A History Lesson For Sen. Boxer

Unless you're from New York or Illinois, you have no idea how painful it is to be represented in the Senate by someone embarrassingly awful, since there (fortunately) are not enough Boxers, Schumers and Durbins to go around.

Boxer is a walking argument against strict constructionism because her views do not represent most of the people in this state; she just happened to get in because of a particularly vicious smear campaign against a good man.

That's why it's so refreshing to see her intellectual dwarfism and integral dishonesty trumpeted in an LATimes op/ed. David Gellertner just takes her apart, focusing on recent testimony by Condi Rice before the Senate. Boxer started with the old, tired, irrelevant "no WMDs " challenge, and Gellertner picks it up:

Rice answered that this is the way the world works. For example, we did not go into World War II to build a democratic Germany…. Here Boxer interrupted. World War II, she told Rice curtly, has nothing to do with Iraq. Boxer had lost relatives in the Holocaust. No one had to tell her about World War II.

But Rice's analogy was exactly right.

He goes on to give a war-by-war lesson in American history -- and in each one, the stated purpose for entry was not what we ended up fighting for. Please read it; it's a wonderful piece, made better by being published in the biggest paper in Boxer's state.

h/t Real Clear Politics