Boxer's Low Blow

January 12, 2007 -- Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling scold from California, wasted no time yesterday in dragging the debate over Iraq about as low as it can go - attacking Secre tary of State Condoleezza Rice for being a childless woman.

Boxer was wholly in character for her party - New York's own two Democratic senators, Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, were predictably opportunistic - but the Golden State lawmaker earned special attention for the tasteless jibes she aimed at Rice.

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."  ...

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Video: Boxer gets personal with Condi at Senate hearing
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I don't recall the lack of fruit from Janet Reno's womb figuring heavily into scrutiny of Waco or l'affaire Elian, but that was a different time. A time of magic and wonder, when America knew peace while Osama studied flight schedules.

Nice to see this particular corollary to the chickenhawk argument for once being used against someone other than Bush and his daughters, though. I wonder, what implications might it have for those childless supporters of the war in Afghanistan among us, such as Purple Heart awardee Col. Glenn Ellison "Duke" Ellers? The mind reels.

Note Condi's reaction. ...

Other good related posts:

• A J Strata: Sadr's Bluster, Boxer's Hate

• Kim Priestap: Barbara Boxer Must Apologize to Secretary Rice

• The Anchoress: Boxer and the sonless presidents

• Greg Tinti: Boxer's Comments on Condi's Family

• Bill Quick: Dumb As A Box of Boxers

• Lorie Byrd: On "Paying the Price"

• Bookworm: Barbara Boxer bon mots

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• Bookworm: Boxer’s navel gazing Newspeak

• Allahpundit: Boxer: I spoke “truth to power” by suggesting that childless hawks are moral monsters

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