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HILLARY'S RECORD – AT 9:32 A.M. ET:  Stop laughing.  She actually has one.  Trouble is, it's nothing to brag about.  Take her Senate record...please.  From the Washington Examiner: 

For eight years, Hillary Clinton toiled away in the United States Senate, sponsoring many landmark pieces of legislation and getting them signed into law, forever changing the country.

Just kidding. Only three pieces of legislation that Clinton sponsored became law. None were of much consequence.

One renamed a post office in a New York town with fewer than 2,000 people. Another renamed a portion of highway outside Buffalo after the late Tim Russert. The third established a brick house in Troy, N.Y., as a national historic site to honor a 19th century female union leader.

During her Senate career, Clinton sponsored 713 pieces of legislation. Those were the three that became law. That's a legislative batting average of .004, and none of the bills had much consequence outside New York. For the most part, Clinton's bills were merely facelifts of public grounds.

COMMENT:  Devastating.  She was an inconsequential senator and a failed secretary of state.  And now she presents herself as a presidential candidate.  It's kind of like Hollywood, where many executives fail upward.  If they flop at a job, they get a higher job on the grounds that they have real experience.  If they fail again, they go higher.  After all, they've had more experience.

I recall Clinton's years as our senator.  Nobody noticed that she was there, and nobody much cared.  She was a symbol.  When she announced for the Senate, reporters noticed the number of mink coats in the crowd.  That pretty much says it.

Clinton is the classic ticket puncher.  She punches tickets along the route, and never does much that succeeds.

December 30,  2015