Hillary Clinton is given lately to describing herself as a Progressive who can get things done.
But if you actually look at her record, it is difficult to confirm that she has any kind of ability at all to get things done for average Americans. Her failure to get universal health care for the American people in 1993-4 immediately comes to mind.
Elizabeth Warren has told the story of how Hillary switched from opposing legislation that would hurt women to later supporting it. Hillary’s response to the implicit accusation that she switched her support from a progressive position to a pro-banker position is informative:
...And it was Vice President Biden, who was the senator from Delaware, and the Republican co-sponsor that I was talking with, so I said I’d support it even though I’d opposed it before.
This, my friends, is an example of how Hillary has gotten things done in the past. She meets with the Republican opposition---in this case the Republican co-sponsor of the bill that hurts women---and then decides to vote for the Republicans’ proposals.
You see, the problem with her claim that she gets things done, is that the only things she has been able to get done with her compromises is things that Republicans---and The Oligarchy---want.
She has never demonstrated any ability to gets things done for average Americans over the stubborn opposition of Republicans.
But that has not stopped her from repeating this empty claim that she is a progressive who can get things done, even though there is no historical evidence that she actually can (in a way that benefits average folks, anyway).