Where is Biden's piss and vinegar?

James Wolcott wonders where the troops that should be backing up Barbara Boxer are:

Why is Barbara Boxer out there all alone asking the tough questions about Condi Rice's snail trail of deceit and fearmongering? She has the audacity to act as if the Senate actually has some traditional advise-and-consent role to play and for her pains is caricatured as a shrieking harridan on Saturday Night Live and a witch on talk radio. Boxer was terrific today on CNN, refusing to back down and reiterating her questions and objections regarding Rice with emphatic clarity while Sen Lugar mumble-mumbled some pathetic excuse-making about how Rice didn't deliberately mislead the country re Iraq's WMDs, she just did the best she could under the circumstances. Look, Biden and the rest of you Democratic punk-asses--get behind Boxer or get lost. She shouldn't be up there on the parapet alone, not with this wrecking crew trying to gear us up for war on Iran.

Damn skippy. Remember Biden tearing into Ashcroft over Abu Ghraib? Where is that now? All he has done is suggest that Condi go and talk to the folks who are training the Iraqi troops in order to get a clearer picture of their numbers and training, but not before he rolls over on his back so she can scratch his tummy.

Kerry should get in there as well... I realize that he is concerned about sour grapes depictions and did in fact vote against her, but if he was willing to stand against them during the election, why not now?

C'mon folks... bring your balls to work next time.