Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) laughs during the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) laughs during the second day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2005. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Has Boxer committed hari-kari yet?
McCain's demo friends must think he's a loose cannon also. At least he rolled our way this time.
who are the thirteen?
(I know Boxer, Kennedy, Hillary,KKKByrd)
Anyone have a list of the bigots that voted against and who were the two that did not vote?
Disgusting that 13 would vote against her. Some group of prominent republicans needs to be assigned the task of forcefully going after the leftist dems in public, and wrapping their irresponsibility around the whole dem party.
Everyone take note of the liberal leftist demoncRATS that voted against her.
McCains comments surprised me. The Dems behaviour wasn't a surprise. But the Rino was. Will wonders never cease.
Is thirteen votes enough of a show of sympathy to convince the Deaniacs and the MoveOn.org-atroids to stay in the party? Time will tell...
Who were the 13 America haters who voted against her?
What a poorly written article by the AP. They KNOW who the 13 votes were, but only mention Ted Kennedy, Kerry and Jeffords.
Andrea Mitchell was on MSNBC and immediately listed the 13: I started writing them down, but only got 8: Kerry, Boxer, Bayh, Jeffords, Kennedy, Reid, Levin and Dayton. Hopefully the vote will be posted at the Senate's website soon.
VOTE DEMOCRAT
"The Senate voted 85 to 13," which indicates to many observers that 13 current senators need to be retired by ballot, or failing that, by term limits.
On the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., suggested Democrats are sore losers. Rice had enough votes to win confirmation, as even her Democratic critics acknowledge, McCain said. "So I wonder why we are starting this new Congress with a protracted debate about a foregone conclusion," McCain said. Since Rice is qualified for the job, he said, "I can only conclude that we are doing this for no other reason than because of lingering bitterness over the outcome of the election."Oddly enough, I don't think Sen M is running for president. He must realize that he's unelectable as president, but practically unbeatable as a senator. He is working to build party unity I think. That could make him a viable (if not competitive) candidate, so long as he has no more Dean moments, and cozys up to the president. At the very least, it will give him influence within the RP, and that is sure to tick off some people. With GWB, his negatives were almost entirely seen among people from the minority party who weren't going to vote for him anyway. McCain is better known for his non-conservative positions, rather than for his conservative ones. And by 2008, with the DP shredding itself, and no big issue out there (that one is a big if), the MOR vote would roll this way.
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Ya know, I have to hand it to Bush. The nomination of Condi was not only a brilliant move on his part to get us an eminently qualified SOS but, politically, it was a stroke of pure genius.
The Dems have bad-mouthed her but they really couldn't afford to vote her down without thoroughly alienating one of their core constituencies. The Dems know they have been had and they had no choice but to confirm her. I would love to have been a fly on the wall, however to listen to the Dem Senate Caucus decide who was going to cast votes against here. Sen. KKK Byrd was an obvious choice but, for the rest, there had to have been 12 short straws to decide who didn't want to be re-elected.
What a conundrum . . . . . and too funny!!!
(And the Dems say Bush is dumb!!!)
Does anyone know who started the the story that Bush and his people actually lied about WMD's in Iraq?
I figure it was MoveOn or Answer, or one of the tried and true hard left socialist groups (guess that means any of the Dem politicians, for that matter). But I now keep hearing "Bush lied" from ordinary people on the street who should know better and I'd love to let them know who they are quoting when they say that.