Confession of A Fox News Flunky: Hillary Clinton Was A Great, Progressive Senator

[Skidmore]

A really good read about the quality of Hillary's legislative record in the Senate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/confession-of-a-fox-news-flunky-hillary-clinton-was_us_5797af58e4b0e339c23fae51

Last Saturday night, I appeared on the Justice with Jeanine Pirro show on Fox. It was maybe my 30th appearance representing liberals, and it was my worst. I was terrible. Judge Pirro asked me a question that I didn’t know was coming:

What specifically did Hillary Clinton actually accomplish in the Senate for women?

I had prepared for a dozen topics, but not this one. In this situation, you’re supposed to pivot and shimmy, but I didn’t. I stammered. I blinked. If you’ve ever fallen apart on live, national TV, you know it does two things: keeps you awake and validates the trolls. More importantly, my terrible four minutes bolstered the opinion held by Pirro’s viewers that Hillary Clinton has achieved nothing.

The argument lobbed at me on Saturday night was simple: Hillary Clinton’s name appears on just three laws, each of which are akin to renaming a post office after a famous person; therefore, she accomplished nothing as a senator.

...Unfortunately, even afterwards, I couldn’t come up with that perfect answer that you always get when the argument is over. So, I ...more

[DAMANgoldberg]

1. I didn't know some of these things.

I do remember how Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) tried to go about the business of governance as a self-described Work Horse, as opposed to a Show Horse, somewhat in the MN tradition of Paul Wellstone.

Some of the same accomplishments can also be applied to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Amy Klobuchar(D-MN), and Cong. Alan Grayson (D-FL).