Never mind Bush the Elder, where the HELL is Condoleeza Rice hiding? I thought she was the sh!t-hot expert on the Russians. This stuff (the North Pole thing, bomber flights near our airspace, etc.) has been going on for months now, yet I've seen no quotes from her, no blurbs about her advising the President, nothing at all.
My guess is she didn;t realize how really inept her boss is until she started interfacing with him on a higher level.
Now, she is probably keeping as low a profile as possible as to reduce the taint on her future career.
Or maybe she was never that bright to start with.