White Male Senate Democrats Oppose First Black Female Candidate for Secretary of State

There's a headline that you won't be reading in the MSM, although you can bet that if Condi Rice were a Democrat, the New York Times would be paying me royalties (hat tip: Drudge):

"Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people into believing that there was an imminent threat from Iraq," Byrd said.

Kicking off the Democratic assault, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts charged that Rice, as Bush's national security adviser, provided Congress with "false reasons" for going to war. Had she not, Kennedy said in a speech, "it might have changed the course of history."

Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., accused the Bush administration of lying and said he was voting against Rice's confirmation as a way of trying to stop mistruths. Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., charged she concealed the Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites)'s skepticism that Iraq was trying to obtain uranium for a nuclear weapons program from Africa.

Oh, those poor, gullible senators, tricked into supporting a tragic war to liberate 30 million people by that wily Dr. Rice.

Oh, waitaminute, wasn't it Rice's predecessor, the sainted Colin Powell, who gave the key WMD testimony these silly people are so upset about?

Better confirm Condi quickly, then, and get that liar out of there.

[Edited to remove gratuitious Senator Byrd reference---Teflon].

In other news, Barbara Boxer gives Condi pointers on integrity: