2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton! One of the most Liberal Senators in Congress!
On certain issues:
Hillary Rodham Clinton is a liberal Democrat on domestic matters, and Bernie Sanders is a socialist. They voted the same way 93 percent of the time in the two years they shared in the Senate.
In fact, from January 2007 to January 2009, Mrs. Clinton, representing New York, voted with Mr. Sanders about as often as she did with the like-minded Democrats Ron Wyden of Oregon and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland.
In many of the cases in which she differed with Mr. Sanders, who represents Vermont and is also running for the Democratic presidential nomination, Mrs. Clinton went with the crowd. She voted with an overwhelming majority of her colleagues, including Republicans. Her positions on the votes that differed from Mr. Sanders represented policy differences, but they may have also reflected political calculations by Mrs. Clinton, who was preparing for a presidential run in 2008.
The 31 times that Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders disagreed happened to be on some the biggest issues of the day, including measures on continuing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an immigration reform bill and bank bailouts during the depths of the Great Recession. Mr. Sanders, who formally kicked off his campaign Tuesday evening in Burlington, Vt., was opposed to all these actions.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/28/upshot/the-senate-votes-that-divided-hillary-clinton-and-bernie-sanders.html?_r=0
Look before you leap folks....
Dawgs
(14,755 posts)monicaangela
(1,508 posts)I don't know if a person voting in this manner is a person I would want to be choosing appointees for the Supreme Court or anything else for that matter.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)herself.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)Everything calculated with an end goal in mind it appears.
noretreatnosurrender
(1,890 posts)I already did my research of their records and backgrounds prior to picking my candidate. Actually I've been paying attention every day since I became politically active in the 70s.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)Hope you are encouraging others to do the same.
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)All the noise about how "they voted the same 90% of the time" masks the very BIG issues on which they are polar opposites.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)On the issues that really matter, she has more often than not come out on the wrong side of the issue, her vote has been more with the republican policy idea than the democrats in many instances.
Attorney in Texas
(3,373 posts)monicaangela
(1,508 posts)And if I understand you correctly, I would say her votes during the short period she was in the Senate as the article says appear to have been calculated so that she would look good to both parties when she ran for office in 2008.
-none
(1,884 posts)we are in more trouble than we realize.
I guess you could put it that way.
djean111
(14,255 posts)Hillary? Liberal? Even she would laugh.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)It appears she has been laughing all the way to the bank, and is about to have the last laugh if she gains the White House.
Beowulf
(761 posts)a millionaires' club.
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)that's the difference and he has been in congress for many years.
http://www.davemanuel.com/pols/bernie-sanders/
Beowulf
(761 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)defending the sacred bond of marriage as between a man and a woman, voting for the Iraq War. Her long track record of standing up for things like "communications decency".
How can anyone challenge a rock-solid liberal resume like that?
monicaangela
(1,508 posts)And there is so much more, like calling Snowden a traitor and standing up for NSA spying and the Patriot Act and a plethora of other things, she's really liberal. Oops, sorry I believe she says she's a progressive now.