[jackbill]

Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who came in first and second, respectively, in Washingtonian magazine's "meanest" senator category, according to a survey of Hill staffers.

With Babs, it's partly a gender thing. She hates men. With women, it's "Get down or get out"?

[Irene Adler]

"Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, D-Md., who came in first and second, respectively, in Washingtonian magazine's "meanest" senator category, according to a survey of Hill staffers.

Would love to know how Harkin came out on the same survey. He's a mighty nasty guy, and I have read that he is widely disliked by his Senatorial colleagues.