The good senator:

the final days of the competition for the second line, which ended with Wednesday's announcement that Boeing had picked Charleston, S.C., convinced [Sen. Patty Murray] that Boeing hadn't seriously pursued Everett as an option, said her spokeswoman, Alex Glass.

As a result, Murray — a Democratic member of the Senate's defense-appropriations subcommittee and longtime champion of Boeing's causes in Congress — will narrow her support of the company.

While this year, for example, she lobbied hard for Senate votes to get extra funding for California-built C-17s, in the future she'll do that only when it benefits Washington state workers, Glass said.

The very bad senator:

"I think that a lot of people may think that the public option is free," said Lieberman, one of the Senate's big spenders, in a suddenly frugal mood. "It's not. It's going to cost the taxpayers and people that have health insurance now, and if it doesn't, it's going to add terribly to our national debt."

This from a senator who, as much as anyone, helped run up the national debt since 9/11 by pushing to raise the military budget to its highest level since World War II. It is a budget inflated by enormous expenditures on high-tech weaponry irrelevant to combating terror, such as the $2-billion-a-piece submarines—produced in his home state of Connecticut—that he claimed were needed to combat Al Qaeda, a landlocked enemy holed up in caves. The same week that he and others in Congress passed a $680-billion defense bill larded with pork of the sort he has always supported, Lieberman is worried about the impact of a very limited public option on the debt.