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Senator Barbara Boxer and Congressman Neil Abercrombie are lucky they displayed their appalling lack of decency towards someone other than the injured starting quarterback for The Philadelphia Eagles. Neither individual could muster an intelligent question to ask Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, so they went for the bean ball pitch instead.

Rather than make America question further The War in Iraq, the performances put on by these two buffoons only made anyone aware of these lickspittles question the lack of quality human beings serving in the 110th Congress. It was as if the Democrats had ended the Culture of Corruption and elected to replace it with no culture at all.

Somewhere in Sacramento, California, a certain governor, who wants to retire to the US Senate; had to be grinning from ear to ear. Boxer, rather than asking detailed questions about how The State Department plans to actually fix Iraq, had this to offer at the Senate Condoleezza Rice bear baiting.

"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."

While it’s touching that Barbarian Boxer has children she wouldn’t eat for the sake of political expediency, her comment bears an implicit standard of who can effectively serve in government. Mainly, it serves to bar single, childless women. Apply that standard to Elizabethan England, and no one would understand my nonsensical reference to Elizabethan England. People would suffer similar confusion when I mentioned the name Cleopatra.

Neil Abercrombie perhaps took pity on Senator Boxer. He couldn’t stand to see her look so bad in a public forum. Hence, he opened his own yam trap and effectively shifted the spotlight. Perhaps if Congressman Abercrombie weren’t tethered to a palm somewhere in the vicinity of Honolulu, the gaseous cloud between his ears would empower to float buoyantly through the air, high above the beautiful Pacific Ocean. Whatever is in his cranium didn’t help him much when he offered up this opinion of Secretary of State Rice.

Abercrombie referred to Rice as "the most overrated underperforming individual in executive authority that I have ever seen" in an interview published this week in the "Honolulu Star Bulletin."

In response to a follow-up question by Star Bulletin columnist Richard Borreca whether race or gender had anything to do with it, Abercrombie continued, "She constantly gets a pass. Who knows if the whole question of race and gender come into it? But I can't account for it except to say she isn't up to the mark."

So riddle me this Batman, if Condoleezza gets to be stupid because she is black, what protects Neil Abercrombie? Perhaps it’s his total lack of any significant contribution to the country after decades of Congressional service? At least Secretary of Rice assumes the burden of responsibility commensurate with her salary and job title. Congressman Abercrombie seems the sort that would offer the nation absolutely nothing unless he pashed his hash pipe on to the left.

This reminds me of a sordid episode a couple of years back involving the time Rush Limbaugh swallowed his loafer with foot attached while discussing Eagles Quarterback Donovan McNabb. Limbaugh suggested, just like Abercrombie did about Rice, that Donovan got given a 5th down because he was black.

Limbaugh received a condign racking over the coals of societal outrage. Even I thought he’d gone beyond basic civility in disparaging Donovan. This was before Terrell Owens showed the NFL and it’s fans how to properly treat Donovan McNabb like a pile of excrement, but still, I figured Rush should have put that whole monologue back in his pocket and feel good that Donovan didn’t file a lawsuit.

Abercrombie; he thinks he’s cute. He thinks he made a funny at the expense of Condoleezza Rice. What he did, just like Barbara Boxer, was shamefully abrogate his professional responsibility during what could have been a pivotal pair of Congressional Hearings.

If Barbara Boxer and Neil Abercrombie both believe Secretary of State Rice can’t or won’t serve both competently and selflessly as a powerful public figure, they need to show us how and why. This is not just a slogan, not just a sound byte. It’s their job as The People’s elected representatives in both the House and Senate.

So what if Condoleezza Rice is black and has no kids? How does that bear exactly on the War in Iraq and what should or should not have happened there? It doesn’t. It’s a copout. These tactics are yet another example of the Democratic Party’s leadership engaging in cut and run.

If I had to choose between electing a single black woman with no kids who, oh by the way, was able to do a whole lot more with classical music than just listen to it on NPR, or reelect an overrated blowfish of a Senator, the decision wouldn’t require me to make like Joe Theismann and consult with Norman Einstein. The same principle could hold true for the voters in California. Perhaps this fear motivates Boxer’s irrational hatred of Rice. She doesn’t even have to lose to Rice in a Senate race yet to know how badly it would feel.