Both senators from Washington State are women: Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell. Both are liberal Democrats. Leading up to the vote to give Bush carte blanche to go to war, Murray delivered such an impassioned speech to Congress opposing the action that the Right retaliated by labeling her "Taliban Patty," and Ann Coulter put her on her "traitors list." Patty really stuck a burr under their saddle.

I like Patty. Maria (the junior senator) ain't no slouch either.

Don Firth