Barbara Boxer left “shaking and trembling” after Bob Corker criticized John Kerry and Barack Obama over ISIS

Earlier today Secretary of State John Kerry testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and according to this article he got into a heated debate with Bob Corker, who questioned his judgement on ISIS.

  Here is part of what Bob Corker had to say:

“I want to say as I said personally, we have three senators, president, vice president, secretary of state, that are exercising terrible judgment right now. And to say that you’re going to do this regardless of what we say, you’re not going to ask for buy-in by the United States Senate or House of Representatives on behalf of the American people in a conflict that’s going to be multiyear. Some people say a decade. Taking us into another country with a different enemy, is exercising the worst judgment possible.”

  This criticism of judgement left Barbara Boxer quite upset, she had the following to say:

“I think it is shocking, and a sad state of affairs that we heard just now such angry comments aimed at you, Mr. secretary and through you at our president, instead of at ISIS — a savage group who decapitated two Americans and have warned, and I quote, that ‘their thirst for more american blood is right out there.’

“I think it’s shocking,” she continued as she slammed her paper on the table. “I’m actually shaking and trembling.

  She was left “shaking and trembling” because Bob Corker used John Kerry to attack the president. How dare he! Nobody on the left would ever do such a thing in front of the Congress for political reasons, right?

  Well, except for when Dick Durbin used the troops to attack the Bush regime. (This was not during a committee hearing but still took place on the Senate floor) Here is part of what he had to say in 2005:

“If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime — Pol Pot or others — that had no concern for human beings,” Durbin said. “Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners.”

  He eventually apologized for his remarks but not after doubling down:

“This administration should apologize to the American people for abandoning the Geneva Conventions and authorizing torture techniques that put our troops at risk and make Americans less secure,”

  Much like what Barbara Boxer accused Bob Corker of doing, this statement shows that Dick Durbin was using the troops to attack the Bush regime. If Barbara Boxer is consistent we would find that she condemned Dick Durbin’s words as misplaced anger, she would have attacked him for aiming his comments at the troops and at the president instead of at the terrorists.

  Yet what did Barbara Boxer have to say to Dick Durbin? I googled it and could not find a damn thing.

  I believe this would be called selective outrage.