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 Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject: A Reliable Liberal |
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 A Reliable Liberal
Hillary Clinton, the former first lady of America and Arkansas, and now a twice-elected New York senator in her own right, has emphasized her 35 years of "experience" and described herself as a president who will need no on-the-job training. So, it is fair to ask: What have been the most important issues Mrs. Clinton has addressed in these capacities? And what have been the results?
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Hillary Clinton, the former first lady of America and Arkansas, and now a twice-elected New York senator in her own right, has emphasized her 35 years of "experience" and described herself as a president who will need no on-the-job training. So, it is fair to ask: What have been the most important issues Mrs. Clinton has addressed in these capacities? And what have been the results?When Bill Clinton returned to the Arkansas governor's mansion in 1983, he appointed his wife to lead the education-reform movement, the centerpiece of his agenda. After holding hearings in all 75 counties, Mrs. Clinton was instrumental in raising the state sales tax by 1 percentage point, significantly increasing spending on primary and secondary education and establishing teacher-competency exams, which, it turned out, could be passed with eighth-grade language and math skills. A decade-and-a-half after her reforms were enacted, 87 percent failed the state's 11th-grade exit exam in math; only 13 percent of eighth-graders and 24 percent of fourth-graders reached the proficiency levels in the National Assessment of Educational Progress math and reading tests, respectively; and 60 percent of Arkansas college freshmen required remedial instruction.Upon entering the White House in 1993, then-President Clinton appointed his wife to lead a task force on health care reform, the centerpiece of his agenda. The finished product was so controversial it was abandoned in September 1994 without receiving a vote in either congressional chamber. Six weeks later, Mrs. Clinton's political debacle on health care was instrumental in the political maelstrom that installed Republicans in control of the House (for the first time in 40 years) and the Senate.During the past five years, Mrs. Clinton has used her position on the Senate Armed Services Committee to burnish her military and foreign-policy credentials. However, she cast the most important vote of her Senate career — authorizing war against Iraq — in October 2002, three months before she arrived on Armed Services. At the time of the fateful vote, she had very little military and foreign-policy experience. Nevertheless, she could not find the time to visit a secure room on Capitol Hill to read the classified 90-page National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which Democrats had commissioned and which Florida Democratic Sen. Bob Graham, the then-chairman of the intelligence committee who voted against the war, begged her to read. Knowing that Al Gore's 1991 Senate vote to authorize military force to expel the Iraqi army from Kuwait was instrumental in her husband's selection of him as his 1992 running mate, Mrs. Clinton, whose presidential ambitions were evident in late 2002, may very well have sought to maximize her general-election political viability by so cavalierly casting a war-authorization vote that was at odds with the views of 57 percent of her party's congressional membership. Indeed, when she cast her vote in September to label Iran's Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization, her then-sizable national lead in the Democratic contest may have played a major role in her effort to move rightward for the general election.
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