Well, if you're California Senator and legendary dim bulb Barbara Boxer, you monopolize the one chance you have of serving your constituents, all of them, not just the ones who are as crazy as you are, by engaging in dialogue on Iraq with the two people that have spent considerable more energy and effort than you have on the Iraq issue, and who might know a thing or two more than you do.  But alas, Senator Boxer chose not to use her time in that fashion.

Instead, she talked down to General Petraeus, completely ignored Ambassador Ryan Crocker, insinuated that Petraeus was a liar, accused him of cherry-picking facts and figures while doing exactly the same thing herself, offered her own version of reality and ended without giving Petraeus the courtesy of responding to her diatribe.  Check out yourself the Barbara Boxer-Democrat school of open debate.



If there is a funny part about this, it's at the very end when she turns it back over to Chairman Joe Biden.  Now Biden is famous for monopolizing the time allotted to him during the Roberts and Alito Supreme Court confirmation hearings, falling so in love with the sound of his own voice that he simply ran out of time before he got around to asking a question.  In this case, however, even Biden, never at a loss for words, especially when there's a camera pointed in his general direction, didn't know quite what to say after the Boxer rant, and said meekly to General Petraeus maybe he might respond to Senator Boxer in writing.  So much for the honor and respect the Democrats are going out of their way to say they are paying to Petraeus and Crocker.  There was nothing honorable or respectful in the conduct of Boxer, and even Biden knew it.