Senator Don’t Call Me Ma’am is in trouble
Maybe, finally, the grating arrogance of Babs Boxer is getting on Californians’ nerves.
For the second straight month the three-term senator is unable to break the 50% mark against any potential Republican opponents, the historical measuring mark of vulnerability for an incumbent nine months before an election.
For a Democrat in a Democrat state that gave Barack Obama 61% of its votes in 2008 (and still likes him more than many other places) to be mired in the mid-40′s is a sign of real trouble. This is especially so given the fact that disgruntled voters gave Democrats control of the House, Senate and White House in 2008, expecting something to….
…happen beyond another congressional payraise. Voters appear to be looking at a the stubborn ineffectiveness of the much-vaunted economic stimulation bill, continued high unemployment and waning Obama approval. It’s not like they don’t know Boxer after all her years in the state’s public life. To help with the warmth of money, Boxer has Al Gore’s headline help fundraising.
Yes, sure, incumbents retain huge powers and money advantages over challengers and it’s a long time until November, when the five-term ex-representative Boxer will turn 70. But nationally, indications are growing that 2010 could be a tidal wave election beyond the usual midterm swing with voters believing in a different kind of change to believe in.
Is it possible they could dump out a Democrat even in California?
Yes, you can!
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Noticed that DeVore is competitive.
Takes away a reason for not choosing the best candidate in the GOP primary, that he is unelectable.
But even Demon Sheep lady would be an improvement over Boxer. Just not as big an improvement as DeVore would be.
Maybe babs can get this bho out to CA to help with her re-election! He has been doing a bang up job with others he has tried to help. I can’t believe this bho has the nerve to show up in Las Vegas to help dingy after the way this bho has bad mouthed NV.
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DeVore is only “unelectable” if the only help he expects is from the GOP. He WILL win after we Tea Party people rally for him. I’m just waiting for the Palin/McCain/Armey endorsement for Fiorina. That will really send the “new” Palin-infused RNC reeling.
This time next year she can say “Please, I’ve worked very hard for the title of “Former Senator.”"
Let it be so!
Is it possible they could dump out a Democrat even in California?
Yes. It happened to Gov Davis, and it could happen to Sen Boxer.
There’s always a career in midget wrestling….
Well it’s not mine!
ANYBODY other than Cap & Tax climate leftie Babs Boxer will certainly be better.
There’s that hope and change Obama was talking about.
She looks like Margaret Hamilton after Judy Garland hit her in the face with that bucket of water.
All I want to see from these anti-American Marxists is ‘bos and ‘hos as they run down the hill to the cliff.
heh
Here’s hoping she’ll join her Democrat cohorts Dodd, Bayh and Mikulski in announcing she won’t run for reelection…
You know, Glenn Beck made an excellent point on his show recently.
Back in 1934 (I think that was the year), Dems were in power and people were ticked off. Everyone thought that the GOP was going to have a stellar year. However, the dems had an Ace up their sleeve. They took left over New Deal money, and funneled it to the districts of vulnerable dems in the final 2 weeks of the election. The Dems ended up gaining seats in both the House and Senate.
Flash forward to 2010. The porkulous money is only partially spent. What do you want to bet that the rest of the money gets spent right before these elections. Even Barney Frank was quoted as saying that the most “benefit” will be seen right around the mid-term elections.
Pecze – IIRC even given the money “spent” so far, 82% of it went to Dem districts, or the fictional districts that help Dems.
It is very annoying to know that people like this will retire with a a huge golden parachute paid for by the American working man and woman. No repercussions whatsoever for contributing directly to the collapse of her country. And if that is not galling enough, she will make even more money in speaking fees paid for by state and federally (taxpayer) funded colleges and universities.
Yes, elections have consequences as the annoying cliche goes. But consequences are also followed by elections, a point Senator Boxer and many of her Dem colleagues have chosen to ignore (do they know something we don’t?). Whether 2010 will be 1994 all over again is impossible to say. As I recall 1994 led to considerable disappointment and the dangers to the Republic are far greater now than then. Maybe this time will be different and we will get something more than GBII out of the deal. One can hope.
Even if the Idiot Kalifornicated Electorate by some miracle happens to de-throne Boxer, it will be for the wrong reason.
