GOP catches Hillary fee-vah

“Very knowledgeable,” Sen. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) said after a private meeting with her Thursday. “Her appointment is a net plus for the administration and the country.”

“She’s been tested in a lot of ways,” said Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), who called Clinton a “known commodity.”

The warm reception reflects in part the courtesy the Senate extends to its own and to a popular new president. But it also shows how attitudes from across the political divide have eased over the course of Clinton’s long public life.