Three Notes from the Rice Hearing

From the Senate confirmation hearing with Secretary of State-designate Condoleezza Rice:

Barbara Boxer, Democrat from California:

Your loyalty to the mission you were given, to sell this war, overwhelmed your respect for the truth.

Barbara Boxer is becoming one of my heroes.

Condoleezza Rice:

I have to say that I have never, ever, lost respect for the truth in the service of anything.

Can’t lose what you never had?

Our interaction with the rest of the world must be a conversation, not a monologue.

Lucky for Condi that her boss doesn’t read newspapers, or he would yank this nomination so fast your head would spin.