First Rent-a-Yentator Barbara Boxer cried real tears when the vote for President Bush was officially certified as the lone senator who moved to oppose his official confirmation.
Then, today we had the spectacle of Miz Boxer trying to remind Dr. Rice not to "forget her place" in Rice's SecState confirmation hearings:
Rice Defends Her Integrity in Clash Over Iraq
Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday defended her integrity and honesty as she clashed with senators about Iraq and vowed to press diplomacy to repair ties strained by the war.
Testifying at her U.S. Senate confirmation hearing, Rice was questioned about the number of U.S. troops sent to Iraq, the adequacy of Iraqi forces being trained to replace them and the failure to find weapons of mass destruction that were the Bush administration's central justification for the war.
[And this has what, exactly to do with her role as the future Secretary of State?--Jen]
[...]
In a heated exchange in an otherwise generally cordial hearing, California Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer argued the Bush administration had shifted its justification for the war because it had failed to find stocks of biological and chemical weapons it had asserted were there.
"You sent them in there because of weapons of mass destruction. Later the mission changed when there were none," Boxer told Rice. "Let's not rewrite history, it's too soon to do that."
"It wasn't just weapons of mass destruction," Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, saying former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein supported terrorism, attacked Kuwait and Israel and needed to be removed given the new U.S. threat perception after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.
"We can have this discussion in any way that you would like, but I really hope that you will refrain from impugning my integrity," Rice told Boxer. "I really hope that you will not imply that I take the truth lightly."
[That's telling 'em, Condi!
It's not Dr. Rice who's forgotten her place, but Boxer.]
[...]
"We went in to rescue Iraq from Saddam Hussein, now I think we have to rescue our policy from ourselves," added Sen. John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat who failed to unseat Bush.
[Heheh! He's still chanting the Vietnam slogans.
It must suck to be him.]
"I don't take any joy in this
[Don't let him fool you--Kerry lives to carp at the "evil neocons" like Condi in the Bush Administration, It's really all he has now.
Sore Loserman lives!]
but it's ... the reality we've got to deal with. We've got kids dying over there."
[...]
Rice was national security adviser during Bush's tumultuous first term, which was marked by the Sept. 11 hijacked airliner attacks, the resulting U.S.-led wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and arguably, the worst rift with Europe since World War II.
[Ah, who is like unto Al-Reuters, except Al-Jazeera?
Note they don't mention that we brought democracy and elections to both Afghanistan and Iraq.
As for that "rift with Europe?" "Europe" means France, followed by its poodles Germany and Belgium.--Jen]
A Soviet specialist, Rice said preserving Russia's democracy was vital to U.S.-Russian relations amid worries the Kremlin is turning increasingly authoritarian, and she promised to work "personally" to promote Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Bush has chosen the 50-year-old former Stanford provost to replace Colin Powell, widely admired and often seen as the Cabinet's lonesome dove stressing diplomacy to solve crises.
Reuters isn't above inserting a "clever" reference to novelist Larry McMurtry into one of their "news" stories!
The Senate Dims are seemingly more than happy to let Barbara (Would somebody please put her in a...) Box-er be their front woman.
And they wonder why they lose elections!
Speaking of losers, Kerry's now saying he "may not" vote to confirm Dr. Rice.
Maybe this is Kerry-speak for "I voted against her before I voted for her?"
For myself, I hope this shameful, condescending and bullying treatment of Dr. Rice at the hands of the Dims will get some African-Americans off the Dimocrat plantation for good.
It's so clear that Dr. Condi is highly professional, qualified and capable--in addition to being a woman of color who has worked hard to achieve much-- that this pathetic effort to beat her for the "sins" of the Bush Administration under the pretense of examining her qualifications for the job, just because they can, is unforgivable.
And Californians, why in the world do you keep sending this Boxer shrew to the Senate?
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