The Meter -- Or My Name Ain't Nathan Arizona!

Another slow news day. Martin Luther King honored, L.A. fake blowed up on 24 (nice knowing you guys), L.A. real blowed up by Sacha Baron Cohen (ah, the nice, wholesome, Golden Globes... how, oh how, will they recover). But the show must go on!

[P.S.: other Coen Brothers quotes will feature here from time to time. You don't like it? Tough.]

George W. Bush: 1. My God. No matter what Congress does, he will do exactly what he wants:

Congress cannot reverse last week's decision to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, President Bush said in an interview intended to rally popular support for his plan.

"Frankly, that's not their responsibility," Bush said in an interview on the CBS News program "60 Minutes," which aired Sunday.

That's not their responsibility. So only he, in his own mind at least, has the power to stop this thing. Unchecked power sucks, man.

Barbara Boxer: 1. Back in the day, when I lived in California, I actually voted for her. Too bad, then, that she turns out to be a blowhard:

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, took the opportunity to point out that Rice, with no children of her own, will not feel the loss of a son or daughter in Iraq.

"Who pays the price?" Boxer asked Rice. "I'm not going to pay a personal price. My kids are too old and my grandchild is too young. You're not going to pay a personal price, as I understand it, with an immediate family. So who pays the price? The American military and their families ... not me, not you."

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is the end of the feminist movement. A liberated woman who has no kids, and also happens to be a Republican, is accused by a social liberal of not knowing the price of policy because she doesn't have kids.

With all due respect, Sen. Boxer: STFU.

(Let us not let Condi off the hook just yet. It's not that she doesn't know the cost of war because she doesn't have children. The problem with her is that she knows the price, knows it outstrips the benefits, and does not correct course.)