[Miss Marple]

Let me try to decipher this. Lugar and Hagel support Rice, for whatever reason. (Lugar is my senator, and I personally think he is getting dotty, but I digress.) They have positions on the Foreign Relations Committee.

Rice recularly confers with them. That is true.

However, if Dennis Kucinich were the head of the committee, she would STILL regularly confer with him, even though he is a nut-ball. IT IS HER JOB TO CONFER WITH WHOEVER HOLDS THAT POSITION.

[Popman]

Let me try to decipher this so you no longer think I am in need of a tutorial on politics.

I fully understand Lugar and Hagel support Rice and her job is to talk with the Foreign Relations Committee no matter who is in charge of it.

I hope I passed the test, so we can move past you trying to teach me something, I already know and fully understand.

My point and only point is this: The article is basically a slam on Condi. In DC and especially the inner circle of power is relatively a small group of people who made momentous decisions. If Condi is listening to JUST people like Lugar and Hagel for advice and ignoring other people like Cheney, Bolton, Gringrich, we are in trouble.

As I side note, I certainly would hope Condi would give Dennis Kucinich her full and complete attention as head of Foreign Relations Committee and do exactly the complete opposite of his advice.