Reply #19: One problem with your analysis is you don't subtract for the harm done.

[mahina]

You have to factor in the damage done to our country with the votes for shredding the constitution, torturing people, giving tax breaks to zillionaires and de-funding the safety net that gives our poorest people SOME help, defunding education, defunding public broadcasting, etc etc etc.

I also completely reject your premise that the Senator is not effective. Using Ed's reasoning, you measure effectiveness by bills passed. OK, if I'm reading this right the Senator had 107 bills he sponsored, of which 19 became law. Ed Case sponsored 16 bills of which, 0 became law.

Ed Case quotes the Time Magazine article on Senator Akaka in his commercial where Time states Akaka is “A master of the minor resolution in a bill that dies in committee”.
Ed Case has 15 of his 16 sponsored legislative items sitting in committee and they have been there for some time.
Worse, he submitted only 1 piece of Legislation in 2006. (Source: Library of Congress- THOMAS)
We paid for him to “Talk Story” instead of legislating in 2006.

But the part that really gets me is that Ed turned out to be such a liar. I went from disagreeing with him, being dissapointed in his voting record, to seriously having no respect for him as a result of his consistant and intentional misrepresentation of the facts. He does not deserve to hold the Senator's shoes, never mind his seat in the Senate. I think he is a dishonest (and very selfish) person.