Get on With It!

I didn't get my computer back on-line until Friday of last week. I thought I had missed my chance to write about Dr. Rice's confirmation as Secretary of State because surely she would be confirmed in short order. Leave it to the blowhards in the Senate to waste taxpayer dollars by grandstanding and blocking the confirmation process. Senators Boxer, Byrd and Kerry should be ashamed of themselves. They are in the Senate to do the work of the people, not to use the Senate as platform for raising ones political stock like John Edwards and Senator Hillary Clinton have done. This wouldn't bother me as much if wasn't being reported that her confirmation was indeed assured and that Boxer and Kerry are most likely going to vote for her. But they are and that makes this delayed confirmation process an exercise in hubris and political maneuvering.

So what does all this accomplish? They've used this confirmation process as an opportunity to wallop the president's plan (or lack thereof) in Iraq. Here's the problem, we aren't leaving Iraq anytime soon so reminding the news watching public what a bad idea this was doesn't bring us any closer to leaving Iraq. In addition, the election is over, done, finite, end of line. He cannot run again so I'm not sure how much attacking President Bush on Iraq accomplishes. What are we the voters supposed to do, take our vote back? I understand that this is politics as usual and that both sides are guilty of it but that doesn't mean I have to approve of it. And what's worse is that we the taxpayers are paying for the likes of Senator Boxer and Senator Byrd to stand and cry out loud over something they (or at least Boxer) have no real intention of stopping.

This is why I think Senators should be limited to only two terms. I'm a firm believer in term limits and the current group of unabashed egomaniacs definitely needs to be reined in. Senator Boxer and especially Senator Byrd should have been booted out of the Senate many years ago. You would think that an entire body of Americans born into privilege would exhibit a bit more class.