The national circus around the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court has shined a spotlight on Kirsten Gillibrand, the junior senator from New York.
Gillibrand has made a career of rhetorical opportunism, and she's willing to jettison allies, commitments, and the truth in the service of her own advancement.
Elected to the House in 2006, Gillibrand represented a conservative upstate district running along New York State's eastern border, and including rural Delaware County.
Gillibrand's 2009 appointment to the senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, who became Secretary of State, was widely believed to have been orchestrated by her mentor Al D'Amato, the former senator and powerful New York lobbyist, who stood with Gillibrand and then-Governor David Paterson at the podium when her selection was announced.
The flowering of the #MeToo movement gave Gillibrand a wide new platform.
These maneuvers brought her some notoriety, though they have cost her in regard to her already-weak legislative capital; in 11 years of serving in Congress, Gillibrand has sponsored just one bill that became law-the naming of a post office in Washington Heights after deceased councilman Stanley Michels.
After throwing her fellow senator, a former president, her home congressional district, and her previously stated beliefs under the bus, Senator Gillibrand has now come after due process and the rule of law.
https://www.city-journal.org/kirsten-gillibrand-16191.html
Gillibrand has made a career of rhetorical opportunism, and she's willing to jettison allies, commitments, and the truth in the service of her own advancement.
Elected to the House in 2006, Gillibrand represented a conservative upstate district running along New York State's eastern border, and including rural Delaware County.
Gillibrand's 2009 appointment to the senate seat vacated by Hillary Clinton, who became Secretary of State, was widely believed to have been orchestrated by her mentor Al D'Amato, the former senator and powerful New York lobbyist, who stood with Gillibrand and then-Governor David Paterson at the podium when her selection was announced.
The flowering of the #MeToo movement gave Gillibrand a wide new platform.
These maneuvers brought her some notoriety, though they have cost her in regard to her already-weak legislative capital; in 11 years of serving in Congress, Gillibrand has sponsored just one bill that became law-the naming of a post office in Washington Heights after deceased councilman Stanley Michels.
After throwing her fellow senator, a former president, her home congressional district, and her previously stated beliefs under the bus, Senator Gillibrand has now come after due process and the rule of law.
https://www.city-journal.org/kirsten-gillibrand-16191.html
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