Boxer's Interminable Meltdown

The New York Daily News has an appropriate write up about Senator Boxer's attack on Secretary of State designate Condoleezza Rice:

Liar!

Am not!

Liar!

Am not!

Senate confirmation hearings don't get any more raw than the bareknuckle back-and-forth yesterday 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.

In Boxer's case, the confirmation "hearing should be called a talking. The transcript thoughtfully provided
by the Los Angeles Times, shows that during Boxer's "questioning" of Rice required 2488 words and Rice's responses took only 934 words. Worse, boxer rambled on for over 2100 words before Rice finally interrupted asking, "Senator, may I respond?"

After Chairman Lugar diplomatically intervened, "Yes, let me just say that I appreciate the importance of Senator Boxer's statement. That's why we allowed the statement to continue for several more minutes of time." Senator Boxer retorted, "I'm sorry, I lost track of time."

Too bad that's not all she lost track of. As was not so patiently explained at Ankle Biting Pundits, Boxer was way off the mark when she stated at the so called hearing:

SEN. BOXER: Well, you should read what we voted on when we voted to support the war, which I did not, but most of my colleagues did. It was WMD, period. That was the reason and the causation for that, you know, particular vote.

If Boxer would have bothered to read what they voted on she should have realized the Joint Resolution
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq includes seven reasons, not just WMDs:

1. Iraq's harboring of Al-Queda terrorists
2. Iraq's support for International Terrorism
3. Iraq's "brutal repression" of its citizens
4. Iraq's failure to repatriate or give information on non-Iraqi citizens detained and captured during Gulf War I, including an American serviceman;
5. Failing to properly return property wrongfully seized during the Kuwait invasion
6. The attempted assassination of former President Bush in 1993
7. America's national security interests in restoring peace and stability to the Persian Gulf

I will give Boxer credit for being consistent. Unlike Kerry, Boxer voted against both the Joint Resolution
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq and Rice's confirmation.

Comments

[FlibFlob]

Condi was so brittle she could have shattered into a million pieces. She may yet. For Boxer, not Condi, to be the this hearing's Repub spinsters' focus shows the depths to which the Right wing will stoop to avoid basic accountability issues.

You'd think they'd find _something_ to address the basic issues of Condi's willingness to please her husband by taking the country into a war on false pretenses... the truth isn't even on the table. Oh well. At least more and more of the country is getting as sick of it as the 'Left wing loonies' are.

Especially the parents of the dead soldiers who didn't die to protect us from imminent WMD attack after all.

[Maggie]

There is something extra painful for me .....watching a female member of one minority (Jewish) so VISCIOUSLY attack a female member of another minority for POLITICAL PURPOSES!