I am sure Robert is delighted to have your approval as well Mr. Feit.

Bent out of shape? Hissy fit is a more appropriate term. Sometimes justified, others not.

I wonder when the Cantwell defenders will weigh in with their-This is only helping Mcgavick- argument.

Seme,
Acknowledged.
Like most He-Men, I dig my hissy fits.

I can see how, like many people, Cantwell might have fallen for the BS from the Bush administration soon after 9/11. The country as a whole was pretty freaked out. When Colin Powell got up in front of the UN and stated categorically that he knew Iraq had WMDs, I was convinced. But I don't understand how after 5 years of lies and completely mismanaging this war by the Bush administration, she still supports this insanity. Given the substantial majority of Americans that no longer support the war (particularly among Democrats, and particularly in WA), I would think a renouncing of the war by her could only boost her numbers. Her non-response baffles me.

I'll vote for Cantwell in the fall, but mostly because I think it is critical that the Dems retake one or both houses, and to loose her seat to McGavick would be disastrous. If there was a viable primary challenge (ie: not some completely unelectable Green), I'd be tempted to vote for her challenger.

The kind of passive support I offer will not get her re-elected. While I'll vote for her (because the alternative is much worse), I certainly will not open my checkbook for her, nor actively campaign for her. She needs to garner more than tepid support from people like me if she wants to get re-elected.

Cantwell is a complete tool, and if I can find any way to justify voting for McGavick, I will.

Gregoire (as we've seen from her silence on the pharmacists issue) is also a complete tool, which is why I voted for Rossi.

Geesh, Seth, Karl thanks you for your vote.

I love how Cantwell cluelessly told them 'No cameras, no recorders, no transcripts, no nothing and I want the questions in advance', as if the protesters weren't going to go to the press and tell them how petulantly childish she was acting, and how she didn't bother giving a straight answer to any of their questions.

There are now two candidates running against Cantwell in the Democratic party primary in September: Hong Tran and Mark Wilson. If Cantwell isn't cutting your anti-Bush regime mustard, you might consider giving them your vocal support. If they gather a significant number of votes in the primary, even if they don't win the nomination, it might be enough to get Cantwell 'scared straight'.

Gomez -- Josh's "Q&A" (in which most of the A's are replaced by Josh's characterization of Howard's characterization of Maria's answer) may not tell the whole "straight answer" story.

For a contrasting first-person account, Arthur Ruger's It wasn't Camp Casey and Maria Cantwell is not George Bush is required reading.

A fact-check or two on Josh's column may be in order as well. It's a small point, but that "sixth deployment" was not #6 to Iraq, nor was it #6 during the Iraq conflict, nor was it conventional (7 months out, 5 months back) army deployment #6 (which would have been chronologically impossible). It was the 6th special-ops assignment (three in Iraq) for Sgt. Brehm and SSgt. Barrazza, two gung-ho 75th Ranger Regiment careerists.

Dead is still dead, and a damned shame, but the context was not as represented. No wonder the Senator was speechless.