"Jim Edmondson" wrote in message
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Hello Ken,


Jim
mailto: j.g.edmondson at att dot net

Jim Edmondson wrote:

he's been nowhere to be seen except on the campaign trail
if he's been "on the job", I'll ask again what is it that he has he
accomplished?

Obama was on the floor of the Senate during the FISA vote, Hillary
wasn't.

OK, he showed when the cameras were on. According to the Washingtom Post,
he missed 38.8% of votes during the current Congress, a pretty dismal
record.
In fact, he was third in the Senate (McCain was second missing 55.7% and
Hillary was seventh at 27.1%).
His list of legislative accomplishments in the Illinois Senate is long
and
distinguished and includes ethics reform, tax credits for low-income
workers, welfare reform, child care subsidies and legislation
requiring that all interrogations during a homicide investigation be
videotaped among many others.

I'm underwhelmed

In the US Senate he won passage of the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act
over the objections of many senior pork addicted members of his own
party wich led to this http://usaspending.gov/ a website where
any journalist or citizen can see for themselves where the federal
money goes. It is historic.

OK, he shows us the waste, but what would be "historic" is actually doing
something about it. He garnered quite a record for earmark spending for a
junior senator,
something like $400 miliion in 3 years (less than Hillary, but more than
McCain's $0).

He co-sponsored legislation with Feingold and Schumer to clean up
election laws and with John McCain on a climate change bill to reduce
greenhouse gasses.

Actually the reduction is in man-made CO2 emissions which are a very small
amount of the total "greenhouse gasses" and which have has an
insignificant effect on climate.

As an aside, I notice how now it is "cimate change" as opposed to "global
warming". This way it can encompass any change in the climate which, of
course, is continually changing. Great strategy to confuse the masses and
support the ultimate agenda.

It just keeps on getting funnier and funnier!

Wolfgang
who feels like he should be paying for this stuff.