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Posted on 01/20/2005 6:08:19 AM PST by Dog Gone
Liar!
Am not!
Liar!
Am not!
Senate confirmation hearings don't get any more raw than the bare-knuckle back-and-forth Tuesday between Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Condoleezza Rice.
Pants on fire!
That would apply to Boxer, who seems to be going through a terminal meltdown. Something is driving her over the edge, and she's determined to take the Democratic Party with her.
A week after she tearfully sided with the wackadoo wing by becoming the only member of the Senate to vote against certifying President Bush's election victory, Boxer crossed the line again. This time, she was dry-eyed as she used the hearing on Rice's nomination to be secretary of state to accuse Rice of lying repeatedly about Saddam Hussein and the Iraq war.
"Your loyalty to the mission ... overwhelmed your respect for the truth," Boxer said during a haranguing 12-minute attack based on statements Rice and Bush have made. Boxer did not ask a single question, being too busy replaying the presidential race.
Rice can take the heat. She calmly rebutted the quotations Boxer trotted out and said forcefully of Saddam, "It was high time we got rid of him, and I'm glad that we're rid of him." She also fired back at Boxer's insults, saying, "I really hope you will refrain from impugning my integrity."
"I'm not," Boxer piped up, denying the thing she was obviously doing.
The smackdown ended only when the spoilsport committee chairman, Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., said, "Let me intervene" and called for a lunch break. Just when it was getting good.
Actually, I don't have a problem with tough questions about the shifting rationale on Iraq. There is a gap between the initial talk of weapons of mass destruction and the current fixation on a democratic Iraq. It's a gap filled with our blood and treasure.
My problem is that Boxer came off as someone who needs a rest. Just as Sen. Edward Kennedy did in the hearings on Alberto Gonzales to be the next attorney general. Kennedy and Boxer both lectured Bush's nominees in condescending moral terms, with Kennedy saying, "I wouldn't have" engaged in discussions of torture.
I wanted Gonzales to ask Kennedy if he had been to Chappaquiddick lately. And I wouldn't have blamed Rice had she told Boxer to stuff it.
Boxer and Kennedy are living in the past, back when it was OK for limousine liberals to tell the rest of us how to live. And maybe they're going a little nuts with frustration because white-bread Bush was re-elected and he's the one nominating the first Hispanic attorney general and the first black female secretary of state.
Whatever's bugging them, Kennedy and Boxer need to get a grip. They're embarrassing themselves and defining their party as a bunch of sour-grapes, out-of-touch losers. All the talk about Dems moving back to the political center and working with Bush is being demolished every time these two open their potty mouths.
Of course, there is another, even more scary possibility: Maybe Kennedy and Boxer actually speak for the majority of their party.
In that case, Dems are in more trouble than they can ever imagine.
Goodwin is a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the New York Daily News. Readers may e-mail him at Mgoodwin@edit.nydailynews.com
Someone's got to encourage Boxer to run for the Democrat nomination in '08! :o)
Boxer is an idiot who is controlled by her radical left staff.
As I keep shouting at the television (like it cares), this wasn't even "questioning." It was a diatribe. As I watched, I had the feeling I knew just how Boxer treats her hired help, and that she puts Rice in the same category. You know, I keep hearing the word "racist" from DemocRATS, I've heard it for years, and it's always used against conservatives--but they are proving more and more just who the real racists are. To Boxer, Condoleeza Rice is just a servant who doesn't know her place.
Yes, I saw the Pelosi interview. Amazing how she can manage to move her lips without cracking her face--almost as amazing as how she can lie through her teeth while maintaining that permanent grimace, which I think she considers a smile.
They are relatives.
There was no doubt about that after the Wellstone funeral. It has just mushroomed since then. I love the fact that they are incapable of rehabilitating themselves. Some were along the line, they perfected this talent for self-inebriation and political hysteria... it is truly comical to see. I have not decided if they are people prone to this and find a home in the Democratic fold or if becoming a Democrat has this affect on people. Shortly after the Wellstone performance George Will observed that there is something in the Liberal culture that seems to force these people to see every single event in life through the prism of their political orthodoxy. He went on to say that this is the single worse thing for them in American politics. The majority of us see politics as a reflection of our lives not our lives as a reflection of our politics.
Answer me this. Who did Chris Dodds makeup? He looked like an extra from La Cage.
A perfect example of why the adults are in charge and the whiny children are strapped in their high chairs. Boxer deserves a timeout.
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Good point.
Boxer and Kerry look like the idiots they are to the majority of Americans. The Democrat Party continues its suicide mission further by delaying the senate confirmation votes for Dr. Rice and Alberto Gonzales. They have not learned that, while the mainstream media was trying to brainwash the American voter to vote for "Anybody But Bush", the real anger was brewing, not among Democrats, but among Republicans and conservatives. That is why GW Bush garnered almost 63,000,000 votes. If the Democrat Party continues on its present course, it will have a very bad 2006 election season. Of course, it is my strongest desire to see the Democrat "traitor" Party totally destroyed at the ballot box. We must work together and broaden our attack forces to wipe out the current Democrat Party. We have a great leader in Ken "take no prisoners" Mehlman, who now heads the RNC!!!
Great read!
Unfortunately, I can't agree. They're playing to their base. The vast middle of America has tuned out politics until October 2006.
What do you mean "paint"? Use Occam's razor. Just like Shrillary, she IS a shrill whiny leftist.
Also notice Shrillary's silence as she sets herself up to run for president.
As I keep shouting at the television (like it cares), this wasn't even "questioning." It was a diatribe.
I totally agree. There were no questions, only blah blah blah of unsubstantiated opinion with condescending overtones.
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