Boxer Bombs
Over at The Corner at NRO, folks are taking notice of one of the truly dim lights in the United States Senate (unfortunately, there are many from which we can choose).
John Podhoretz:
Yes, yesterday, in a hearing on Capitol Hill, Sen. Barbara Boxer intimated that Condoleezza Rice couldn't understand the pain of the war because the secretary of state has never had children — unlike, say, Boxer, who then said her children weren't in danger because "my kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young." How about the fact that there's no draft, Mrs. Boxer? This story, which made the front page of my paper today and will become major fodder for talk radio and the TV chat shows over the course of the next week, is an indication of why and how politics is so fluid. At a high-water mark for Democrats, Barbara Boxer comes along and rains on their parade. She offered exactly kind of stupid insult that resonates far outside the Senate chambers in which she spoke it — because it implicitly insults America's childless women as well by asserting they can't understand something women with children can understand.Kathryn Jean Lopez:
The Word I'm Thinking Of Rhymes with Witch [Kathryn Jean Lopez] From yesterday in the Senate:UPDATE: Jules Crittenden has a nice riposte.Rice appeared before the Senate in defense of President Bush's tactical change in Iraq, and quickly encountered Boxer. "Who pays the price? I'm not going to pay a personal price," Boxer said. "My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young." Then, to Rice: "You're not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family."When The View loses Rosie, Barbara Boxer ought to take her seat at the catty table.