Catherine Vincent]

29. F*** Sean Hannity.

He should be asking that of his beloved leader if he could get his lips off Bush's ass long enough.

[leftofthedial]

33. keeping her name in the news

[Democrat 4 Ever]

40. Were you elected to post today's knock Hillary post?

Seems like DU can't go for one single day without knocking Hillary.

She is not the presidential nominee for 2008, there are 100,000 other things we really need to worry about and yet, just like a sun always rises somebody has to bring up how terrible, awful, unaccomplished Hillary is today. There are some Dems as afraid of Hillary as there are repugs. If she is so lame quit worrying about her.

[leftofthedial]

41. I like her

I just can't think of a significant accomplishment.

yet she stays in the news. It's a talent.

sorry if I crapped in your wheaties.

[CWebster]

39. Offending Canada?

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1042020636222_53?s_name=&no_ads=

[Obviousman]

42. Triangulation?

[norml]

43. Obviously

kick