Rain on Condi and Powell's parade

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21 - If there is a Washington lesson here, it is don't put your Vette ahead of a vetting.

A 2005 silver-gray Corvette had just been delivered to Colin L. Powell when he got home from the office on Wednesday, his last day on the job as secretary of state. Or so he thought.

Moments later, Mr. Powell found out that he would be in office another week after Democrats delayed the vote on his successor, Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser. So there went his plans for spending his first days of freedom tooling around town in his new car, said Kenneth I. Duberstein, Ronald Reagan's last chief of staff and a friend of Mr. Powell.

The car was Mr. Powell's gift to himself for his four years in service to Mr. Bush, Mr. Duberstein added.
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I'm glad he thinks he was worth it. Actually after four years of service to Mr. Bush, I'd think he'd want knee surgery.

Ms. Rice, meanwhile, was left with a group of family and friends who had come to town for the president's inaugural, but also what they thought would be her swearing-in on Thursday afternoon.

Aw, too bad.

But then, a lot of us were disappointed that day.