This is a partial repost from an earlier thread but here's a partial list:

"As to a list of some of Sen. Obama's accomplishments: working with Democrats and Republicans to bring about an entire overhaul of Illinois' death penalty system; ethics reform of the corrupt State Senate; actually *passing* some health care legislation. In the Senate, passing legislation to get veteran's benefits improved at Walter Reed so they didn't have to pay for their food and phone calls while they recovered; working with Democrats and Republicans on nuclear non-proliferation; his very first bill was to raise the Pell Grant to $5100, and, although that didn't pass, he helped pass the new Higher Education Act recently; he passed a law w/ the guy from MO to give gas stations tax credits for switching their pumps over to ethanol fuel. He was elected Editor of the Harvard Law Review because he was so good at bringing contentious people together. And, personally, I find this charming: he hasn't missed a parent-teacher conference all year. Aside from that, he hasn't done much with his life. He IS NOT the second coming of Jesus; Michelle will tell you he's just a man, but I think it's fair to say he's fairly-well qualified to at least TRY to become President, donchathink?"

I was so ticked off, I neglected to add the Coburn-Obama Transparency Act that lets you go to USAspending.gov and see where all your federal contract money is going; the Lugar-Obama Initiative which helps reduce the number of land mines and shoulder-fired missles; and several different laws which all became "the most sweeping Senate ethics reform since Watergate," the (hokily named) Honest Leadership and Open Government Act. There was some other stuff to stop the military from unfairly discharging soldiers with "personality disorders" when they're really suffering from PTSD, and divestment from Iran's oil and gas industry, some bioweapons stuff. But, aside from that, the Junior Senator from Illinois just been chillin'.

I'm still waiting to hear about the LEGISLATIVE accomplishments of the Junior Senator from New York.