Lucy Van Pelt Gets Her Bone

The irrepressible Condoleeza Rice has been nominated to be the next Secretary Of State. Not much of a surprise, really. Colin Powell utterly debased himself by acting as the lying lapdog for this president, and now Shrub's favorite neocon queen takes his place. Rice is being handed the job of stateswoman/mouthpiece after the most aggressive display of childish pique during the interval between Richard Clarke's testimony to the 9/11 commission and her own. One may recall she ran from TV talk show to TV talk show to decry how unfairly Clarke's version of events treated her role in the run up to 9/11.

Then she took the stand and tried to lie and bully her way out of giving any sort of usable testimony. To add to her lofty statesmanship, Rice proceeded to go out on the campaign trail to aggressively stump for her boss, an activity the National Security Advisor does not usually partake in. I guess she really needed a job. I dislike Dr. Rice because she has proven herself barely competent to the task of understanding the forces at play in the world, and for her willful lying about events in Iraq and the period during which she vociferously, and falsely, made the case to attack.

Her nomination falls perfectly in line with the overall cabinet shift underway. Close Shrub advisers are being shunted into major cabinet positions, for which most of them are not even qualified. Any voice of even the mildest dissent (please don't over-estimate Powell's unwillingness to go along with the Iraq war) is being pushed aside, so the entire administration will lock step the rest of us to our national doom and disgrace.