{"id":198060,"date":"2007-12-18T06:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T11:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/18\/obama-as-a-do-nothing\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T06:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T11:06:00","slug":"obama-as-a-do-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/18\/obama-as-a-do-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama as a Do Nothing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Clemons compares what Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have done in the senate, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewashingtonnote.com\/archives\/002589.php\">the difference is striking<\/a>.  While neither of them chair a full committee, pretty much every senator gets a subcommittee.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton has the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, and Obama has the Foreign Relations&#8217; Subcommittee on Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health last held a hearing on October 17, the Foreign Relations&#8217; Subcommittee on Europe has had no meetings.<\/p>\n<p>None&#8230;Zip&#8230;Nada&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s be clear, it is a chair of committees that senators get executive experience.  What&#8217;s more, it where a senator who wants to be president learns how to deal with Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Clemens excuses saying that he&#8217;s, &#8220;not trying to find a minor, nuanced difference between Obama and Clinton and inflate that to inappropriate levels.&#8221;  I agree.  This is not minor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Clemons compares what Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have done in the senate, and the difference is striking. While neither of them chair a full committee, pretty much every senator gets a subcommittee. Clinton has the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health, and Obama has the Foreign Relations&#8217; Subcommittee on Europe. The Subcommittee on &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}