Boxer’s navel gazing Newspeak

I was very impressed, as George Orwell would have been, with Barbara Boxer’s comeback when she was criticized for attacking Condi Rice personally during Senate hearings. Boxer let us, the Americans, know that her words weren’t spoken in terms of policy, ideas, or military strategy. No, no — nothing so manly or practical. Instead, in a California girly-girl way, they were the result of deeply felt personal feelings and an effort to establish friendship bonds with Rice. You doubt me? Here’s Boxer in her own words:

Boxer, defending herself against critics from the right, said Friday that she was “speaking truth to power” at a Senate hearing Thursday when she confronted the secretary of state — who is unmarried and childless — noting that neither she nor Rice will “pay a price” personally for sending more American troops to war.

“I was just saying what I felt,” the California Democrat said in an interview with The Chronicle. She said she would not apologize for the exchange because “I delivered a very strong message and tried to find common ground with her … and I tried to draw us together, and not apart.’‘

Yech! I’ve been slimed, and I think I’m going to take a shower now.

del.icio.us | digg it