By radio I listened to the discourse between Sen. Barbara Boxer and Secretary Condoleezza Rice and honestly Boxer was hostile, attacking, and unhelpful towards addressing the Iraq war.

In reference to the plan to increase U.S. troop levels in Iraq, Boxer jabbed,

"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 price, as I understand it, within immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families."

Rice responded,

"I visit them. I know what they're going through. 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 ..."

Cutting Rice off Boxer said,

"Madam Secretary, please. 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."

So politically motivated and lacking in professionalism or respect.

Later Boxer defended herself for "speaking truth to power" and trying "to draw us together, and not apart." It was anything but drawing together. Boxer's purpose was to provoke.

And Condi later said, "I thought it was okay to be single. 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."

Come on Boxer, is the 1st 100 hrs of Democrats in Congressional power so precious as to foment bad blood? Don't make everyone's job harder.