Political Fallout Over Sen. Boxer’s Questions

At the conclusion of her commentary on Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) (“Boxer’s Spine Gets Her Cut Off at the Knees,� Jan. 27), Margaret Carlson says: “In Washington, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Rice sail on, and everybody’s mad at Barbara Boxer.�

Au contraire, Margaret; not everyone. That gutsy little lady representing us is the only senator with the backbone and courage to stand up and vote against certifying the almost certainly fraudulent Nov. 2 presidential election (where were you, Dianne Feinstein?), and to take on the lies and evasions of Condoleezza Rice, who should not be anyone’s secretary of State.

I am extremely proud to be a constituent of Sen. Boxer, and I am counting on her (apparently there are not too many Democrats willing to be counted) to continue to speak the truth and oppose the scary, anti-values agenda being spouted by the right wing. If it takes a filibuster to prevent these ugly legislative efforts from being enacted, I hope that she will be able to find enough other voices to join hers.

Carry on, Barbara; plenty of Californians are in your corner.

Linda Winters

Culver City

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Like Carlson, I watched with confusion as Boxer’s colleagues attacked her for asking the questions we should have been asking all along. I am astonished in one sense, and not at all surprised in another, to hear GOP tongues on the news shows talking about “disloyalty� and even “treason� with respect to questioning the Bush administration’s actions. Why wasn’t someone questioning their loyalty during the Clinton administration?

James Fox-Davis

Reseda

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It’s exactly Boxer’s forthrightness that is making her my hero. And it’s the Democratic Party’s lack of passion for the truth that has lost them my support. I will simply follow the truth-tellers, whoever they are.

Edward Armendarez

West Hollywood