Barbara Boxer makes list of "Top 10 Dumbest in Congress"....
We SHOULD BE the biggest fans of Barbara Boxer. She is one of the top 2 or 3 "liberal" Democrats in the Senate, which is to say an advocate of the policies, built up over 100 years, that have created America's middle class, and the nation, economy, lifestyle, and society that we take for granted today. As opposed to the $200 PER MONTH SUBSISTENCE WAGES that OVER HALF of all South Americans survive on today, for example. As for example the SUBSISTENCE WAGES that MILLIONS of Americans were HAPPY to survive on during the Great Depression, for example. (Our modern American history books even whitewash, to a degree, the severity of the Great Depression, when millions of families flirted with STARVATION. Including meatless meals for weeks at a time, and the gift of a single orange being considered a good Christmas present.)
Barbara Boxer has earned MORE VOTES than any other non-presidential candidate in US history if only because California is such a huge state. (The state is, taken alone, is the world's 7th largest economy.) And she is consistently on the 'right' - as in "LIBERAL" or 'left' - side of almost all the important issues - raising minimum wage, defending social security, making health care and prescription drugs more affordable, opposing the Bush administration's awful leadership of the Iraq war, etc.
Senator Boxer WAS going to BUCK the Senate Democrat's BETRAYAL of African-American and Florida voters DISENFRANCHISED when the Black Congressional Caucus pleaded and demanded a CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION into Republican vote fraud and voter disenfranchisement in Florida in the 2000 election and recount debacle, BUT NOT ONE SENATE DEMOCRAT WOULD SIGN ON to the request, in a stupid, misguided, cowardly attempt to demonstrate "BIPARTISANSHIP" with the Bush radical Right-Wing Republicans.. But she did NOT sign on to the Black Congressional Caucus investigation petition - she FOLLOWED the "leadership" of the DC 'leadership' and DLC agenda, and, LIKE ALL THE OTHER Democrat Senators, ABANDONED those thousands of Florida voters ROBBED OF THEIR VOTES by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and the Florida Republican machine in 2000.
Since then, Barbara Boxer hasn't improved much at providing REPRESENTATIVE LEADERSHIP to CONFRONT the Bush-Rove-Rethuglican ONE PARTY RULE monopoly on power.
But she HAS found time to write... a novel! Based on love, romance, and even a hint of sex, we understand.
Well, we regret having to make readers suffer through the above bashing of Ms. Boxer. We really wish that we were Senator Boxer's greatest champions and fans, and that she were out there every day CONFRONTING and LEADING THE FIGHT against the Bush-Rove government of lies and intimidation, instead of writing novels! At least her inclusion in "The Top 10 Dumbest Congressmen (and women)" makes for entertaining reading....
America's Dumbest Congressmen
CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES The 109th Congress busy doing nothing
Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill
By Holly Martins
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php
Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as two centuries ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation's legislators as a "circus of rogues and fools." But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart.
Despite a notoriously compliant president and Republican majorities in both houses, they've spent over 600 days in session without conducting a shred of productive business, which is not to say they've just sat around. As the war in Iraq raged out of control, they futilely postured over an unconstitutional flag-burning amendment that was clearly destined to go up in flames. They rallied around the brain-dead Terry Schiavo after the Senate majority leader, watching her on television, claimed to detect signs of life. And their hijinks culminated this month with l'affaire Mark Foley, which raised the question of just who a guy needs to blow on the Hill to get the attention of the brain-dead House leadership.
But in a notably dumb year, perhaps the dumbest move came from Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, who sponsored a bill seeking $20 million in taxpayer money for a party to celebrate America's victory in Iraq. Not long ago such flagrant obtuseness might have ensured the senator a place on our annual list of America's Dumbest Congressmen. Alas, given this year's stiff competition, he didn't even make runner-up.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Boxer is a limousine liberal running a few gallons short of a full tank. After convening a Democratic press event at a gas station to publicize high oil prices and accuse Bush and Cheney of being too cozy with the oil industry, California's junior senator "hopped into a waiting Chrysler (18 MPG)," noted the Washington Post, "even though her Senate office was only a block away."
Then there are Bab's manglings of diction and logic, such as this chestnut: "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God I'm still alive.' But of course those who died, their lives will never be the same again." Boxer's most egregious crimes against language are on florid display in her self-infatuated novel A Time to Run, which features a California senator embarking on a bold, maverick crusade to protect children from violence. One passage describes "a magical time when the three of them caught the rainbow, found the pot of gold beneath it, and managed to forget how easily and swiftly that fairy gold could slip away." And then there's the ghastly way Boxer envisions a lustful courtship: "Her skirt was very short, and Josh found himself mesmerized by her perfectly shaped, silken legs with kneecaps that reminded him of golden apples—he couldn't remember having been captivated by kneecaps before—and her lustrous thighs."
