Statement from Ashley Williams on Hillary Clinton's "apology.

[Kensan]

108. Absolutely spot on!!

Your point about how legislation rarely gets passed without something distasteful being added to the mix is conveniently ignored when talking about voting records. The most benign provisions/amendments usually amount to "pork projects" used to incentivize a few extra much needed votes (not to mention provide some bragging rights about bringing the $$ back to their state/district).

I find it hard to fathom why several DU poster are so reluctant to understand why certain votes can't be cherry-picked down to specific line items. OK, it's not actually that hard to fathom. If you can't change/mitigate/eliminate a horrible provision through the amendment process or through the joint committee resolution, you are left with either voting to scuttle the entire bill or accept the bitter taste if there are still provisions that are for the greater good. You and several others have pointed to actual contemporaneous evidence showing the thinking behind some of those past votes now being used to criticize a candidate.

It is very rare indeed that a bill comes along where you vote on a single issue. My memory isn't what it used to be, but I do seem to recall a single issue bill of particular importance. They didn't even use the tried and tested Republican trick of naming it something that's really the exact opposite of what it really means. In my best impersonation of Condi Rice.....I think it was called something like, Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq.