BOXER’S LOW BLOW - New York Post Online Edition: Seven

The junior senator from California ap parently believes that an accom plished, seasoned diplomat, a renowned scholar and an adviser to two presidents like Condoleezza Rice is not fully qualified to make policy at the highest levels of the American government because she is a single, childless woman.

It’s hard to imagine the firestorm that similar comments would have ignited, coming from a Republican to a Democrat, or from a man to a woman, in the United States Senate. (Surely the Associated Press would have put the observation a bit higher than the 18th paragraph of a routine dispatch from Washington.)

But put that aside.

The vapidity - the sheer mindlessness - of Sen. Boxer’s assertion makes it clear that the next two years are going to be a time of bitterness and rancor, marked by pettiness of spirit and political self-indulgence of a sort not seen in America for a very long time.

There’s a reason Boxer holds the hard-won reputation as the Dumbest Senator In America.

True enough, Democrats don’t hold a monopoly on appalling behavior.

Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, a Republican presidential candidate and favorite of some conservatives, has joined with Democrats in opposition to the troop surge - and he’s not alone.

The president deserves better.

Indeed, the least these critics can do is suggest an alternative that leads to success in Iraq rather than simply criticize.

We’ve been offering a clear-cut alternative here at Daily Pundit for years, but for some reason the Democrats - and the blind supporters of Bush’s strategies - don’t seem interested in even discussing it. Even Bush’s supporters seem to think it’s either his way, or the highway.

Hey, that’s a thought. Maybe I should call it “The Third Way.”

Catchy, eh?

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