One thing I'll say for Maureen Dowd - she knows where to stick the knife.  For those who haven't bothered to keep up (after all, why bother?), Dowd has been obsessively anti-Clinton as long as the couple has been in national news, which is going on 40 years.

Yes, Hillary cast her vote in the Senate for the Iraq war.  70% of all Americans were enthusiastically pro-Iraq War at the start.  That left out the 30%, which included me and Barack Obama.  I opposed it because the head of IAEA inspections said Iraq had no nuclear capability, while Condi Rice threatened us with "a mushroom cloud"; and because all the leaders of Iraq's neighbor nations said that Iraq was not even a regional threat, let alone a global threat.  We got a very expensive war, not because Hillary Clinton voted for it, but because the GW Bush administration successfully lied our way into it.

The back story here (thanks, Maureen!) is that Dowd thinks Clinton can work with Congress. Successful politics is horse trading.