Pic Of The Moment: Boebert: Federal Funding Is Wasteful Garbage!

[EarlG]

Rep. Lauren Boebert called Biden's infrastructure bill 'wasteful' and 'garbage.' Now she wants $33 million in infrastructure funding for a new bridge.

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[central scrutinizer]

1. Typical congressperson

The project in my district is vital, the project in your district is wasteful and corrupt pork barrel.

[progressoid]

6. And typical republican

Around here the blatant example is farmers. The bitch about government spending while they are first in line for their ag subsidies.

https://farm.ewg.org/search.php

[Rebl2]

16. Yep

[The Jungle 1]

23. Double yup

We also spend way more on socialist corporate welfare then all social welfare.
Here in Pa we lead the nation in socialist corporate welfare. We lag the nation in job creation.

[KS Toronado]

2. Boebert is only the tip of the iceberg

when it comes to R's hypocrisy regarding the infrastructure bill,
both my R senators are in the same boat.

[purr-rat beauty]

3. Too bad she's wisening up - we very rarely hold them to their past words

I hope this helps the people of the district - she should not take credit, she should apologize

[SheltieLover]

4. Qpukes resent any social programs. They see $ that they could bd grifting!

[SergeStorms]

5. She's a waste of air.

I hope the voters in her district see through her extremely thin veneer of "conservative" governance, and send her back to her greasy-spoon gin mill, where she can poison her slack-jawed, gun-toting goobers with her rotten food and crackpot conspiracy theories.

She's a festering pus-boil on the ass of the species.

[keithbvadu2]

7. Pork barrel vs bacon

Pork is when that other politician wastefully takes taxpayers money to their district.

It's bacon when you bring it home to the deserving folks in your district.

[TwilightZone]

8. She's like Ron Paul in female form.

He was notorious for voting no on everything, then asking for more spending for his district than nearly anyone else in Congress.

He'd then claim he was only doing his job.

[Quanto Magnus]

9. Hey, she made it clear she didn't want it

So, don't give it to her and any time she complains, just point out her no vote...

[2naSalit]

10. The only off-ramp I see in her future...

Is the one that assures her exit from Congress!

[malthaussen]

11. It's not *exactly* hypocrisy.

This has aspects of business as usual, except for one thing I'll mention later. But it is not uncommon at all for a legislator to oppose a funding bill, and then when it passes anyway, to request some of the funds for his district. They are really two different things. For example, one might oppose the wasteful and ridiculous spending on the F-35 boondoggle, and then when the bill passes anyway, try to get funding to set up component manufacturing in his district.

What makes this a little different is making a great to-do and political capital of one's opposition to the measure, and then demanding a piece of the pie. If the principle by which you oppose a measure is so great, then one should not soil one's hands with the product.

-- Mal

[SpankMe]

15. I dunno...

A typical definition of hypocrisy-

Behavior that contradicts what one claims to believe or feel. The practice of claiming to have moral standards or beliefs to which one's own behavior does not conform. Boebert believes that the spending is wasteful and thus she opposed the spending and voted 'no' on the bill. Then she behaved by spending money from that very bill. That is directly hypocritical per this definition.

This may be business as usual. But, it still qualifies as full-throated hypocrisy.

[malthaussen]

27. But they are really two different things.

Let's try an analogy. Supposing one is a staff officer or a subordinate of a person with the power to make decisions. One might, in his advisory capacity, strenuously argue against a measure he thinks sub-optimal, but once the decision has been made, it is his duty to work to see it carried out successfully. It is only in a very extreme case that one should resign over the decision, and that is usually when one sees moral implications beyond the content of the order that he cannot in conscience support.

In the case of Federal funding, it is the duty of a Representative to vote in accordance with what they believe is the correct decision, but if the vote nevertheless goes against them, then it is their duty to support it (and also to get the best deal for their constituents they can). Of course, in Real Life representatives rarely vote this way, instead voting as their Party leadership instructs (especially if they are Republicans). Nevertheless, the fact that they fail their duty in the first instance does not mean they have no duty in the second.

If, however, one makes a great to-do about how the decision cannot be tolerated, turns it into a moral issue in which they are a lonely, courageous voice speaking out against something fundamentally unsound, then they shouldn't be requesting a share of the allocation when it is made.

The point being, not all votes are moral questions, and thus hypocrisy, which is concerned with moral standards, does not apply unless one raises the vote to the level of a moral question, in which case they should abide by their judgement.

-- Mal

[IronLionZion]

12. I'm surprised she would do anything for her constituents

Ron Paul was like that too. He would routinely put in funding items for his district (like it's his job) and then vote against the overall bill because he's against "wasteful spending".

[SergeStorms]

20. She wants this money for them....

but only if they put her name on the bridge they want to build.

I'd bet my house on that. A nice bronzed plaque with "Compliments of Representative Bobo Boebert (R) Colorado", or something of that effect.

I've seen that same B.S. dozens of times by republicans. Taking credit for using the taxpayer's money.

[The Jungle 1]

24. Dewalt

I love battery operated grinders.

[SergeStorms]

25. 👍

😉

[keithbvadu2]

29. The Lauren Boebert and Wienie Wagging Pervert Husband Bridge

The Lauren Boebert and Wienie Wagging Pervert Husband Bridge

[randr]

13. Wasteful funding indeed!

The City of Glenwood Springs recently added an enormous entrance/exit for Interstate 70 at the end of their main commercial street. The exchange included a crossing of the Colorado River in a limited space, exits and entrees from numerous tourist attractions, and took a huge amount of time and interruption of only traffic access to upper Valley which includes entire Aspen/Snowmass area.
The City argued for this in opposition to this new proposal to protect traffic to commercial stores already impacted and practically unacceptable with existing traffic.
Now that they have come to their senses they are requesting the new route, which should have been built in the first place.
I say let them stew in the exhaust for a few more years.

[Master_Monstruwacan]

14. Well, to be fair,

SHE is wasteful garbage.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. K&R

[Aviation Pro]

18. I'd love to write the response from Secretary Buttigieg

"Fuck off, Booby-Boo-Boo."

[twodogsbarking]

19. Says the person whose income is either from federal funding

or because of the position she holds with (but not for) the federally funded government.

[cutroot]

21. The din piss and mutter that I overhear from my rw acquaintances

Is that the money has been stolen from them anyway. She is just trying to claw it back. It is a simplistic tit for tat attitude I know. That is what they truly believe. This belief is the justification for much of the deplorable behavior. Two dimensional thinking.

[Martin Eden]

22. I am shocked -- SHOCKED I tell you!!!

To find hypocrisy in the GQP.

[paleotn]

26. No money for red districts, period.

Most suck more money out of DC than they send anyway.

[liberal N proud]

28. It's part of the republican hypocrisy and selfishness

They want whatever they can get, but no one else should get any.

[Aussie105]

30. Zero sum thinking.

The more for someone else, the less for me.

Classy, Lauren. Very classy!