Believe it or not, there’s been worse.
She’s only one of the worst, and not even at the bottom of the list.
That dishonor probably goes to Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery monster from South Carolina who nearly killed Massachusetts Sen. Charles Sumner on the Senate floor by beating him with a cane.
(Brooks didn’t live long enough to fight for the South in the Civil War; he died in 1857 at age 37 from croup, a disease with some similarities to Covid-19; contemporary reports said, “He died a horrid death, and suffered intensely. He endeavored to tear his own throat open to get breath.” Some might call it God’s retribution for being such a bad man.)
She’s not even the worst member of the current Congress; that dishonor probably goes to either Paul Gosar (R-AZ) or Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), both of whom have been stripped of committee assignments for violent rhetoric. On a spectrum, there’s Brooks, Gosar and Greene, and Boebert. Probably a bunch of people — past and maybe present — could be inserted at various places between those names, but I’m not going to spend time researching that. This is the here and now.
But make no mistake, Boebert is a badass, and not in a good way. She’s a vicious Islamophobe who’s repeatedly gone after Muslim members of Congress in a particularly vicious way, by falsely labeling them as terrorists. (See story here.) One of her targets, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), worries that Boebert’s anti-Muslim rants might instigate violence.
Boebert hails from Rifle, pop. 10,000, a rodeo town in western Colorado that, as far as I can make out, doesn’t have an economy. She ran a restaurant there where customers where encouraged to brandish guns.
Although a Democrat is unlikely to get elected in her district, she has a credible GOP primary opponent in 2022 (see story here), and maybe voters there will have enough sense to retire her from Congress and send her back to managing her restaurant.
Congress is a serious institution, and she’s an unserious person who’s way out of her league there. Boebert, who also has a history of being arrested for ignoring court summonses (details here), is better suited to yelling as a member of a Trump mob (photo).
Who in your audience is actually going to vote in that primary or in that Congressional race? Other than making local Democrats happy and pointing out most democrats from Washington state in the house will return to Washington unless they are beaten in the Primary by another Democrat. Maybe one or two will retire giving Washington Republicans a slim chance of taking a seat.
In any case I can only vote for one Representative in Congress and every couple of years a Senator, but not always. The vast majority of Senators and Representatives I don’t vote for. They are put in office by the other, the ignorant people of 49 other states who rightfully should tell me and you it is not any of your business who we put into Congress. It is not any of our business who you put into Congress there in Washington states you ignorant ingrates. You may change that by moving to some other great state and voting in those elections leaving ours behind you.
It is one thing that this article is blatently bias. It is worse is it accomplishes nothing and creates unreasonable expectations and regurgitates Democratic talking points and rhetoric. The audience expects respect and the editor and operator of the blog to speak to us of our concerns and of who we can vote for, not theses far away political hacks.
You’re confusing the role of blog editor with that of your elected representatives. Blogs don’t have to cater to your concerns. And while this blog is based in Seattle, it covers national issues. You seem to be saying if people elsewhere elect unsuitable people to Congress, it’s nobody else’s business. Are we a United States of America or not? I’ve always thought we’re all in this together.