My Immediate Reaction

Unfortunately, a tense deadline kept me from listening to all of Dr. Rice's testimony, although I saw spots and I'm just sitting down now to read an early transcript.

But everything I saw made me ask just one compound question I've actually never asked myself before:

Has this woman only existed within two presidential administrations for the sole purpose of protecting and defending the Bushes? And if so, why in God's name was she put in charge of something that had such potential for damage when she did it badly?

This is a whole order of magnitude worse than I thought. This is gross incompetence and everything I heard and have now read implies that her only job is to protect Junior - the rest of us bloody be damned.