On the floor of the Senate Tuesday, Democratic lawmakers were unusually harsh in their criticism for the Bush administration’s war plans in Iraq and particularly Secretary of State nominee Condoleeza Rice. Senator Robert Byrd said “Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people.” Senator Mark Dayton of Minnesota said “I really don’t like being lied to repeatedly, flagrantly, intentionally. It’s wrong; it’s undemocratic; it’s un-American; and it’s very dangerous.”