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Except he didn't *have* to work with her to get his amendment passed -- and she wasn't the only co-sponsor, just the only one who used it for some cheesy self-promotion.

Yes, I've had to deal with unpleasant people at work, but I tend to not seek out further opportunities to work with them and I sure as hell don't gush over them as he did to her.

In another recent article about them pairing up on this, someone from her office basically said that she was working with him as a "thank you" for how he "took her husband to task for cheating on her."

Does he need this crap? If he felt that he needed a 'rat broad, why couldn't have approached, say, Mary Landrieu or Blanche Lincoln?

GOP senators have an obligation to avoid working with her, praising her, letting her use them to boost her national profile and credentials. She is not indispensible nor irreplaceable, and there is no need to have to resort to buddying up to her.

It's like back in the early or mid-90s when ex-Knicks coach Pat Riley used to talk to his players about *not* starring in the next Michael Jordan poster. As he told his team, each year, Nike executives would get together to examine all the great photos of Jordan's mid-air, gravity-defying feats. They would then choose the shot of the most amazing one, blow it up and sell millions of posters of it -- and in each year's poster, there was always a guy from another team who was left below on the ground, with a dumbfounded look on his face.

What GOP senator wants to be dunked on by Her Heinous? Or, to put it another way, does Lindsey Graham *really* wish to star in her next campaign ads, as "proof" that she is not only competent on military issues, but can work with "extreme right-wingers?"

GOP Chick, I hear what you are saying but this is the way I look at it - as conservatives we often criticize liberals for attacking people instead of ideas, and I don't want to fall into that trap. If the bill is good, it is good whether Hillary is associated with it or not, the bill should stand on it's own merits and not on the merits (or lack of) of it's co-sponsors.

Am I happy Hillary may get some political mileage of of this? No, but I am happy to see some consideration given to reservists, who have been called upon to do a lot the past decade or so and have not given much credit by the press. I am glad to see Mr. Graham's name associated with the bill.

In another recent article about them pairing up on this, someone from her office basically said that she was working with him as a "thank you" for how he "took her husband to task for cheating on her."

She really said that. Hope she doesn't thank him too closely.