Welcome back everyone. I hope you all had a safe and happy Thanksgiving. I'm back at school now on the downhill run for the semester. Finals start in less than 3 weeks and it'll be Christmas before we all know it.
It is now very well known that Susan Rice, United States Ambassador to the U.N., is one of the leading candidates to replace outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Rice is deeply involved in the scandal surrounding the Benghazi terrorist attacks on September 11th and this makes her a very dicey choice for the position. Senate Republicans have solid reasons to be deeply concerned about her appointment and right now they are doing their jobs. The Senate and the American people have the right to know just what happening in Benghazi two and half months ago and until Rice can be straight with us, she has no business being confirmed to be the next Secretary of State, or to be doing her current job for that matter.
Unfortunately, a vast majority of Liberal Democrats, in the government, in the general public and, sadly, even in the media, refuse to see it this way. People in this camp are already back on the war path trying to play up sympathy for Rice, claiming that the "mean, old, angry white men" in the GOP are only going after Rice because she is a woman.
Right along with this, they also bring up how women still comprise less than 20 percent of Congress. DNC Chairperson Debbie Schultz has also been hellbent on this path again recently, claiming the GOP has gotten "more white" while trumpeting that she has helped bring a "majority minority" to the Democratic side of the House for the new Congress.
We are at a point now where even if Rice doesn't get the official nomination for Secretary of State, meaning it would instead most likely fall to Sen. John Kerry, Liberals everywhere will scream that it is because of gender and, in Rice's case, also race-based discrimination. Even if Obama nominates Kerry for the post, it will still somehow be blamed on the GOP and the media won't be rushing out there to discredit such a frivolous claim.
Has anyone on the left ever even considered the idea that the reason there aren't a lot of women in Congress or in high positions of government leadership is simply because they simply aren't the best candidates for the job? That the electorate votes for the best candidate for the job, male or female? I know that's how I vote. And guess what, Ms. Schultz? On election day I favored the FEMALE Republican in my home district. Too bad she lost to a WHITE MALE Democrat in a race that bordered on a landslide. I wonder how that race sits with Ms. Schultz. I'd love to see her explain it.
I'd also love to see her trumpet her "majority minority" with an incoming Maryland Congressional Delegation that includes 9 Democrats (of 10 total seats), in which there are just two women (Sen. Barbara Mikulski and Rep. Donna Edwards) and just two blacks (Edwards and Rep. Elijah Cummings). The other six are "old, white men", just the type Schultz routinely likes to paint as the evil enemy.
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