Arthur Silber has a petition appeal from Barbara Boxer. As Arthur says:
Just do it. It would be awfully nice finally to have someone in this administration held accountable for something, for God’s sake. And perhaps if Boxer has several hundred thousand signatures on her petition, a few other Democrats will manage to remember where they left their spines.
It shouldn’t at this point, but it nevertheless astounds me that Boxer is portrayed as the villainess in this business – simply because she’s asking the questions and raising the issues that every single American over the age of two ought to be asking. So give her some support. She’s doing the hard and absolutely necessary part, and only being vilified for it.
For those spineless Democrats who’ve let Boxer take all the heat, James Wolcott has this to say:
Why is Barbara Boxer out there all alone asking the tough questions about Condi Rice’s snail trail of deceit and fearmongering? She has the audacity to act as if the Senate actually has some traditional advise-and-consent role to play and for her pains is caricatured as a shrieking harridan on Saturday Night Live and a witch on talk radio. Boxer was terrific today on CNN, refusing to back down and reiterating her questions and objections regarding Rice with emphatic clarity while Sen Lugar mumble-mumbled some pathetic excuse-making about how Rice didn’t deliberately mislead the country re Iraq’s WMDs, she just did the best she could under the circumstances. Look, Biden and the rest of you Democratic punk-asses–get behind Boxer or get lost. She shouldn’t be up there on the parapet alone, not with this wrecking crew trying to gear us up for war on Iran.
So, OK, maybe you don’t agree with Boxer on everything, or many things or even a few. But, surely you agree that Rice should be held accountable for propagating the lies that the Bush Administration hawked in order to attack Iraq. If so, sign the thing.
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