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February 22, 2021 01:44 PM UTC

House Committee Passes COVID Relief, Boebert Calls Bullcrap

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  • by: Colorado Pols

UPDATE: CD-3 Democratic candidate Kerry Donovan returns service:

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Rep. Lauren Boebert calling bullcrap on your relief check.

The Hill:

The House Budget Committee on Monday advanced President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill on a 19-16 party line vote.

The bill must still be marked up by the Rules Committee before consideration on the House floor, likely on Friday or Saturday. The legislation will then have to be taken up in the Senate, where it is expected to face considerable procedural and political challenges…

Republicans on the panel…slammed Democrats for advancing the bill through budget reconciliation, a process that will allow them to pass it without GOP support in the Senate, saying the legislation amounted to a “liberal wish list” and arguing that many of its provisions have nothing to do with the pandemic.

“This is the wrong plan at the wrong time, and for all the wrong reasons,” said ranking member Jason Smith (R-Mo.), pointing to $350 billion in state and local aid that he said would encourage lockdowns. [Pols emphasis]

Republican objectors on the House Budget Committee included Colorado’s own Rep. Lauren Boebert, who for reasons we have not been able to precisely determine was appointed by Republican House leadership to the House Budget Committee. Holding forth eloquently, Rep. Boebert fired off her now-signature line:

In our experience Rep. Boebert generally cuts and pastes the talking points given to her verbatim, but the suggestion that the aid to state and local governments in the relief legislation is “bailing out the blue states” who have “mismanaged their budgets” is particularly galling coming from a representative of Colorado. Colorado, as everyone who is familiar with our state’s fiscal situation knows, runs one of the tightest budgetary ships in America under the draconian constitutional chokeholds on both taxing and spending imposed over the years. Colorado has no means of backfilling the massive revenue shortfalls brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, and absolutely no “mismanagement” in Colorado is to blame for an economic crisis that has literally swept the globe.

Whether Boebert doesn’t know or doesn’t care about the needs of the state she was elected to represent in Congress, at a certain level, is irrelevant. The reality is that Colorado desperately needs the fiscal aid Democrats are trying to provide over Republican objections, for which the only alternative is devastating cuts to essential services Boebert’s constituents rely on. Boebert’s casual disregard for the needs of her district, from individuals hanging on for that $1,400 direct payment to the local governments across CD-3 for whom this relief is an essential lifeline, is insult piled on the injury of the long delay.

And it is “bullcrap,” just not the way Boebert thinks.

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21 thoughts on “House Committee Passes COVID Relief, Boebert Calls Bullcrap”

  1. Colorado’s CD-3 has a very big, disgusting, embarrassing wad of old chewing gum stuck to its shoe.

     

    I trust said district will be smart enough and wise enough to scrape it off in two years’ time…

    2. "Republicans are quickly running out of friends"

      Business leaders line up in support of Democrats' COVID relief plan

      That said, the bigger picture suggests that in this legislative fight, Republicans are quickly running out of friends. Recent polling suggests the Democratic proposal is very popular, and its opponents have struggled to come up with a case against it. What's more, as floor votes on the plan draw closer, the proposal has picked up the backing of plenty of Republican officials — including governors and mayors — from outside D.C.

      1. Well, if Q-bert wants to complain about giving checks to the "losers" those types of people would qualify.  

        C'mon.  It's not like she has a criminal record, or knows someone who is a sex offender.  Right?

    2. Calamity Jane is diggin’ on the government cheese. As we all know, government cheese and campaign cheese are fungible. Once catapulted to the rare atmosphere of Congress, the newcomer is soon walking through a candy store of patronage. The opportunistic congresscritter will have myriad choices of the finest cheeses and candies.

      Some call it the “Gardner Protocols” .

       

          1. Public domain then. There is so much…”Fled” Cruz is another. 

            What a sorry ass jerk. His neighbors made some tweets public. He called them assholes. What an interesting life he has.

  8. It's amazing that she truly seems to believe that her only job as a member of Congress is to post childish insults on Twitter.

    Then again, look who she learned from and idolizes.

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