The reason they’d do it would not be based on any intelligence-driven philosophical convictions; but rather, because the Idiot Media slipped up and kept on repeating a bit too often that the State of Kalifornicate is bankrupt (thanks, of course, to politicians like Boxer).
The best chance for Boxer to leave if she decides to “do a Bayh”.
At 70, she might decide she’s done enough damage and call it quits.
Please don’t say that! I am sick at the thought!…. but very possible, even likely. If honest bureaucrats can track this money, it could be a real smoking gun.
They have raided our pockets to get the money to keep these same people in power. None of them are interested in solving the country’s problems.
With a Marxist enemy of the United States in the White House, it is too late to start a Third Party that will not win elections in the next decade, but will instead throw close races, Ross Perot style, to the Demonrats.
The Tea Party people need to support DeVore now in the primaries, and beat Fiorina. A three way race will put Boxer back in.
Take back the Republican Party from the squishes, because there won’t be free elections in the Zimbabwe of North America by the time the Tea Party could win as a separate political party.
Back in the day when third parties arose and established parties died off, America hating Marxists who detest small r republican (indirect representative democracy) government with a limited central government weren’t in office.
Obama is an existential threat to this country, and the longer he has majorities in the Senate, and especially if he wins election again in 2012, the greater the chance this country ceases to exist as a free nation.
We need at least one state to put in strict requirements for proving Constitutional eligibility to hold office before being allowed on the ballot. Those requirements should include a definition of “Natural Born Citizen” in the context of Article II, Section 1. A lawsuit over being declared ineligible would get everything out in the open. Which means, Obummer would decide not to run.
Wouldn’t that be equivalent to enhanced interrogation??
These are truly amazing times we are living in!!!
Almost too good to be true, ma’am.
Don’t Call Me Ma’am. Call me unemployed.
Pride comes before a fall.
And let’s not forget when Sen. Boxer told concerned citizens they “should show a little respect”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzonGRCGJ_Q
And the reason Sen. Boxer only saw clips of Town Hall meetings last summer is because she refused to hold any Town Hall meetings for her constituents.
Instead of holding a Town Hall meeting, Sen. Boxer held book signings to promote her new book.
Sen. Boxer will be 70 years old on November 11. It is time for her to retire!
Go Chuck DeVore!
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A real POSTERGIRL for term limits. Introduce her to the joys of “funemployment”.
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John Bibb
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Let her sell used Yugos after November.
Been worried about that too. Also worried about how the census will effect 2012. I don’t trust the Dems. Always a trick up their sleeves. We’ve all got to stay a step ahead.
They stacked the deck and now their little house of cards is falling down. How delicious! (munching popcorn) More cheese Gromit!
Seeing her out of the Senate would be a very nice thing.
It is no longer true that conservatives have to listen to the endorsements of the establishment GOP, and then promptly obey it.
The Hoffman campaign and the better-managed Scott Brown campaigns showed that the GOP-not a third-rail conservative/uprising movement- is now the inconsequential entity politically.
Chuck DeVore can certainly win the Senator race in California. All that is missing yet is the call to back him with a large money-bomb, which hasn’t been requested yet.
Beck was talking about the career politicians yesterday, Rangel has been there 40 years, Byrd, who knows how long, Kennedy was there for 46 years, McCain, more than 30, too many to name here.
He also talked about the pay and perks they get.
Good, the American people’s anger needs a target and incumbents should be the bull’s eye.
Misscheryl: Actually it is,
Either way, when the mighty fall, they fall mightily!
The country voted for Obambi because he is “acceptably black” (thank you Harriet Reid; one of the few credible things you have ever said!).
Now maybe we can shove some of that moronic mindset back at the Dems by voting against Boxer because she is “unacceptably white” (and liberal and female to boot!).
Dexter Alarius:
You can look up the same definition as the founders used for “natural born citizen”, it can be found in Vattel’s Laws of Nations.
Born in this country of two cititzen parents. Barry Soetoro/Obama is ineligible because his father was a foreign national. Does not matter where he was born.
That picture makes her looks like she skins Dalmation puppies for fun.
Boxer Rocks!
Boxer Rocks!
She’s as smart as a
Boxer Rocks!
