I think you're right: (from the column)
"Of course, W. was swaddled by three strong women - Laura Bush, Karen Hughes and Condi Rice - who cleaned up after his political messes."
What she means by cleaning up his political messes, is left in Dowdie's alcoholic haze, and yet she always leaves you knowing she is tremendously jealous of Laura.
Something tells me that Dowd hasn't had sex (at least with another person) in so long, she'd take it any way she could get it!