Andrew, as one would expect, is defending his candidate:
It was a great line:
“Listening to [Obama] speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or even a reform, not even in the state senate.”
I guess we should thank Matt Scully for inserting the word “major.” You can go look at Obama’s State Senate legislative record here. And his US Senate record here. At last count, sponsorship of 820 laws in Illinois, and authorship of 152 bills and co-sponsorship of 427 in Washington.
Let’s take “authorship” at face value. So, in three and half years in Washington Obama has “written” 152 new pieces of legislation? And supported 427 more? The Senate tends to sit for around 160 days a year, meaning Obama* has been in Washington for something like 600 days of Senate activity: in other words (unless I have this wrong: always possible!) he’s supporting a new bill almost every day.
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