It is a good thing that the nutcase that appeared today, didn’t put her bloody hands on Condi. She might have gotten put into a head lock or got a Kung Fu throw.

Condi works out!

dolphy, I also dread Rice-A-Phoney’s ability to stall for time with b.s. digressions and finely minced crapola. The way around that would be for any well-prepared, smart Congresscritter to phrase their questions so that Rice’s ONLY options in responding would be one of the following, single word responses only. And limit her to ONLY one word in response to each question. Here’s the list of six acceptable Condi responses:
yes
no
before
after
more than
less than

Single word responses work well in a variety of diagnostic situations — but policy types hate and fear them, due to their aversion to ever being pinned down. Condi and the WH would hate it, but the Dems might get somewhere.

execrable, the problem with posing an ’open ended’ question to Rice is that it appears those are her favorites. They give her far more latitude to waste time and allow her to use her own talking points. In that sense, any Dem who pitches her one of those softballs is a defeatest who’d be smarter to stay home and watch old ’I Love Lucy’ reruns.

Her effectiveness as National Security Advisor and Secretary of State aside, she may be one of the advisors standing in the way between 70 million Iranians and the bunker buster bombs Bush and Cheney want to drop to ignite WWIII.

The hearing will examine unanswered questions regarding the performance of the State Department on several significant issues relating to the Iraq war

Don’t get too excited. Rice is famous for her talent at answering a question at such length as to preclude any possiblity, due to the resulting time constraints, of being asked another. Even if the Dems managed to grow spines, they’ll still be reduced to silent spectators at their own show.