Boxer:"I believe your loyalty overwhelmed your respect for for the truth

[Karenca]

Updated: 12:29 AM EST
Senators Argue Over Rice Nomination
By ERICA WERNER, AP

WASHINGTON (Jan. 15) - The two high-profile Democrats who represent California in the Senate are squaring off over Condoleezza Rice, the president's nominee to be secretary of state. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the senior and more moderate of the two, supports Rice and plans to introduce her at her confirmation hearing Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

That's where Sen. Barbara Boxer, a member of the committee, will be waiting to grill Rice over the war in Iraq. Boxer maintains that Rice misled the public over the war.
While Feinstein has supported the war, Boxer has been a strong critic of it.
Rice, Bush's national security adviser, lists California as her residence after having served for six years as provost of Stanford University, Feinstein's alma mater. It's customary for nominees to ask home-state senators to introduce them at confirmation hearings.
Feinstein accepted Rice's invitation to introduce her to the committee, and praised her in a statement Friday as "the natural choice to be our country's next secretary of state.''

Boxer gave a hint Friday on how she is expected to greet Rice at the Tuesday hearing.

"I personally believe that your loyalty to the mission you were given overwhelmed your respect for the truth,'' Boxer plans to tell Rice, according to prepared remarks she released Friday.

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[fooj]

1. my senator, the patriot!

Go Barbara!!!!

[zann725]

Mine too! And "President Boxer" sounds better every day...

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[MadisonProgressive]

24. Boxer for President!!! I think that's a great idea!

We should encourage her to run. By the time 2008 rolls around the wisdom of her challenge will become widespread and the gratitude of most Americans will be insurmountable!!

[dmac]

2. Yikes! Fireworks????

I haven't lived in CA for many years but when I did, I think I respected Feinstein but know I LOVED Boxer - ALWAYS.

[Helga Scow Stern]

3. Is this one of the things Boxer needed her back covered for? n/t

[madrchsod]

4. try this.....

<http://ga4.org/campaign/ricehearings/forward/dkskbbrpjmx336>
Tell-A-Friend: HOLD CONDOLEEZZA RICE ACCOUNTABLE!

[Wilms]

5. That's real good.

"cause I would have said something undiplomatic like, "CONdoleeza, are you a liar, an idiot, or both?"

[chicagojoe]

6. I've never had grilled rice. Only steamed or fried.

[me b zola]

21. shrimp or pork?

eom

[chicagojoe]

25. Chicken

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

7. What in the world is wrong with Feinstein?

[Senior citizen]

13. I think her hubby's in the defense industry.

So apart from being stuck-up, she's selfish.

She's definitely got a severe defense/industrial complex, along with delusions of grandeur, and possibly early onset Alzheimer's--she seems to have forgotten who her constituents are.

[flyarm]

18. her hubby is deeply invested in war...

and the neo cons!! big time$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

fly

[Webster Green]

8. Feinstein is introducing her and praising her?

That's it, I'm done voting for her. I'll vote against her in the primary, and not vote for a U.S. Senator in the general if she is on the ticket.

[Dancing_Dave]

9. DUMP FEINSTEIN!

What a bloody cowardly Republican-lite disgrace to the whole state of California! The majority of Californians did rightly oppose the war on Iraq, and it's going to end the same way as Vietnam. The neo-cons can't get young people to fight it, so they're calling back old reservists for "tours of duty" of over 2 years. That obviously won't work for long. Keep supporting young resisters at sites such as http://www.musicforamerica.org

[Karenca]

10. Barbara Boxer may truly be the 'Last True Democrat".

Except for Dean and Kucinich, of course.

How I love her!

[Helga Scow Stern]

11. Was she standing up for something else today too? I saw it on Raw Story

but can't find it. Was it this?

And Pelosi calling out * for saying bring it on to the insurgents.

[zimba]

12. Feinstein is the best example of a DINO there is.

[Bill Bored]

14. There's a bright side though.

If Condi is SOS, she won't be in a position to let Bin Ladin blow anything up. (I feel safer already.)

[EFerrari]

15. Barbara Boxer, master of understatement.

And I can't remember the last time I heard anyone say anything good about Feinstein. Her husband built CENTCOM, for god's sake, so no, she's not coming out against the Empire any time soon. Sad, too. Because after Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone were murdered here, she really held the city together, saw it through a terrible time. Where did that person go?

Let's run anyone against Feinstein. Californians are waiting in DROVES to vote for anyone else.

[Vinca]

19. Boxer For President 2008

A brave American who deserves to be our first woman president.

[suziedemocrat]

20. BOXER Should be President!!!!!!! n/t

[me b zola]

22. History will regard Senator Boxer well

She has my deepest respect & support.:hug:

[MadisonProgressive]

23. Is Feinstein a DINO???

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. I can't wrap my brain around this.

Feinstein endorses Rice, is introducing her and supports the war?!? How can a democrat wrap her arms around a neocon? It gives me the willies just thinking about it.