July 05, 2023 02:44 PM UTC

Boebert STILL Making Excuses For Missing That Damn Vote

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• by: Colorado Pols

On the last day of May, Colorado’s cantankerous calamity Rep. Lauren Boebert drew scorn by the wagonload by missing the window to vote against the debt-ceiling increase compromise legislation brokered by GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy and the White House after spending the preceding days raging against the deal at every opportunity. Initially claiming she was “unavoidably detained” while trying to get to the House floor, Boebert changed her story a few days later to claim that missing the vote was a deliberate act of protest. That revised version of events fell apart almost immediately after reporters produced video of Boebert running up the steps of the Capitol trying to reach the chambers and being told the vote had already been closed.

Ordinarily, when a politician is caught as red-handed lying as Boebert was trying to make excuses for not doing their job, said politician will follow the time-honored best advice in that situation and stop talking about it. But if that’s what you expected to happen here, you don’t know Lauren Boebert:

Lauren Boebert now claims she was determined to skip the debt ceiling vote and go home out of frustration before trying to vote no:

“I had determined I wasn’t even going to take the vote. …I had second thoughts, thought about going and taking the vote, missed the vote, shucks.” pic.twitter.com/o6x8LwVbno

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) July 3, 2023

Courtesy PatriotTakes, here is Boebert over the holiday weekend in Eagle County offering her third different variation of the story. In this latest retelling, Boebert thought about skipping the vote, which explains the initial delay, then thought twice and ran to make the vote thus explaining the on-camera running–but she didn’t make it, and only at this time stopped caring once and for all.

We’re really not sure why Boebert felt the need to retell this story a third time, except perhaps that it’s bothering her conscience and she knows it’s politically damaging. All three versions of the story, and especially the changing of stories mid-scandal, tell the same story of a politician more interested in grandstanding than the job she was sent to Congress to do, which is to vote on legislation. And when questioned, Boebert turns up the volume on her rhetoric rather than take responsibility for her own mistakes.

It doesn’t matter which side of the issue you’re on. Everyone’s time has been wasted.