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Barbara Boxer, Bully: The California senator twists herself into knots to oppose Bush nominees.
City Journal ^ | June 9, 2005 | Katherine Ernst

Posted on 06/09/2005 7:01:40 PM PDT by quidnunc

Some things in the United States Senate seem so rote that they’re not worth much further analysis. Hillary Clinton will make (calculating) “moderate” maneuvers, John McCain will be feisty about something (campaign finance reform, steroids in baseball, Tom Cruise’s new faux relationship), and Barbara Boxer will launch some sort of fatwa on a Bush administration nominee up for confirmation.

Yet while it’s not exactly news that a Marin County Über-lib would oppose a conservative nominee, Boxer somehow manages to turn her partisan misgivings into the kind of spectacles that make the op-ed pages of the Los Angeles Times swoon. John Ashcroft knows the drill and so does Condoleezza Rice (indeed, Boxer’s attacks on Rice this year were so over-the-top that Saturday Night Live immortalized her in a sketch: “An eruption of lies! Dr. Condo-lies-a-lies-a-lot!”).

Add Janice Rogers Brown to the list of Boxer’s targets. The conservative African-American judge, confirmed to the D.C. Court of appeals yesterday, has had to endure the verbal wrath of the Smurf-sized senator over the past few weeks with nary an opportunity for an edgewise word (Boxer has a penchant for getting really riled up over black conservative nominees). Ironically, Boxer’s treatment of Brown is strikingly similar to what she chastised John Ashcroft for doing to another judge — the explanation for her enthusiastic “nay” vote during Ashcroft’s 2001 attorney general confirmation hearing.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 109th; boxer; obstructionistdems; yentafrombrooklyn
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1 posted on 06/09/2005 7:01:40 PM PDT by quidnunc
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To: quidnunc

Boxer is a bitter old hag!


2 posted on 06/09/2005 7:02:43 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (I don*t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. His name is Jesus Christ....)
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To: quidnunc

she has to be one of the phoniest people alive.

her husband makes millions off of california's workers' comp.


3 posted on 06/09/2005 7:03:14 PM PDT by ken21 (if you didn't see it on tv, then it didn't happen. /s)
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To: ken21

Her lawyer husband submitted donations to her reelection campaign using slightly altered variations of his name to circumvent single doner laws. The scanned pdf files of these contribution forms can be found on the internet with a little googling. They are crooks, plain and simple.


4 posted on 06/09/2005 7:13:21 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: quidnunc

I moved to Marin almost 20 years ago from CT, it took me about 2 weeks to figure out the average resident out here is a moron...Boxer doesn't have the intellectual firepower to punch her way out of a wet paper bag, she represents these idiots perfectly....


5 posted on 06/09/2005 7:14:29 PM PDT by scott says
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To: quidnunc
this woman is an embarrassment to the state and the epitome of what ails the federal gov't.
6 posted on 06/09/2005 7:17:20 PM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: scott says

You nailed it then. Plus, Boxer is just so stupid.
What is it with these "filthy" rich Liberals yapping and screaming "Power to The People!". Ugh.


7 posted on 06/09/2005 7:18:23 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9-11!)
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To: NRA2BFree

She's the only one I know that can wear ugly couch material and embarass the couch.


8 posted on 06/09/2005 7:22:05 PM PDT by JesseJane (2008 is TOO Late.. Toss the RINOS in 2006.. remember the Ratpack 7.)
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To: quidnunc

Me think babs should marry Howard Dean. What a lovely pair they would make.


9 posted on 06/09/2005 7:22:46 PM PDT by conshack ((Illegal immigration is the #1 threat to Homeland Security))
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To: JesseJane

Check your spelling please! couch = crotch!!


10 posted on 06/09/2005 7:27:27 PM PDT by TaMoDee
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To: NRA2BFree
"Boxer is a bitter old hag!

Let me add to that..

Boxer is an atrocious,disgusting,foul,horrid,nasty,nauseating,offensive,repellent,repulsive,revolting,sickening,unwholesome,vile, bitter old hag.

And ugly as sin.

there that is better! :)

11 posted on 06/09/2005 7:29:28 PM PDT by A message
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To: conshack

I call Barbara Boxer "The Wicked Witch of the West".
She's just mad because a house fell on her sister.


12 posted on 06/09/2005 7:30:51 PM PDT by batmast
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To: quidnunc

Barbara Boxer needs to be in the senate. It very important that extremely stupid women have someone to represent them. LOL!


13 posted on 06/09/2005 7:30:54 PM PDT by buckeyesrule (God bless Condi Rice!)
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To: quidnunc
I like some of the wording Ernst uses, and would like to see more of it.

Here is some of my own: Boxer is a carpetbagging, babykilling, check kiting, al Queda kissing communist traitor. I long for the day when she is convicted for her crimes.

14 posted on 06/09/2005 7:31:48 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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To: quidnunc
"John McCain will be feisty about something (campaign finance reform, steroids in baseball,...

I have not been following the 'steroids in baseball' hearings and proposed legislation. I am sure thet John McLame will ensure that all the proposed substance testing will also apply to all the Members of Congress, their staffs, and the Judiciary! NOT!
15 posted on 06/09/2005 7:38:23 PM PDT by leprechaun9
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To: scott says

Move over to the east side of CA and you will see a difference in the attitude of most people. We are not like the coastal dewellers( they can't stand heat over 80 degrees, makes them faint for one), most of us are conservative to the core.


16 posted on 06/09/2005 7:39:17 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

Most of my best friends I've met since living in Ca., live in Modesto and Fresno. I love the attitude of the people who live in the valley.


17 posted on 06/09/2005 7:43:43 PM PDT by A message
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To: calex59
I know you are right..most of the state ( geographically) is conservative, its the urban areas that are "liberal",its taken me years to build a business so I'm not ready to move.Sometimes I realize that I must be crazy putting up with these lunatics in the Bay Area, most of them are just so clueless, living in a parallel universe or something!
18 posted on 06/09/2005 7:47:58 PM PDT by scott says
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To: quidnunc
I used to be politically naive enough to think Box-of-Rox must be a disgrace to her party,along the lines of Ted K. Imagine that.

She's nothing of the sort.She's completely in line with her party.Nothing she says or does differs with the DNC.

The whole bunch are a left wing fringe group propped up by the leftist media and hate America moneymen.

Plus the old fools who still think Roosevelt is president.

19 posted on 06/09/2005 7:57:27 PM PDT by smoothsailing (Qui Nhon Turtle Co.)
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To: smoothsailing; Rabid Dog

Isn't Lodi in Marin County...relatives of Barbara's?


20 posted on 06/09/2005 8:08:47 PM PDT by Snapping Turtle (Snap on and don't let go!)
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