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Oh snap! No they di'n't! Did they? Daaaaaaaammmmn, that's cold.

I'm sure the whole time George Bush was up there on the dais on the Capitol steps, hand on the Bible being held by the Chief Justice of the United States re-taking the oath of office to solemnify and begin his second term as President of the United States, right there in the back of his mind, he couldn't help but feel vexed and defeated by his hardball-playing take-no-prisoners political opponents.

Sure, Democrats in Washington (even though nationally we seem to be only slightly under 50%) are as marginalized as a #2 party has ever been in the history of the two-party system. They have no voice, no real role, not even the ability to put up serious partisan resistance on... well, anything really, yet they still somehow mustered up the courage, the fortitude, the will and the muscle to put off the almost unanimous confirmation vote of Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State until next week.

Take that, Unstoppable Republican Political Machine! The committee version of the vote went 16-2. That's two votes against your precious Secretary of State nominee. One vote against is sticking the knife in. That second vote against is just twisting it around to make it really really hurt.

Ha! We're back, bitches!

Seriously, the only two voting against were John Kerry (what else is he going to do?) and my own senator, Barbara Boxer (D-Awesomeland). She was able to bring it all out, to publicly call "Bullshit!" on the whole Iraq debacle and Rice's role in it, to point out what a complete and total cock-up the whole thing was idealogically, logistically, logically even in terms of the PR campaign of lies Rice spearheaded during the run-up to the war.

Rice's wounded reply has been getting the most airplay:

MS. RICE: Senator, we can have this discussion in any way that you would like. But I really hope that you will refrain from impugning my integrity. Thank you very much.

What! How dare you raise reasonable and well-researched objections to an obviously flawed, disastrously expensive foreign policy mistake!

Less people are playing Boxer's awesome response:

SEN. BOXER: I'm not. I'm just quoting what you said. You contradicted the president and you contradicted yourself.

At which point Dick Lugar (R-MPHville) swooped in and cut the proceedings off. Just when it was getting really good.

So now Barbara Boxer gets to be tied to the Right-Wing Blog/Talk-Radio Whipping Post and I couldn't be more proud.

I would have more to say about the inauguration and everything but I kind of forgot to watch it. Ah well. I was busy. Because I am confused by powerful women in positions of influence who impress me, I was busy Photoshopping Boxer's head onto porn-stars bodies.

Is that wrong? It felt wrong. I guess that's what made it exciting.

Happy Inauguration Day, everybody! I'll be in the bunker if you need me.



This post on the Narcissus Scale: 7.3

Pops


- posted by Pops @ 10:01 AM