Democrats Call Rice Liar, Bush Apologist

[vinnieponte]

The puppet spoke today trying to gain her seat. This is what happened.....

Democrats Call Rice Liar, Bush Apologist

31 minutes ago Politics - U. S. Congress


By ANNE GEARAN, AP Diplomatic Writer

WASHINGTON - One Senate Democrat called Condoleezza Rice a liar Tuesday and others said she was an apologist for Bush administration failures in Iraq, but she remained on track for confirmation as secretary of state.

Rice, who has been President Bush's White House national security adviser for four years, was one of the loudest voices urging war, Democrats said. She repeatedly deceived members of Congress and Americans at large about justifications for the war, said Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn.


"I don't like impugning anyone's integrity, but I really don't like being lied to," Dayton said. "Repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally."


Rice is expected to win confirmation on Wednesday. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., predicted that Rice would have "an overwhelming majority" of votes.


Sen. Richard Lugar, R-Ind., cautioned against "inflammatory rhetoric that is designed merely to create partisan advantage or to settle partisan scores."


Rice would succeed Colin Powell, who often found himself on the outside looking in with Bush's close circle of war and national security advisers.


By contrast, Rice is a trusted Bush loyalist. As a principal architect of the Iraq invasion and the administration's war on terrorism, she shares blame for overstating the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, Democrats said.


"My vote against this nominee is my statement that this administration's lies must stop now," Dayton said in opposing Rice's nomination on the Senate floor.


Politicians rarely use the word "lie," preferring some of the milder terms other Democrats used Tuesday.


"There was no reason to go to war in Iraq when we did, the way we did and for the false reasons we were given," said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.


Rice is not directly responsible for intelligence failures prior to the Iraq war that overestimated Saddam's nuclear capability, said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. "But she is responsible for her own distortions and exaggerations of the intelligence which was provided to her," Levin said.


"Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people," Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said.


The Senate set aside most of the day Tuesday to debate the Rice nomination after Democrats revolted against a plan to confirm Rice last week, on the same day that Bush took his oath for a second term.


"We should have been done last week," Frist said. "I was disappointed that we are having to march through the debate today. But ultimately the vote will occur."


Republicans who took the floor to endorse Rice included Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., who has been a sometime critic of the Bush administration's Iraq policies.


"Dr. Rice has the intelligence, the integrity and the experience for this job. She has the president's confidence," Hagel said.


In his dealings with Rice, "she's always been candid and honest, and she listened," Hagel said.

Rice answered 199 questions during two days of hearings before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week, Lugar said. She answered almost as many in writing, a record nearly unmatched by other Cabinet nominees through history, Lugar said.

Democrats on the committee and off it, however, said Rice dodged hard questions.

Democrats, in the minority in Congress, often resort to delaying what they cannot defeat.

Byrd, the longest-serving Democratic senator and a student of the Constitution, insisted that his party is merely doing its duty.

"I am particularly dismayed by criticism I have read that Senate Democrats by insisting on having the opportunity to debate this nomination have somehow been engaged in nothing more substantial than petty politics or partisan delaying tactics," Byrd said, his voice rising in anger.

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[reeds]

"Democrats on the committee and off it, however, said Rice dodged hard questions."

Of course the puppet dodged hard questions...Really, what could she say?? The whole damn world knows bush and the puppet were wrong..just some dont have the backbone to admit it- or do something about it....

[capitalcity]

Originally posted by: vinnieponte"Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people," Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., said.

"...and I should know a thing or two about scaring people - hell I used to be pretty good at running those damn negros outta town. You wouldn't believe how scared those coloreds would get when they'd see a big 'ol cross burning up the front yard."

Add this one up dems -
1 vindictive klansman + 1 belligerent drunk = 0 credibility

[Mavdog]

Originally posted by: capitalcity

"...and I should know a thing or two about scaring people - hell I used to be pretty good at running those damn negros outta town. You wouldn't believe how scared those coloreds would get when they'd see a big 'ol cross burning up the front yard."

Add this one up dems -
1 vindictive klansman + 1 belligerent drunk = 0 credibility

Isn't it funny how many relish the opportunity to bring up Byrd's membership in the KKK, which was when he was in his 20's, and use a phrase of "belligerent drunk" for Edward kennedy, while they at the same time would call any references to Bush's "youthful indescretions" of self admitted drunkeness and daliances with drugs a low blow? quite a contradiction.

But then consistentcy isn't among the better traits of these hypocrites.

How's this for an addition problem:
1 mistaken President + 1 ineffectibe national security advisor = 1 unnecessary war

[XERXES]

Mavdog- if it were the other way around you guys would be jumping all over it.

I'm sure glad Madeline Albright was no Clinton apologist...Geeesh....

[reeds]

the most "NO" votes since world war II !!! classic

[dude1394]

Boy the dems just keep proving Zell Miller right.

[reeds]

the puppet should be proud- after all, not everyone can be a puppet to the president..only a chosen few..and she did set a modern day record!! most NO votes since WWII

[capitalcity]

Originally posted by: reeds
the puppet should be proud- after all, not everyone can be a puppet to the president..only a chosen few..and she did set a modern day record!! most NO votes since WWII

The glass is half empty, huh reeds?

History will mark Condi's confirmation as a giant leap in the inclusion of minorities in public office.
Yet, all you have to offer the first black female Sec of State are insults and insinuations.

Remember folks, progress isn't really progress unless its orchestrated by and for the leftist elite.