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 Hillary’s Replacement Is Smokin’Posted on Mar 27, 2009
Forgive that pun, but it is clear that Kirsten Gillibrand, junior senator from New York, played an important role in fending off the Justice Department as it sought internal research conducted by Philip Morris that proved a connection between cigarettes and cancer—a causation rebuked by tobacco executives in testimony before Congress in 1994.
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By maezeppa, March 30, 2009 at 6:46 am Link to this comment
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Hey, when you’re a lawyer, you darn well better “throw yourself into” your work on behalf of your client.
Report thisBy Christopher di Spirito, March 29, 2009 at 6:24 am Link to this comment
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NRA Queen, Kristin Gillibrand, gets a 100 rating from the National Rifle Association and is one of the many reasons here in New York, Gov. David Paterson is about as popular as bird flu and will likely be defeated in 2010 by current AG Andrew Cuomo.
Report thisBy chow time, March 28, 2009 at 4:08 pm Link to this comment
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rbrooks, You note, “She (Hillary)won by persuading the jury that the canning process would have sterilized the rat, and that in some countries a rat would be considered food.”
In some countries Hillary might be considered food. Doesn’t mean it’s healthy eatin’
Report thisBy Paracelsus, March 28, 2009 at 1:02 pm Link to this comment
Just to be contrary, is there a single tobacco company that needs a bailout?
Report thisBy rbrooks, March 27, 2009 at 10:25 pm Link to this comment
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Reminds me of young Hillary’s first legal triumph, representing a company that was sued by a man who found the south end of a rat in a can of beans. She won by persuading the jury that the canning process would have sterilized the rat, and that in some countries a rat would be considered food.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/weekinreview/28liptak.html
Report thisBy C.P.T.L., March 27, 2009 at 6:07 pm Link to this comment
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And Hillary voted for the war, dissembled about it for months; relied upon the falsity to support one of the pillars of her campaign, the notion that she was ‘determined’ and ‘tough’; and in the process, helped Bush, bolstered NeoCon talking points and position; overall, did a rotten discreditable disservice to her country: sounds like a corporate creep and toady will fill her place perfectly.
Just because Democrats are on our side, in general terms stand for what we stand for, and are our current best hope, does not change that they have been, and often still are, are a collective puddle of equivocating moral mush.
Report thisBy Anarcissie, March 27, 2009 at 2:41 pm Link to this comment
I like Gillibrand so far. She has a 100% rating from the ACLU. She voted to get the troops out of Iraq. She voted against the first Grand Bailout, too. What’s not to like?
Report thisBy NYCartist, March 27, 2009 at 2:05 pm Link to this comment
After her nomination for Senator, Ms. Gillibrand said she had a couple of guns under her bed. (They were moved.) How do we get into situations where we have politicians like this? (Partly rhetorical.) I am not working hard at learning the spelling of my newest Senator’s name.
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