House Committee Passes COVID Relief, Boebert Calls Bullcrap

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by: Colorado Pols

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

48 hours ago, Lauren Boebert flew to Mar-A-Lago for a $5,800-per-plate resort fundraiser.

Today, she voted against $1,400 relief checks for Colorado families.

That's it. That's the tweet.

— Kerry Donovan (@KerryDonovanCO) February 22, 2021

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Rep. Lauren Boebert calling bullcrap on your relief check.

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:

“$500 billion is included for bailing out the blue states and localities that mismanaged their budgets,” Boebert said of state and local aid.

Last year, Boebert made similar aid a campaign issue against Rep. Scott Tipton, labeling his aid bill “the Boulder Bailout.” #copolitics

— Justin Wingerter (@JustinWingerter) February 22, 2021

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.

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

DawnPatrol says:

February 22, 2021 at 1:55 pm

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…

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1. MichaelBowman says:
  
  February 23, 2021 at 1:26 pm
  
  "Winners make policy, losers go home."
  
  ~Mitch McConnell
  
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2. MichaelBowman says:
  
  February 24, 2021 at 9:11 am
  
  "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.
  
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unnamed says:

February 22, 2021 at 2:04 pm

Would it make her feel better if the checks weren't sent to sex offenders or people with criminal records?

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1. davebarnes says:
  
  February 22, 2021 at 4:14 pm
  
  Why should being a sex offender be disqualifying?
  Don't they have to eat and have a place to live?
  
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  1. unnamed says:
    
    February 22, 2021 at 6:47 pm
    
    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?
    
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2. Duke Cox says:
  
  February 22, 2021 at 5:42 pm
  
  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” .
  
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  1. Gilpin Guy says:
    
    February 23, 2021 at 8:56 am
    
    Her expense reimbursements are the makings of comedy gold. Government money for me but not for thee.
    
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  2. gertie97 says:
    
    February 23, 2021 at 8:59 am
    
    Exactly. And her family's checks will be cashed quickly, too.
    
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bullshit! says:

February 22, 2021 at 2:25 pm

Say my name right.

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Voyageur says:

February 22, 2021 at 2:40 pm

My God, they put a high school dropout on the Budget Committee?

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1. bullshit! says:
  
  February 22, 2021 at 4:09 pm
  
  It's for the lulz! Haven't you seen The Reluctant Astronaut?
  
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Golden Girl says:

February 22, 2021 at 2:47 pm

Go Kerry Go!

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1. NOV GOP meltdown says:
  
  February 22, 2021 at 2:51 pm
  
  Donovan's tweet is pretty damn good. Brevity is the soul of wit they say.
  
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unnamed says:

February 22, 2021 at 6:48 pm

That picture of her looks almost demonic to me.

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JohnInDenver says:

February 23, 2021 at 7:51 am

It will be interesting to see how she votes on the nearly inevitable "funds for Texas recovery" bill.

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1. Diogenesdemar says:
  
  February 23, 2021 at 8:40 am
  
  I'm gonna' guess she votes the very best interests of her sugah daddy, (F)Lyin' Ted . . .
  
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  1. Duke Cox says:
    
    February 23, 2021 at 9:01 am
    
    (F)Lyin' Ted…consider that stolen…😁
    
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    1. Diogenesdemar says:
      
      February 23, 2021 at 9:09 am
      
      It’s already stolen merchandise — Kimmel or Meyers, maybe? Can’t remember where I read it . . .
      
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      1. Duke Cox says:
        
        February 23, 2021 at 9:20 am
        
        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.
        
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Sparky says:

February 24, 2021 at 12:45 pm

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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