OBAMARAMA

Former-Clinton-advisor-turned-Republican-hack Dick Morris baselessly attacked Sen. Obama on FOX News on Monday. Media Matters has the video and the transcript:

MORRIS: Anybody who thinks about Obama for five minutes knows the guy’s never introduced a bill. He’s never been important. He’s spent 100 weeks in the Senate. He’s basically a — no foreign policy experience.

They also provide a sound rebuttal to the utter wrongness of Morris’s claim:

Obama was the primary sponsor of 152 bills and resolutions introduced in the last Congress, including a bill (S.2125) that passed Congress on December 8, 2006, “to promote relief, security, and democracy in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” which he introduced on December 16, 2005. The bill is awaiting action by the president. In addition, three nonbinding resolutions sponsored by Obama have passed the Senate, and 14 bills that he has co-sponsored have become law.

Obama has also introduced numerous other pieces of legislation in the U.S. Senate. For example:

• Introduced a bill (S.1194) directing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to establish guidelines for tracking spent fuel rods.
• Introduced a bill (S.1426) extending provisions in the Safe Drinking Water Act that relate to preventing and detecting contamination.
• Introduced a bill (S.1920) amending the Clean Air Act to establish a renewable diesel standard.
• Introduced a bill (S.3988) improving benefits and services for members of the armed forces and veterans.