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
You forgot the RAT, Sinator Harry Reid, who makes Nevada look as bad as it possibly can. Just think, the casino owners financed Reid, so they are getting double payback, mega donations from the brain-dead gamblers and from US taxpayers as well.
I LIKE THAT!!! THANKS
Some of the wackos over at DU are plumping her candidacy already.
....and I believe Bush and the RNC have just helped CONDI take one of her first steps! ***CONDI 2008***
Truth hurts.
Don't bring a knife to a gunfight.
Boxer fights unarmed in a battle of wits with Condi...
the same can be said for KKK Byrd. Hates them black folk and Condi is only another slave to his ilk. Keep em down.
My problem is that Boxer came off as someone who needs a rest.
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Yeah, and why the Harry Potter look?
Sorry. Couldn't help it (meow!)
"The smackdown" -- A TKO.......... From the opening bell, Boxer was out-manned by the professional Rice. With little time left Rice caught Boxer off balance with a right to the jaw that briefly knocked her down, Rice: ""I really hope you will refrain from impugning my integrity."
The victor, left the trembling, bloodied, embarrassed Boxer in her corner as she spit her mangled mouthpiece into the water bucket.
Hair disheveled, lip and eyes swollen, this Boxer was done...........and her cornermen knew it. Boxer's wild and careless punches continually missed the calm and precise Ms. Rice.
A TKO alright.
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