Thursday, January 06, 2005
Boxer Boxes Herself In
So I hear on the news this morning that Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Marin County) is joining Rep. John Conyers (D-Motown) in challenging the electoral college's election of G.W. Bush for a second term.
The challenge is nothing but showboating, and will have no effect on the election. Outside of fulfilling the need of some (most? all?) politicians to hear themselves talk, the only effect I can see from this is that it drastically increases the probability that sometime during this Presidential term, the administration will allow a situation to develop that will cause Sen. Boxer to make herself look like more of an idiot than she actually is. (This will be difficult, because I am sure that my potted geranium would give Sen. Boxer a run in a comparative IQ test.)
Sen. Boxer purports to belong to a party that is always crying about the dearth of bipartisanship in Congress and bemoaning the "mean spiritedness" of the Republicans. If this is an example of Democratic "bipartisanship" and "noble-mindedness," I guess their dictionary must be different from mine. Perhaps Sen. Boxer hopes to take up the mantle of that famous bipartisan hero, Sen. Daschle.
My only hope is that Sen. Boxer's hyperpartisanship will not compound California's already massive problems. Sen. Feinstein, with whom I rarely agree but who at least regularly demonstrates common sense, will have her hands full repairing the damage her colleague has done.
The challenge is nothing but showboating, and will have no effect on the election. Outside of fulfilling the need of some (most? all?) politicians to hear themselves talk, the only effect I can see from this is that it drastically increases the probability that sometime during this Presidential term, the administration will allow a situation to develop that will cause Sen. Boxer to make herself look like more of an idiot than she actually is. (This will be difficult, because I am sure that my potted geranium would give Sen. Boxer a run in a comparative IQ test.)
Sen. Boxer purports to belong to a party that is always crying about the dearth of bipartisanship in Congress and bemoaning the "mean spiritedness" of the Republicans. If this is an example of Democratic "bipartisanship" and "noble-mindedness," I guess their dictionary must be different from mine. Perhaps Sen. Boxer hopes to take up the mantle of that famous bipartisan hero, Sen. Daschle.
My only hope is that Sen. Boxer's hyperpartisanship will not compound California's already massive problems. Sen. Feinstein, with whom I rarely agree but who at least regularly demonstrates common sense, will have her hands full repairing the damage her colleague has done.
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