Reply #133: Who is blaming Iraq-Nam on HilBilly? She was one of a group of

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conservative Dems who participated in the Rose Garden concordat Gebhardt and Daschle negotiated with the White House in August 2002, the thinking being that going along on the IWR would take the issue off the table for the upcoming mid-terms and allow Dems to focus on the economy. (Read that and weep Max Cleland.)

I think of HilBilly more as a Bush enabler, not as a prime architect. But I'll be damned if I pull the lever for a Bush enabler. Her vote for the IWR, coupled with her refusal to apologize for that vote and her lame explanations of it since ("I was misled", "I was voting to give inspectors time," ad nauseum), when added to her vote for Kyl-Lieberman creates a pattern that shows very poor judgment when good judgment is most necessary.