So I wonder why we are starting this new Congress with a protracted debate about a foregone conclusion… . I can only conclude we are doing this for no other reason than lingering bitterness at the outcome of the elections… . We all have varying policy views, but the President, in my view, has a clear right to put in place the team he believed would serve him best.
— Senator John McCain, in 2005, defending George W. Bush’s nomination of Condoleeza Rice for Secretary of State despite Rice’s repeated, false assertions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
(via dendroica)
