2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary knows how to get things done. She sponsored 3 bills during her 8 years in the Senate! Wow!
One established an historic site in New York, another renamed a Post Office, and the third named a portion of a highway in New York after Timothy J. Russert.Gomez163
(2,039 posts)My mama whipped Major Tom's ass a time or two. My mama got things done.
Major Tom, not so much.
ViseGrip
(3,133 posts)BillZBubb
(10,650 posts)If you don't sponsor bills, no one can hold anything against you in the next election!
I'm out of excuses.
Lone_Wolf
(1,603 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)imagine2015
(2,054 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Impedimentus
(898 posts)FEEL THE BERN - 2016
Raine
(30,540 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Neither do I.
senz
(11,945 posts)Thanks, imagine2015.
Zynx
(21,328 posts)Nice try.
bvf
(6,604 posts)Jitter65
(3,089 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)Zynx
(21,328 posts)a Dem president. Hillary only had two years with a Dem majority and W as president.
bvf
(6,604 posts)with Bush that she rolled right over on that Iraq War Vote--for a war everyone with open eyes knew was premised on goddamned lies.
Want more of the same? Clinton will deliver, guaranteed.
Meanwhile:
https://www.congress.gov/member/bernard-sanders/S000033?q=%7B
senz
(11,945 posts)He has been a very busy man in both houses of congress:
Before the people of Vermont elected him to the Senate in 2006, Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi dubbed Sanders the amendment king of the House of Representatives noting:
Since the Republicans took over Congress in 1995, no other lawmaker not Tom DeLay, not Nancy Pelosi has passed more roll-call amendments (amendments that actually went to a vote on the floor) than Bernie Sanders. He accomplishes this on the one hand by being relentlessly active, and on the other by using his status as an Independent to form left-right coalitions.
https://pplswar.wordpress.com/2015/11/11/what-bernie-sanders-got-done-in-washington-a-legislative-inventory/
Further reading for those who actually want to know:
http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-gets-it-done-sanders-record-pushing-through-major-reforms-will-surprise-you
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251605502
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511324268
A constant theme in Bernie's career is that he fights for that which is good.
senz
(11,945 posts)Sky Masterson
(5,240 posts)The Flag Protection Act of 2005 was a proposed United States federal law introduced by Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert Bennett. The law would have outlawed flag burning, and called for a punishment of one year in jail and a fine of $100,000.[1][2]
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, the act was summarized as such:
Amends the federal criminal code to revise provisions regarding desecration of the flag to prohibit: (1) destroying or damaging a U.S. flag with the primary purpose and intent to incite or produce imminent violence or a breach of the peace; or (2) stealing or knowingly converting the use of a U.S. flag either belonging to the United States or on lands reserved for the United States and intentionally destroying or damaging that flag.[3]
Since the law was not passed nor considered by the United States Congress, its constitutionality was not challenged by the Supreme Court; the bill was never assigned to committee.[4] However, the bill's language was designed so as to prohibit the desecration of a flag when the intent was found to be a threat to public safety, the intention being that it would therefore not violate the First Amendment and not be declared unconstitutional.[5]
Both co-sponsors of the bill voted against the most recent Flag Desecration Amendment of 2006.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_Protection_Act_of_2005
I don't know what it is about Jailing people and filling Jails that put a spring in the Clintons step and gives them that warm fuzzy feeling.
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)she says she knows how to get things done. That is true, but she didn't say the things she got done were for the country.
While she was there she got a lot of things done for her foundation and to lay a groundwork for raising serious personal cash-ola.
You just ASSUMED she meant "get things done" for you. Ha! You commoners are so easily fooled, by lawyer-ese.