There are plenty of editorials to choose from this morning to describe Condoleezza Rice’s Today’s In his quick piece yesterday, political analyst As to our Maximum Leader’s whereabouts on the day of the 9\/11 attacks, Fineman <\/P> Which brings us to this morning’s Times How about we retire him to his ranch permanently, where he can ride around in his pickup Postscript:<\/B><\/B> Wading in the Velvet Sea blogger Ryan McGee says he put on There are plenty of editorials to choose from this morning to describe Condoleezza Rice’s testimony at yesterday’s 9\/11 hearing. (Here’s the complete transcript.) We made our snap judgment about the Condi context yesterday while the hearing was still in progress: “She may well be remembered as Condoleezza (“Cover Your Ass”) Rice.” Today’s New York Times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-a0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntestimony at yesterday’s 9\/11 hearing. (Here’s the
\nwhile the hearing was still in progress: “She may well be remembered as Condoleezza (“Cover
\nYour Ass”) Rice.”<\/P>
\n
\nunconvincing when she tried to portray Al Qaeda as anything approaching a top concern for the
\nWhite House.” The
\n“unconvincing,” notes that she “didn’t add much to the administration’s previous explanations,”
\nremarks that she was “both contradictory and implausible” and deplores the fact that Rice could
\nnot accept the idea that “mistakes were made and more could have been done. It’s a shame that
\nPresident Bush and his top national security aide haven’t offered that honest accounting.”<\/P>
\n
\nwrote<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A> in Newsweek: “Stylistically and tactically she was serviceable.”
\nHe too pointed out Rice’s unwillingness to take responsibility: “Asked at the hearing why she
\nhadn’t pressed the FBI more closely about what it knew, or didn’t know, about domestic terrorist
\nthreats, Rice acted as though the question was an odd one: it wasn’t her job.” <\/P>
\n
\nwrites:<\/P>
\n
\nRemember the picture of the president in the classroom, being told of the
\nattack by chief of staff Andy Card? The American people thought they were seeing a man
\nsuddenly thrust into a grave challenge no one could have anticipated. That won him enormous
\nsympathy and patience from the voters. But what if he was literally on vacation\u2014at the ranch in
\nCrawford\u2014when he should have been making sure that someone was ringing alarm bells
\nthroughout the bureaucracy?<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
\n
\n
\nfearless Leader’s whereabouts yesterday: “The president called Ms. Rice from his pickup truck on
\nthe ranch to tell her she had done a great job before the panel. It doesn’t get more surreal than
\nthat. Mr. President, there’s a war on. You might consider hopping a plane to Washington.”<\/P>
\n
\ntruck to his heart’s content?<\/P>
\n
\nhis “investigative hat (the one without the beer straws in it) and waded through the actual
\ntestimony transcripts.” His
\ncontext.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"