Senator Boxer's comments to Secretary of State Rice about Rice being unqualified to conduct foreign relations because she is childless are childish; maybe junior high level. Boxer appears to have embraced Maureen Dowd's idea of Cindy Sheean's "moral authority." Boxer has explained that she was "Speaking truth to power." It seems to me that she is speaking non sequiters. Senators from both parties often come across as really stupid people when they question the Administration in hearings.