This one is disgustingly low, even for a bitch like Barbara Boxer.

Condoleezza Rice came under a shocking Democratic attack yesterday - as a childless woman who canÂ’t understand the sacrifices made by families of U.S. troops in Iraq. In a bitter personal assault on the secretary of state during her appearance before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, anti-war Sen. Barbara Boxer fumed that Rice didn't comprehend the "price" of the war.

"You're not going to pay a particular price, as I under stand it, with an immediate family," Boxer (D- Calif.) ranted.

"Who pays the price?" she repeatedly demanded during Rice's Capitol Hill grilling.

"I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old, and my grandchild is too young . . . So who pays the price? Not me, not you."

Boxer continued:

"You can't begin to imagine how you celebrate any holiday or birthday. There's an absence. It's not like the person's never been there. They always were there, and now they're not, and you're looking at an empty hole."

Excuse me? Apparently the pro-choice feminist Boxer wants to disqualify and disparage a highly qualified and accomplished woman – the Secretary of State – from participating in the formulation of public policy on Iraq because she has not borne a child. So much for the notion that Democrats respect a woman’s right to choose, and value a woman’s brain over her uterus.

Dr. Rice, of course, responded in the sort of fashion that shows why she should be on the 2008 GOP ticket.

The unflappable Rice responded at the packed hearing that she well understood the sacrifice of service members and families.

"I visit them. I know what they're going through," said Rice, who has never been married and has no children.

"I talk to their families. I see it. I could never and I can never do anything to replace any of those lost men and women in uniform, or the diplomats, some of whom . . ."

At that point, however, the Wicked Witch of Marin County interrupted Dr. Rice and refused to allow her to continue her too-the-point answer – and made an even more offensive attack on the Secretary of State.

"Madam Secretary, please," Boxer said. "I know you feel terrible about it. That's not the point. I was making the case as to who pays the price for your decisions."

Good grief! Is this really an attempt to argue that being childless renders one less of a citizen and less worthy of commenting on political matters – an irrelevant and intellectually bankrupt ad hominem attack not dissimilar to the “chickenhawk” meme the left has used for years?

I’m curious – would Senator Boxer suggest that other childless officials are equally incompetent to formulate military policy? You know, someone like the Sugar Plum Fairy Barney Frank, who is also single and childless. Probably not – because he is on her side, and because only liberals have the requisite "sensitivity" to empathize with the pain of others.

And let me speak as a man with no children despite the deepest desires of both my wife and I -- I feel the absence of the miscarried children on every holiday, every birthday, and the anniversaries of those losses. And as a teacher with dozens of former students in uniform, including a least a half-dozen currently deployed in combat zones, each announcement of a local casualty leads me a moment of dread -- Is it Angel or Andrew? Jason or Marcus? Am I about to hear them say Ricky's name, or see Robert's picture on the television screen. These are my boys, of whom I am most proud and for whom I fervently pray. In two cases I also taught their wives, and I have held one of their daughters in my arms as I have beamed with pride at the fine young man her father has become. And having grown up as a part of the military community during Vietnam, I know just how real the dangers are any time we commit our armed forces to the field of combat. It is for that reason that I am particularly offended by Barbara Boxer's reprehensible attack upon the my fellow educator, Dr. Rice.

And I therefore passionately cry out against this mean-spirited and dishonest assault upon the character and humanity of Condoleezza Rice.

Shame, Senator Boxer!

Shame!

UPDATE: Secretary Rice makes a great retort in an interview with the NY Times -- and clarifies what feminism really is, as opposed to the false version espoused by Boxer.

In an interview this afternoon with The New York Times, Ms. Rice suggested that the California Democrat had set back feminism by suggesting during the hearing that the childless Ms. Rice had paid no price in the Iraq war.

“I thought it was okay to be single,” Ms. Rice said. “I thought it was okay to not have children, and I thought you could still make good decisions on behalf of the country if you were single and didn’t have children.”

Women can rise to the highest ranks of American society without relying on millionaire husband's money or riding their politically powerful spouse's coattails, based upon their own hard work and and expertise. That is why I expect to see Dr. Rice in the White House one day.

Boxer, on the other hand, continues to defend her comments, proving she is an unprincipled bitch.

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