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
No! Its not funny and the democrat party is a corrupt enterprise. We need a patriotic media to expose their corruption and honest justice to be enforced. We need to see some of these pos in prison.
It's about time.
LOL
Also, I've been wondering. Was that a dead animal draped over her head?
Barbara Boxer is such a reprehensible b**ch that she has the potential to take down Dem candidates outside California. And minority voters have to be totally turned off by this spectacle. Slogan: "If Boxer's good enough for the Dems then the Dems aren't good enough for me".
Good article, it's great to see the Democrats described in these terms, but the article missed the fact that Boxer is the one who lied (a nod to Best of the Web). Boxer evidently never read the resolution to go to war with Iraq, or purposefully mischaracterized it. She also shamefully exaggerated the percent of those who have died in Iraq from her home state, claiming a disproportionate 25%, when the reality is 11%.
"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!!!"
Yahooo!...
You know what's a fun thought exercise is to compare the intellects of Barbara Boxer and Condoleeza Rice. I mean, it's literally a case of a fly compared to an elephant, a pygmy against a giant. I remember the one "debate" in the Senate on the partial birth abortion bill where Santorum sliced and diced Boxer into a stammering, quivering piece of intellectual jello. I know there are some good people in the U.S. Senate but nitwits like Boxer and Murray and Kennedy are just an embarrassment.
...more like a Spit-Wad Shooter to the fight. 8^)
"Saddan Hussien has been engageed in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspections process" - Rep. Nancy Pelosi D-CA Dec 16, 1998
Did you "lie" Nance?
The painted-on frown, the pained manner of speech, the incessant pious moralizing....she is such a blatantly transparent phony, it is painful to watch on simply a human level.
That would be their "Earth Day" carpool photo. And if they were nude, could work for Zero Population growth. Talk about killing the urge..
Your words reminded me of those written by Mona Charen when Boxer was making her first run for the Senate, where Boxer was appropriately categorized as "the keening queen of the Welfare State". Keening, indeed.
Unfortunately, given the demographics and recent voting trends of CA, I'd say Boxer probably has that Senate seat for life. All she has to do is keep bad-mouthing conservatives and agitating (keening) for more free money from de gummint ("for the needy") and the sheeple will keep voting her in.
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