Barbara BoxerI haven’t written anything about Barbara Boxer’s outrageous, disrespectful and sexists remarks to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.

The liberal senator from California stated to Secretary Rice:

SEN. BARBARA BOXER, D-CALIF.: Who pays the price? Who pays the price? I’m not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old and my grandchild is too young. You’re not going to pay a particular price, as I understand it, with an immediate family.

My reaction was similar to that of my Beloved Curmudgeon who asked why none of the other senators came to Ms. Rice’s defense. It seemed odd to me that they sat there without defending. My Beloved Curmudgeon read that as a lack of respect for the office of the president. He read that as the senators are hedging their bets as to who to back out of concern for their own political careers.

Most of the criticism of Boxer’s comments has been focused on her anti-feminism stand. It is ironic when one considers that she built her career on feminism. That doesn’t seem that interesting to me, progressives having a different set of rules for themselves than they have for other people is nothing new.

There is a real problem with Ms. Boxer’s statements that Jules Crittenden hits square on the head.

Guess again. Especially if you yank the troops out of Iraq with the job undone. The grandkid will most definitely have to study hard and go to college to avoid getting stuck somewhere killing jihadis.

Yes - that’s it. That is exactly the problem with that line of thinking.

Kim Priestap:

What a repugnant thing for Senator Boxer to say. She really scraped the bottom of the barrel with her questioning of Ms. Rice and she needs to apologize.

The Anchoress takes a look at presidents past and possible presidents future and their own personal risks. She also notes that this type of double-standard turned her to the right.

Fausta states what has been obvious but rarely has been spoken aloud:

I’ve said it before and I’ll continue saying that women and minorities who do not toe the Liberal line are insulted, mocked, derided and dismissed, no matter what.

Darlene has some harsh words for Boxer:

Babs was first elected to the Senate when her campaign pulled a sleeze dirty trick, and she has rarely wandered away from such schtick. Even her supposed moment of clarity when she withdrew an award from a person who hid their position with terrorist-front organization CAIR can’t quite take away from a career filled with stupidity and a craven sense of entitlement — i.e. Babs being one of the queens of check kiting in the 1992 Congressional scandal. Think any of us ‘little people’ would have been able to bounce over 300 checks and suffer no consequence?

HotAir has the video and states:

I don’t recall the lack of fruit from Janet Reno’s womb figuring heavily into scrutiny of Waco or l’affaire Elian, but that was a different time. A time of magic and wonder, when America knew peace while Osama studied flight schedules.

Jo isn’t surprised.

Its a said state of affairs - and a glaring example of the insulation of liberals in power - when an accomplished person cannot be respected or treated with respect due their office.

Beth at MVRWC

OK, since I only have a eight year-old daughter, I hereby renounce my support for the war in Iraq. After all, I don’t have to pay a personal price. After all, that’s all I have to offer the world - my motherhood status - and parenting is the only thing about which I know anything. But wait ten years, I’m sure when my daughter is 18 I’ll be qualified enough to opine, OK?

CalTech Girl

No wonder American women are conflicted. We now MUST be superwoman. We can’t be an important part of the political discourse of this country unless we’re wives and mothers, evidently.