Slap! I'm Joe Biden beyotch!
By Nathan Nance
Guest post by Nate Nance
I watched some of the confirmation hearing for Condi Rice today on C-SPAN. It was day 2 and it seemed to me that the questions were a little more pointed. It probably had something to do with the good press Sen. Boxer got for her words yesterday.
But, Sen. Joe Biden (who I'm totally convinced is running in 2008) got the most meorable line in today. He said (and this is from memory because it is damned near impossible to find a transcript on the Web) "and don't listen to Rumsfeld, he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about." Or something to that effect.
Could it be that our elected Democrats are finally getting their backbones in the mail?
Of course, he followed that up by admitting that he was going to go vote yea for her confirmation in five minutes, so the answer is probably no. But it made me wonder if maybe senators should vote no for the confirmation of people they don't think would do a good job in the position they've been nominated for. I know there's "politics" involved, I'm not blind to the fact that voting nay could get them in trouble later on. But I would rally like to see some of the Democrats just be the opposition. Vote against the Republicans. Do something. Don't get get in lines like that and them capitulate because you think it is inevitable that she's going to be confirmed.
Biden's office, and indeed lot's of people, has serious concerns with her assertion that 120,000 Iraqis have been trained to fight the insurgency there. He's stated that the number is closer to just 4,000, which is a big difference. If she's going to be the Secretary of State, she's got to know this and be more forthcoming with the American people about our chief foreign entanglement.
But that didn't happen and Rice has been approved by the foreign relations committee.
This is a guest post from Nathan Nance. He can be reached at nate_nance@yahoo.com
Posted by Nathan Nance at January 19, 2005 11:21 AM
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NCAA Div II football. Our's is indeed the most perfect system of governance ever divised.
Forgive that snarky note. I just mean that the prefunctory "welcome, thanks for being here today" is enough. We've got troops on the ground, now is no time for small talk.
I also just want to say that "The time for diplomacy is now" was a statement that ruffled my feathers, too. I don't have a PhD in foreign affairs or anything, but I would guess the time for diplomacy is before you put launch a war, not two years after the fact.
I don't feel ike anyone called her on this.
So only two or three Democrats have discovered a backbone? Biden's backbone wasn't enough to vote her down. Only Kerry and Boxer seemed to be against her.
Sen. Boxer should go back an revisit her statements from 1998 when she said "these critics are blinded by political considerations". Please remember this statement was in response to our President's ordered bombing of Iraq in December of 1998 for reason of WMD inspections. She said "the president had no choice but to act today". Please also remember that this bombing was days before the Impeachment vote. Lots of "political considerations" were happening at the time. My own included.
Was she blinded then, and not now in light of the WMD findings?