Oh, I’m fully aware of de Vattel’s “Laws…”. However, I think the definition needs to be set in black and white in legislation so that there is no doubt about it being law. For example, how much weight do the Federalist Papers carry in court? Maybe a lot… I don’t know. But relying on unofficial sources for what the Founders ‘meant’ is probably not as good as spelling it out in law.
Beats Maya Angelou any day of the week…
Babs can (and probably should) be dumped. But she’ll be replaced by a Democrat.
Oh it can’t be that she’s a c*nt. Bush must be to blame, somehow.
She is sooooo arrogant. That is just one of the reasons for her dismissal.
Make it so #1
Thank you nail49. The correct verse is far better than what I wrote. I’m such a ditz!
Hopefully ~
One more liberal incumbent down…so many more to go!
Virginia Patriot: Not quite true. Kids born overseas of two American parents (military brats, like John McCain or children of State Department personnel) are American citizens and eligible to be POTUS. The US determines citizenship by a combination of jus sanguis (rights by blood) and jus soli (rights by where born).
There is a State Department document one must obtain when born to a US citizen overseas and that helps determine your citizenship. Although I have one stating I was born to an American father, I am ineligible to be POTUS because my Mom was not yet a US citizen when I was born — she had the five years of residency necessary and had passed all the tests, she just hadn’t been before the judge and been sworn in as a citizen when she returned to England where I was born. At my majority I had to declare whether I was a US or UK citizen (I had dual citizenship) and I have a US Certificate of Citizenship (not a Certificate of Naturalization, like my Mom) to show how I chose.
My older brother (by 18 months) was born in the US and, although our Mom was definitely not a citizen at the time, he IS eligible to be POTUS.
Misscheryl: Your comments on this blog are ample proof you are anything but a ditz!
I am just a stickler for Biblical quotes as many use them incorrectly e.g.,
is usually quoted as “Money is the root of all evil”
Rogue Cheddar: I think Spacey called ‘em like she sees ‘em!
heh heh heh
For years, progressives, Democratic liberals, and Rinos have ignored the will of an America that is right of center,and the weasels in both parties are going to be shown to the door in November.
Last year we were “Tea baggers” and an “Astroturf” movement. Now the CYA polititians in Washington are trying to make a 180 degree turn to keep their jobs or they are choosing not to run foe re-election. Boxer’s job is going to be a sweet trophy on the wall. And the poster boy for everything Tea Pary people detest, Juan McCain, is claiming the Tea Party supports him. His senate seat will be another sweet trophy.
“Hope and Change” hasn’t been working out so well for 15 million unemployed Americans. There are going to be a lot of new faces in Washington this fall, and we can only pray that there will be another new one in the whitehouse in 2012.
The real challenge for us Californians is getting the Party of No Democrats out of the legislature.
They’re wedged in like rats in a cheese factory.
People wil be lovers of themselves, LOVERS of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy… 2 Timothy 3:2
YES YES YES!!!!!!!
Tru dat! I just wish I could have the same license with the argot.
I think Obama is more about going down in history for anything and everything than he is about serving the people and that’s why I believe he is going to continue to ignore the will of the people by using his “executive power” to push health care. And to that I say, “oh, please do..”
OT but really great quote…
Reporter: “Let me ask you as plainly as I can, what are your future plans…?”
Bayh: “…you know, if I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.”
Heh.
Obowma stuck in campaign mode. Guess I would rather he be out in Nevada ruining any chance for Dingy Harry than to be in D.C.
I think we should put Pelosi & Boxer in a container and ship it to Keith Olberdolt’s condo.
Knowing how well he gets along with women, and all…
(Plus, they’re all white, just like Keithy’s network!)
Barry would get better odds at the Flamingo in Vegas.
“I’ll go all in on “Lostcause” at 100 to 1 to win! Common baby!!!
LOL–all ya’ll
If embedded politicians find themselves struggling in the polls in big states like California during the campaign, I think there will be big changes made in the halls of Congress – at least that is what I am praying for. Some Americans just vote for whoever they heard was “winning”. We’ll see…
FirstSkirt wrote:
OT, but very timely from “Dr Strangelove” — made in 1964:
General “Buck” Turgidson to President Merkin Muffley
You know that Robert Gibbs also borrowed from General Turgidson’s Book of Wisdom in his analysis of Scott Brown’s election.
