Why I Call her, “Ma’am Boxer”
Commenting on a Politco article noting that Democrats are raising concerns about the embarrassing antics of my state’s junior Senator, Michelle Malkin writes, “Guilting. Hectoring. Race-baiting. Emotional-card-playing. [Ma'am Boxer] doesn’t know any other way to do things.“
And all the while holding different standards for different people. She’ll hector one peson for behavior which she lets slide in another. She objected when Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, testifying before a Senate committee called her “Ma’am,” but did not raise the same concern when when Black Chamber of Commerce, President and CEO Harry Alford addressed her in the very same manner.
In 1991, then a member of the House of Representatives, joined by a handful of her female Democratic colleagues in feigned high dudgeon, she stormed the Senate steps to demand a delay in Clarence Thomas’s confirmation hearings because that good man had been accused of sexual harassment. Her concern about the importance of investigating sexual harassment vanished when a Democrat was accused of far more reprehensible behavior. In the 1990s, she stood by Bill Clinton,
even thanking him in her victory speech when she won re-election to the U.S. Senate [in 1998]. The woman who raised a ruckus over a Republican accused of boorish behavior (talking about porno movies and pubic hairs on Coke cans) was silent when a Democrat was accused of rape.
In short, she’s a partisan hypocrite. And that’s why I call her Ma’am. When a military official called her, “Ma’am,” she singled him out for scolding, yet when the representative of a black business group used the very same term, she wasn’t offended. I’m sure intrepid web-searchers could find more such examples of her not objecting when individuals address her as Ma’am.
By using this term as her “honorific,” I hope to remind people of this bitter partisan’s hypocrisy.
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The reason she got away with browbeating the General is that she could, and would, ruin his career if he objected in any way. Most of the witnesses who appear before Congress are in the same position or could suffer economically if they made enemies. That is why she was flummoxed when Mr. Alford let her have it. She’s used to sheep, not wolves. She is a bully, amongst other distasteful things.
Comment by Roy Lofquist — July 24, 2009 @ 8:01 pm - July 24, 2009
Ma’am? When it comes to Boxer, I am reminded of an old story about Harry Truman…
From Time: Truman once offended a friend of his wife’s by referring repeatedly to “the good manure” that must have been used to nurture the fine blossoms at a Washington horticulture show. “Bess, couldn’t you get the President to say ‘fertilizer’?” the woman complained. Replied Mrs. Truman: “Heavens, no. It took me 25 years to get him to say ‘manure.’
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,910501-4,00.html
Comment by SoCalRobert — July 24, 2009 @ 10:15 pm - July 24, 2009
Also, according to Rasmussen, Ma’am Boxer is only running 4 points ahead of her opponent, Carly Fiorina. For a supposedly “entrenched” incumbent to be less than 5 points higher than a political nobody, it doesn’t bode well for Ma’am Boxer:
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections2/election_2010/election_2010_senate_elections/california/election_2010_california_senate
PS: Looks like Chris Dodd is politically in danger, too. Gotta love it!
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 24, 2009 @ 10:56 pm - July 24, 2009
Fiorina’s role in 2008 as John McBailout’s economic and business advisor is troubling, but still, I respect her as a self-made woman and will take her over Boxer any day.
Comment by ILoveCapitalism — July 25, 2009 @ 9:14 am - July 25, 2009
Most of the people smart enough to vote against Ma’am Boxer left for Arizona, Nevada and Utah a long time ago. She’s safe.
Comment by V the K — July 25, 2009 @ 9:57 am - July 25, 2009
I still can´t figure out how in the hell she ever made it to the Senate. When she was the candidate in 1992 while still in Congress, she set a record for overdrafts (close to 500) in the congressional bank. That alone should have told the electorate that she was irresponsible. When she was elected to the Senate she was anything but gracious in her victory speech, in particular to her Republican challenger, Bruce Herschensohn.
Comment by Roberto — July 25, 2009 @ 12:04 pm - July 25, 2009
[...] in order to show the pettiness, condescension and hypocrisy of California’s junior Senator, Ma’am Barbara Boxer, you’ll note that both men, Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and [...]
Pingback by GayPatriot » Barbara Boxer Ma’amapalooza — July 27, 2009 @ 3:28 am - July 27, 2009
I have another word to call Boxer besides Ma’am… It starts with a “C”….
Comment by Hugh — July 27, 2009 @ 7:49 am - July 27, 2009
#8 – And it rhymes with “aunt?”
Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — July 27, 2009 @ 11:38 am - July 27, 2009