Douchebag Of The Week: Barbara Boxer
Boxer RebellionMike Marchand
Douchebag Of The Week
January 20, 2005
Wow. Nothing like getting served up a hanging curve in your first at-bat.
For displaying all the cordiality of Mike Tyson and all the intelligence of, well, Mike Tyson, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) wins this week’s Douchebag award.
After wasting Congress’ time and insulting America’s intelligence by being the only senator to object to the certification of President Bush’s electoral votes on January 6, her douchebaggery reached fresh depths this week, when she rabidly assailed former National Security Advisor and Secretary Of State nominee Condoleezza Rice. Guess the words “good clean fight” mean nothing to her.
Boxer spent 12 minutes delivering blows to Rice, and yet did not ask a single question. She mostly harangued Rice for statements she and Bush made concerning the war in Iraq, specifically on the issue of WMD’s.
“Your loyalty to your mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth,” Boxer said to Rice, simultaneously calling her both a stooge and a liar. When Rice defended the administration, Boxer counterattacked: “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.”
As many in the blogosphere have noted, Boxer was completely wrong. The congressional resolution authorizing war contained no less than six different reasons for regime change in Iraq.
Rice eventually got sick of having her honor trashed by a hack like Boxer and twice interrupted her grandstanding to steadfastly demand she “refrain from impugning my integrity.” At that moment, Chairman Richard Lugar (R-IN) ordered a recess before they literally came to blows.
As Boxer stated earlier in the hearing, “let's not rewrite history. It's too soon to do that.” Well, not if you’re Barbara Boxer.
A close runner-up to Senator Barbara Boxer is New York Times writer Sarah Boxer, who quite casually suggested that the bloggers who run IraqTheModel were, oh, you know, working for the CIA. Jeff Jarvis has the best response.
Bad week to be a Boxer.
posted by Marsh @ 9:53 AM
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