It was good to hear the senate committee put Rice through the wringer these past two days. Well, at least half the committee did so and Senators Boxer, Kerry, and Biden certainly turned on the screws extra tight. If Boxer didn't actually call Rice a forking liar, then she certainly implied it yesterday and again this morning. The best quote of the hearings surely came from Biden when he said "Don't listen to Rumsfeld, he doesn't know what the hell he's doing". Its too bad Boxer couldn't have been so candid.

The rest of the committee were mostly wearing their sycophant hats, patting Rice firmly on the back for having made it through another glass ceiling and congratulating her on her "performance" at the hearing. Never mind her past performance, which had been resoundingly dragged through the mud from whence it came these past two days, lets just rubber stamp her for showing up, knowing her party lines, and putting on a good act.

One thing that occurred to me, while the proceedings were just a rubber stamping affair (since Senators rarely break partisan ranks, and the Dems apparently have lost all their balls - except ironically, Sen. Barbara Boxer) it would have been nice to see such debate surround the appointment of a President. The quality, quantity and depth of questioning exceeded anything we ever saw in the Presidential debates by so much it makes me wonder how we can pay so much attention to questioning the puppets, while ignoring the puppet master in chief? Can anyone imagine George Walker Bush surviving even one day of such questioning without completely melting down and then seizing up in terminally goofy paralysis?

As they say, God bless America, 'coz now one else is going to!

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