(2005-01-19) — On Day Two of her confirmation hearings, Condoleezza Rice admitted today that she has “no exit strategy” to extricate herself from what has already become a “pointless, hopeless quagmire.”
“I’m bogged down, taking wearying fire from the opposition,” said the Secretary of State nominee. “Even though the outcome is certain, I confess that I failed to anticipate the intensity of the resistance, and contrary to our pre-hearing intelligence, there are no stockpiles of No-Doz or other anti-soporifics in the chamber.”
Sen. John Kerry, D-MA, a new face in 109th Congress, called for “an immediate withdrawal of the nominee and an end to Republican ideological hegemony in the Bush administration.”
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1 basil's blog // Jan 19, 2005 at 12:35 pm
Wednesday Lunch Special: Obama Been Lauded
I brought the laptop to work today. I had planned on catching up on a couple of things I didn’t finish last night, but surfed the Internet instead. Anyway, here’s today’s lunch special:
WuzzaDem has a transcript from Hardball featuring Barack Obama….