The big lie: "Hillary is an economic conservative."

[DanTex]

42. The bankruptcy bill, good point.

The first time someone has actually brought up a relevant policy position in this entire thread.

There are actually three bankruptcy bills. The 99 one that she helped kill. The 2001 one that she voted for (along with all but 14 D's in the Senate at the time), and the 2005 one she was against but missed the vote because of Bill's surgery.

Yeah, the 2001 vote was not her best moment. Probably had partly to do with being a freshman senator and not wanting to alienate one of the main industries in her home state with one of her first votes. You know, like Bernie Sanders and the F-35 kind of thing.

But, yes, you are right, that was not a progressive vote. Obviously, it's just one small misstep in an otherwise extremely strong progressive economic record, and she did later come around to oppose a similar bill in 2005, but she was on the wrong side of that one.