Flyoverman: My favorite:
President Muffley:
OH SPACEY, DID YOU DROP THE C BOMB ON DEAR BABS. IF IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR JANE FONDA ON A TV SHOW, IT’S GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME ON THE BLOG. YOU GO GIRL!
cheapseat–well, I did use an asterisk.
There are many women who fit the term I used. What amazes me is that they always blame something else.
No question; best line in the movie.
My other favorite is General Ripper’s Message to the Pentagon that includes the phrase, “My boy’s will get this off to the best possible start; 1,400 megatons worth.”
oh, and cheapseat?
EM EYE ZEE
ZEE OH YOU
Maybe soon we can call her “Ma’am”.
Any learned legal scholars care to answer a nagging question I have? If ‘Bambi runs again and the issue of the dreaded COLB comes up, could he be forced to produce it to re-qualify to run for a second term? His comment about being a great one term prez vs. a mediocre 2 term prez is odd at best, strange at least.
Oh, back on topic – I can only pray they sink an offshore drilling rig right off Santa Barbara just to irritate every single day of her retirement..
*Boxer has hung her hat on the biggest hoax ever perpetrated on mankind, man made global warming, which has probably hurt California economically more than any other state; Now that the hoax has been exposed for what it is, her day is done.
*The emphasis for Tea Party activists should be to get DeVore past Fiorina in the primary, then let the chips fall where they may; Death by RINO may not be as painful as death by Democrat, but the country will still be taking a dirt nap, so we must continue to target the rat bastard RINO’s for removal from office on a parallel path with ALL the Democrats being targeted!
My favorite comment
Let the air out of BB and it’s sure to smell like a fart.
Boxer vs. Fiorina = Satan vs. Hitler.
Carly is a complete sociopath. Trust me I don’t like Babs but Carly is a real piece of work.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2004-02-17/opinion/17414390_1_offshoring-american-jobs-ceo-carly-fiorina
An update on her little ‘no god given right to jobs for American’s’ attitude.
The primary winner needs to adopt “NO MA’AM” as his/her slogan.
I don’t know what numbers you folks have been looking at but CA is not a democrat super heavy area. The numbers don’t show it. Having said that, my fellow statesmen elect some real IDIOTS.
Barbara Boxer Quotes:
Please don’t call us “the Far Right”, Senator. Call us “Taxpayers”. I think we’ve earned that title.
Hmm, has anyone seen Barbara Boxer and Joe Biden in the same room at the same time?
Yes you are Senator. You’re giving Californians the energy to get out and vote this November while they hope for change. And I, for one, will be happy to address you as “Former Senator Boxer”. That’s a title you really have earned.
Conservative response:
“So when you go up against the far left you go up against the big special interests like Government, public interests, labor unions, United Nations supporters, Global Warming nuts, Earth worshipers, Gay lobbyists, shady investment corporations, mainstream media, left wing judges and ACLU lawyers who work so hard to rip us off.”
If they don’t dump the state government and congressmen/senators, there isn’t any sympathy. They’re digging their own grave. Let them lie in it.
Never doubt the ability of the plurality of California voters to do the wrong thing. These are the people who voted in one spending initiative after another making it almost impossible for any future legislature to reign in spending, mandates and truly wacky Green Themes.
While California does have a large-not large enough-Conservative base voter approved Election Reforms and Gerrymandering have isolated and marginalized them to the point of impotence. They flood their state with more and more illegals to push out jobs and productive citizens for a few lousy votes. This is the land of Mayors Antonio Villaraigosa and Gavin Newsom.
I repeat:Never doubt the ability of the plurality of California voters to do the wrong thing. But if “Don’t call me ma’am my husband paid big bucks for this seat” is defeated that would be a good thing.
it will happen. our terminator governor ran as a conservative/republican and ousted a hard core liberal. who knows why the weather or the wife caused him to lose his way?
the ma’am pretends to be senator got her first term by allowing a rumor – circulated by her staff – that her opponent had sex issues. of course she admitted the rumor was false and apologized – after she won election. i hope the dims nominate her to run again. she will be soundly defeated.