Barbara Boxer has earned MORE VOTES than any other non-presidential candidate in US history if only because California is such a huge state. (The state is, taken alone, is the world's 7th largest economy.) And she is consistently on the 'right' - as in "LIBERAL" or 'left' - side of almost all the important issues - raising minimum wage, defending social security, making health care and prescription drugs more affordable, opposing the Bush administration's awful leadership of the Iraq war, etc.
Senator Boxer WAS going to BUCK the Senate Democrat's BETRAYAL of African-American and Florida voters DISENFRANCHISED when the Black Congressional Caucus pleaded and demanded a CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION into Republican vote fraud and voter disenfranchisement in Florida in the 2000 election and recount debacle, BUT NOT ONE SENATE DEMOCRAT WOULD SIGN ON to the request, in a stupid, misguided, cowardly attempt to demonstrate "BIPARTISANSHIP" with the Bush radical Right-Wing Republicans.. But she did NOT sign on to the Black Congressional Caucus investigation petition - she FOLLOWED the "leadership" of the DC 'leadership' and DLC agenda, and, LIKE ALL THE OTHER Democrat Senators, ABANDONED those thousands of Florida voters ROBBED OF THEIR VOTES by Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris, and the Florida Republican machine in 2000.
Since then, Barbara Boxer hasn't improved much at providing REPRESENTATIVE LEADERSHIP to CONFRONT the Bush-Rove-Rethuglican ONE PARTY RULE monopoly on power.
But she HAS found time to write... a novel! Based on love, romance, and even a hint of sex, we understand.
Well, we regret having to make readers suffer through the above bashing of Ms. Boxer. We really wish that we were Senator Boxer's greatest champions and fans, and that she were out there every day CONFRONTING and LEADING THE FIGHT against the Bush-Rove government of lies and intimidation, instead of writing novels! At least her inclusion in "The Top 10 Dumbest Congressmen (and women)" makes for entertaining reading....
America's Dumbest Congressmen
CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES The 109th Congress busy doing nothing
Radar ranks the 10 biggest fools on the Hill
By Holly Martins
http://www.radaronline.com/features/2006/10/americas_dumbest_congressmen_a_radar_special_report.php
Congress, as any CSPAN viewer can attest, has never been a bastion of intelligence. As far back as two centuries ago, Samuel Johnson was demeaning the nation's legislators as a "circus of rogues and fools." But when it comes to sheer stupidity, the men and women of the 109th have distinguished themselves as a breed apart.
Despite a notoriously compliant president and Republican majorities in both houses, they've spent over 600 days in session without conducting a shred of productive business, which is not to say they've just sat around. As the war in Iraq raged out of control, they futilely postured over an unconstitutional flag-burning amendment that was clearly destined to go up in flames. They rallied around the brain-dead Terry Schiavo after the Senate majority leader, watching her on television, claimed to detect signs of life. And their hijinks culminated this month with l'affaire Mark Foley, which raised the question of just who a guy needs to blow on the Hill to get the attention of the brain-dead House leadership.
But in a notably dumb year, perhaps the dumbest move came from Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell, who sponsored a bill seeking $20 million in taxpayer money for a party to celebrate America's victory in Iraq. Not long ago such flagrant obtuseness might have ensured the senator a place on our annual list of America's Dumbest Congressmen. Alas, given this year's stiff competition, he didn't even make runner-up.
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Boxer is a limousine liberal running a few gallons short of a full tank. After convening a Democratic press event at a gas station to publicize high oil prices and accuse Bush and Cheney of being too cozy with the oil industry, California's junior senator "hopped into a waiting Chrysler (18 MPG)," noted the Washington Post, "even though her Senate office was only a block away."
Then there are Bab's manglings of diction and logic, such as this chestnut: "Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God I'm still alive.' But of course those who died, their lives will never be the same again." Boxer's most egregious crimes against language are on florid display in her self-infatuated novel A Time to Run, which features a California senator embarking on a bold, maverick crusade to protect children from violence. One passage describes "a magical time when the three of them caught the rainbow, found the pot of gold beneath it, and managed to forget how easily and swiftly that fairy gold could slip away." And then there's the ghastly way Boxer envisions a lustful courtship: "Her skirt was very short, and Josh found himself mesmerized by her perfectly shaped, silken legs with kneecaps that reminded him of golden apples—he couldn't remember having been captivated by kneecaps before—and her lustrous thighs."
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