Before my post below gives anyone the wrong idea, Maria Cantwell isn't actually so bad. She's usually a fairly reliable pro-choice vote, she's leading the charge to stop the drilling in ANWR, she's against a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, and she's talking about withdrawing from Iraq:
Maria strongly opposes the establishment of permanent military bases inIraq. She believes that 2006 must be a year of transition, when webring more of our troops home and work to achieve stability throughgreater international cooperation. The U.S. must step up political anddiplomatic efforts to bring stability to Iraq and rally the world tohelp Iraq succeed on its own. We must get the Iraqi people on theirfeet and U.S. troops home.
Carl Ballard has the goods. And as Jon O. pointed out in comments, she's not Lieberman-bad when it comes to beating up on fellow Democrats for disagreeing with Bush on Iraq. It's not like Washington State is that liberal -- Kerry only got 53% of the vote, and I hear the eastern part of the state is pretty conservative. People (myself and jedmunds, in this case) need to be more careful about whom they're calling DINOs.
