Politics and Religion

I’m going to start a series of posts called how we got here…
LostSon 43 Reviews 460 reads
posted
1 / 12

What was it about Hillary that you lefties liked soooo much you were willing to cast you vote for her?  

Answer the question and don’t go off on tangents! Simply post WHY you thought she would be a good president. All honest answers will be discussed.

inicky46 61 Reviews 89 reads
posted
2 / 12

I voted for Hillary despite not linking her because the alternative was so unspeakably vile.
And I was wrong. Because Trump turned out to be 100 times worse than I feared.
I thought she'd be a good President because she had loads of experience from being a Governor's wife, a President's wife, a US Senator and Secretary of State. She checked a lot of boxes. And I am NOT one of those who thinks government service is some kind of stain. I do NOT believe the "Deep State" even exists. Unlike you and your lunatic friends like Willy.
In other words, I am sane. Unlike Trump and his flunkies.
I await your brainlessly spewing, fact-free response.

LostSon 43 Reviews 91 reads
posted
3 / 12

Posted By: inicky46

 I thought she'd be a good President because she had loads of experience from being a Governor's wife, a President's wife, a US Senator, and a Secretary of State. She checked a lot of boxes.
 

You're welcome, I fixed your misspellings there, Anyway, that is how you should have answered.

Ok in her case her involvement in Her Husbands administrations at both the state and the National level was MUCH greater than practically any first lady since Elenor Roosevelt in the Second world war. I'll give you that one.  She was Knee deep in the shit. Proaobly more so than she should have been.  

The US Senator Gig I'm doing a much deeper dive than ever before.

We will save the State Department stuff till later.  

Let's take a look at her time in the Senate. The website will show it better.

From govtrack.us/

Ideology–Leadership Chart
Clinton is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the Senate in 2010 positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

CHART
Scatter chart with 4 data series.
The chart has 1 X axis displaying Ideology Score. Range: -0.01 to 1.01.
The chart has 1 Y axis displaying Leadership Score. Range: 0 to 1.25.
End of interactive chart.
The chart is based on the bills Clinton sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 24, 2005 to Dec 22, 2010. See full analysis methodology.

Enacted Legislation
Clinton was the primary sponsor of 16 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:

S. 3625 (110th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 245 North Main Street in New City, New York, as the “Kenneth Peter …
S. 3317 (110th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 101 West Main Street in Waterville, New York, as the “Corporal John P. …
S. 3145 (110th): A bill to designate a portion of United States Route 20A, located in Orchard Park, New York, as the “Timothy J. Russert Highway”.
S. 1148 (110th): Hudson-Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial Commemoration Commission Act of 2007
S. 993 (110th): Pediatric Research Improvement Act
S. 3613 (109th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2951 New York Highway 43 in Averill Park, New York, as the “Major …
S. 3847 (109th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 110 Cooper Street in Babylon, New York, as the “Jacob Samuel Fletcher Post …
View All »

Does 16 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Clinton sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (23%) Economics and Public Finance (15%) Health (14%) Science, Technology, Communications (11%) Families (10%) Social Welfare (10%) Labor and Employment (9%) Education (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills
Clinton recently introduced the following legislation:

S. 211 (111th): Calling for 2-1-1 Act of 2009
S. 182 (111th): Paycheck Fairness Act
S.Res. 727 (110th): A resolution honoring the victims of the bombing of Pan Am flight …
S. 20 (110th): Protecting Patients and Health Care Act
S.Res. 720 (110th): A resolution supporting the goals and ideals of Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
S. 19 (110th): A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow …
S. 3706 (110th): Elimination of the Single Parent Tax Act of 2008
View All » | View Cosponsors »

Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record
Key Votes
Clinton voted Nay
S.J.Res. 5 (111th): A joint resolution relating to the disapproval of obligations under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
Joint Resolution Defeated 42/52 on Jan 15, 2009.
Clinton voted Not Voting
H.R. 6124 (110th): Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
Veto Overridden 80/14 on Jun 18, 2008.
Clinton voted Not Voting
H.R. 2419 (110th): Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
Bill Passed 79/14 on Dec 14, 2007.
The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 (Pub.L. 110–234, H.R. 2419, 122 Stat. 923, enacted May 22, 2008, also known as the 2008 U.S. …
Clinton voted Nay
On the Nomination PN177: Gen. George W. Casey, Jr., in the Army, to be General
Nomination Confirmed 83/14 on Feb 8, 2007.
Missed Votes
From Jan 2001 to Jan 2009, Clinton missed 249 of 2,616 roll call votes, which is 9.5%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2009. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

MISSED VOTES (%)
Line chart with 33 data points.
The chart has 1 X axis displaying categories.
The chart has 1 Y axis displaying Missed Votes (%). Range: 0 to 100.
End of interactive chart.
Show the numbers...

Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

UnitedStates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

inicky46 61 Reviews 86 reads
posted
5 / 12

Did you really think anyone would actually read your immense pile of word vomit?
I didn't.
But it's fun to imagine how much time you wasted researching it, then piling turd upon turd.
Lost = Loser

LostSon 43 Reviews 91 reads
posted
6 / 12

Posted By: inicky46
Re: Ludicrous. That would be you, Lost.
Did you really think anyone would actually read your immense pile of word vomit?  
 I didn't.  
 But it's fun to imagine how much time you wasted researching it, then piling turd upon turd.  
 Lost = Loser
Obviously, you didn't and I post this near the top.  

"Let's take a look at her time in the Senate.  The website will show it better.

From govtrack.us/"

Go take a look at the website and see what the person you were voting for did as a lawmaker.

inicky46 61 Reviews 76 reads
posted
7 / 12

Because you're one of the most ignorant and misinformed people I've come across.
I've followed Hillary for years. I don't give a shit if every vote she took (or didn't take) wasn't perfect. Look at the voting record of ANY long-serving Senator or Congressperson. They will miss some votes. Besides you, who cares?

jaxuough 80 reads
posted
8 / 12

Two things come to mind immediately, whoops a third one just came up! First off, as Secretary of State Hillary actually traveled more miles, and visited more country's then any other diplomat in Americas history. In doing so she fought the good fight for womens, and childrens rights. Additionally she restored Americas reputation to millions if not billions of the worlds populace. Where as President Bush was met by thousands of citizens of the country's he visited, who would routinely turn their backs to Bush and "moon" him as he disembarked from Air Force One , Hillary was greeted by 100s of thousands of admirers who cheered her often throwing flowers. I thought that this woman cared more about people then she did about lining her own pockets, or bringing an administration into power that would be populayed by some of the most nefarious individuals to ever hold office.  

Secondly, there is no doubt that givin Hillarys better understanding of how Government and international relationships actually work, I knew that she wouldn't be so short sighted and totally ignorant as to provide massive tax breaks to the greedy pigs of the top 1%, and then do things like close the CDC's worldwide footprint, or cancel contracts to service critical medical equipment like the 10 thousand ventilators Obama had warehoused for emergency use, like Trump did.  Had Hillary been elected there is no way that the Unite States would of suffered over 1 million Covid related deaths (and counting).
And finally had Hillary been elected, which she should of been due to her receiving millions of more votes then the incompetent used car salesman did, she would of lead our country with integrity, confidence, intelligence, and competence and class. And had the combined lies of Russia, FOX, and the criminal Republican scum somehow made it so that an uneducated and easily manipulated populace were to have voted her out of office by her 2nd term, she would of left office in a dignified and patriotic way. Welcoming the new administration without playing petty games of one upmanship, and never ever lying or cheating, or putting our country's democracy at risk, in an illegal, immoral, and embarrassing attempt to over throw the legitimate results of our unproblematic and uncompromised national elections.

MrMisunderstood 88 reads
posted
9 / 12

You calling yourself “sane” is convincing. It’s actually quite sad how empty your life must be. See you in another 3-4 months.

MrMisunderstood 87 reads
posted
11 / 12
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