Victor Davis Hanson wasn’t real impressed with Barbara Boxer’s showboating at the Condi Rice confirmation hearing:
Democratic idealism that once alone gave the nation its needed social safety net, civil rights legislation, and environmental protection is becoming ossified and in danger of ensuring a permanent party of strident second-guessing and deductive furor at the loss of almost all political power. A majority of the state legislatures and governorships is lost. The Senate is lost. The House is lost. The Presidency is lost – the Supreme Court almost. Whether Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, or Alberto Gonzales, “minorities” no longer have any need of liberal gate-keepers – or of a particular patron like Barbara Boxer.
Only by policing its ranks of such despicable scum as Boxer does the party stand a chance of making a comeback.