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Originally Posted by MattLarson
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First, Hillary and Schummer have similar values so of course they are going to vote similar. What does the info you provided prove? Nothing besides they came to the same conclusions on many issues.
You may or may not like the things that Hillary Clinton voted for or sponsored in the Senate. But to me, the most striking accomplishment is this: her ability to reach across the isle and rally Republican Senators to her side. Even Republicans who once hated her are now eager to work with her. 49, count 'em, 49 Republicans have cooperated with her in the Senate. Why? Because she's easy to work with and she get things done. That's why.
Love her or hate her, I recommend reading the Atlantic online's extensive article on Hillary Clinton:
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Then he turned to her and asked, “Mrs. Clinton, will you forgive me?” Clinton replied that she would, and that she appreciated the apology... Brownback told me recently. “It brought me close to someone I did not ever imagine I would become close to.”
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Yet by this past spring, when Lott and Clinton introduced legislation to remove FEMA from the Department of Homeland Security, forty-nine Republicans shared the designation of having cooperated with her, including many who once numbered among her fiercest critics.
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Her deft touch with conservative colleagues has thus far neutralized the Republican National Committee’s strategy of getting people to put her in the same mental category as bumbling liberals like Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean. She’s no easy target. Her partnerships were deemed so successful in moderating her image that Karl Rove, according to a source close to him, sent word last year to halt Republican cooperation with her—an edict that has been ignored. As the atmosphere in Washington has deteriorated, Clinton has emerged within the Senate as the unlikeliest of figures: she, not George W. Bush, has turned out to be a uniter, not a divider.
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How Hillary Clinton turned herself into the consummate Washington player
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01-31-2007
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