Monday, January 27, 2025

The Not-So-Gentle Lady from Colorado

 
by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist

Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, a Republican (of course) from Colorado, has been in the news twice this week, neither time for doing the job she was elected to do.  Boebert, a former pistol-packin' waitress whose voters back home soured on her antics to the point that she had to shop around last year to find a different district in Colorado that would send her back to Congress, is still playing to the cameras, despite her political liabilities.  

On Tuesday of last week, just after Trump pardoned the trespassers, rioters, public defecators, and people who had physically attacked members of the Capitol Police on January 6, 2021, Boebert went before the press to once again decry what she saw as the mistreatment of those criminals - and to say that she would offer guided tours of the Capitol to the felons upon their release from confinement.  To her credit, Congresswoman Boebert at least stood by her her tragically mistaken belief that the people arrested had been little more than innocent tourists who were swept up in some covert government operation designed to embarrass MAGA bravehearts like herself.  Most Republicans - and especially Republican Senators - tried valiantly to not talk about the release of the people who injured and even brought about the deaths of members of the Capitol Police.   But Lauren likes to talk - plenty.

Two days later, on Thursday, Rep. Boebert had expanded her job duties from providing tours of the Capitol for criminals to monitoring the women's restrooms to make sure that Representative Sarah McBride, a Democrat from Delaware, did not avail herself of those facilities.  Boebert was on potty patrol when she thought she saw the transgendered Ms. McBride enter a ladies' restroom in the Capitol, something which would have gone against a decree from the diminutive Speaker Johnson (a.k.a. "Trump's Little Johnson"), a new House Rule written solely to keep Congresswoman McBride from using the bathroom of the gender with which she identifies.  Boebert reported incident to Capitol Security, only to find out later that she had misidentified the supposed rule-breaker.   Again to her credit, Boebert apologized to the person she had ratted out.

There are undoubtedly at least a few people in Colorado who voted to send Boebert to Congress so she could busy herself with legislating.  Perhaps by the end of this session, they, too, will have had enough of Rep. Boebert's political stunts, and poor Lauren will have to go in search of another district from which to stage her show.

Lauren, get yourself a record, something related to proposing and passing legislation in Congress (and not on vaping and groping at a public event), and do your job.  But if that is too much work, maybe you should call Ringling Brothers and see if they have any openings.

And while you're at it, don't forget to "Back the Blue!"

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