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April 19, 2005
Again With the Right-Wing Attack Machine
Seeing as how I'm now getting email from ‘Friends of Hillary,’ I can tell I’m going to be hearing way more about the right-wing attack machine over the next few years. Let me tell you, it gets really tiring. I’d imagine her supporters don’t object too much, though. See this recent email from Clinton:
With your support, we raised $3,958,924!So just as the right wing attack machines have started gearing up to defeat me in 2006, we're sending a strong signal that we will be ready to fight back.
Apparently one per email isn’t even enough.
They're going to spend millions of dollars on personally negative attacks, hoping to keep me from speaking out on issues important to all of us, like protecting Social Security, the need to count every vote, and the dangers of the "nuclear option" that would end our democratic system of checks and balances.Well, I have news for them: I am going to go right on, working hard and speaking out against the irresponsible, extreme policies of the Bush administration that I believe are leading America in the wrong direction.
And with your continued help, we are going to go on building the campaign we need for 2006. I promise you that we will fight back - immediately and effectively - against the right wing attack machine. We have a long way to go, but because of your help during this first quarter, we are off to a great start.
You go girl!
Meanwhile, a Village Voice article talks about a little-known Republican who wants to run against her for the senate.
Never mind the new Stop Her Now movement, here's the plain truth about mounting a challenge against Hillary Clinton: Even the most seasoned politician would face a hell of a time unseating New York's junior senator in 2006.So what does that mean for the first person willing—foolhardy?—enough to say he'll take her on, a self-styled Republican everyman named William Brenner?
Last month, the Sullivan County attorney announced he was up for the task. Brenner—most folks call him Bill—is a virtual unknown outside the hinterlands of Grahamsville, his adopted hometown. ... Brenner's political pedigree consists of three failed runs, twice for State Assembly, once for U.S. Congress.
Apparently he announced his candidacy a few weeks ago, although Republicans (unsuprisingly) are searching for a slightly more well known candidate. Still, I liked this quote.
Brenner believes he's the one. "I know I'm not the favorite," he cedes. At least one county chairman has already tried to dissuade him. "He said, 'You're crazy going up against Hillary Clinton's machine—she'll chew you up and spit you out.' "
Yes, it's the left-wing attack machine.
Back in Hillary land, a separate email from Ann Lewis details that besides obstructing the confirmation of the FDA head, Clinton has been up to other things as well.
(Check out the Hillary Watch catagory for more stuff Hillary Clinton has been up to.)
Hillary joined her colleague Senator Chuck Schumer to ensure that the new fleet of presidential helicopters will be built in upstate New York. As the New York Times reported, after a last minute attempt to derail the project, the two New York Senators "...rushed to the Senate floor...and threatened to use procedural maneuvers" to tie up the bill unless the anti-Lockheed amendment was withdrawn. "This is a huge deal to our state," Hillary said. "We won this contract fair and square."Hillary also met with the President's nominee for administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and called for revision - and strengthening - of the Administration's recent regulation on mercury emissions from power plants. She spoke out against the latest Bush proposal to cut millions of dollars in funds for public housing in New York: "Without these funds, it will be an uphill struggle to provide even basic services to the hundreds of thousands of people who live in public housing across this state." Hillary said "...this is part of a concerted effort on the part of the Bush administration to punish our low income families."
While she fights for her constituents in Washington, Hillary is working for them in New York. She traveled upstate while Congress was on recess, hosting an economic development forum, discussing farm and rural issues, announcing a new pilot initiative to bring broadband technology to North Creek, and joining the demonstration of a new fuel cell powered tank being developed in Honeoye Falls.
The Glen Falls Post-Star, reporting on her trip, told how one program Hillary initiated was already making a difference:
"In a meeting with U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton in early 2003, Karen St. Hilaire casually mentioned her interest in collectables and that she wished there was some way to use e-Bay to revitalize the upstate economy. Clinton, D-NY...arranged a meeting with e-Bay executives two weeks later which led to the development of a new e-commerce program sponsored by the St. Lawrence County Chamber of Commerce...The Northern Adirondack Trading Cooperative has been so successful...[it] will be spinning off a third program later this year...Just this week, for example, a local entrepreneur who makes fishing lures received a $165,000 order from a company in Vietnam"
(The Post-Star, March 31, 2005)
Posted by illuminaria at April 19, 2005 12:22 PM
Comments
Buck up,Bunkie. Some how I, of all people, am getting crap from J.Kerry's campaign. Did you know he is gonna save the world in '08! Hillie has got problems that are going to be with her for awhile. Besides the current finance woes, there are rumblings about her professional conduct, or more appropriatly her lack thereof. Also, she is being castigated over her dealings across the water. Seems she ain't real clear on what she,as a senator, can do and promise to do as regards foriegn affairs. This is just going to get more gooder and more gooder as it develops.
Posted by: 2Hotel9 at April 21, 2005 06:20 PM