June 18, 2009
Barbara Boxer: What an embarrassment
Barbara Boxer has long been an embarassment, perhaps the stupidest senator in a chamber chock-full-o-idiots, but this is compelling evidence that California is represented by an insecure maroon.
Overheard at a Senate hearing yesterday:
"Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am?' It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it."
--Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) to Brigadier General Michael Walsh during Senate hearing Tuesday, when he the general repeatedly said, "Yes, ma'am," and "No, ma'am," when answering Boxer's questions at hearing she chaired on New Orleans' levee system.
In the military, it is a sign of respect to refer to someone as "Sir" or Ma'am," and is also a means of recognizing that the person being so addressed is higher in rank. Futhermore, if one watches C-Span on a regular basis, it becomes apparent that military officers refer to male senators as "Sir" far more often than "senator." As a matter of fact, referring to someone by his rank -- instead of "Sir" -- can sometimes be perceived as a subtle act of insubordination.
One would think that Boxer, having been in the Senate for far too many years, would have noticed her male colleagus being called "Sir," as well as her fellow Californian, Diane Feinstein, being addressed as "Ma'am."
Furthermore, Boxer hasn't "worked so hard to get that title." She is an elected representative of the People. I'd say she was a feckless crapweasel, like the rest of the politicians, but that's just me. We don't have royalty in this country, no peerage; if "Mr." is good enough for the president, then Boxer can accept the same honorific as the rest of her colleagues.
If her deep-seated insecurity about her incompetence and stupidity will allow her to stop demanding special treatment from General Walsh.
Way to go, Babs. Nothing screams gravitas and dignity like a whine and a pout.
Jimmy Dugan: Are you crying? Are you crying? ARE YOU CRYING? There's no crying! THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL!
Doris Murphy: Why don't you give her a break, Jimmy...
Jimmy Dugan: Oh, you zip it, Doris! Rogers Hornsby was my manager, and he called me a talking pile of pigshit. And that was when my parents drove all the way down from Michigan to see me play the game. And did I cry?
Evelyn Gardner: No, no, no.
Jimmy Dugan: Yeah! NO. And do you know why?
Evelyn Gardner: No...
Jimmy Dugan: Because there's no crying in baseball. THERE'S NO CRYING IN BASEBALL! No crying!
Cripes.
Posted by Mike Lief at June 18, 2009 07:54 AM
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I suspect the general worked far harder to attain his rank and title than she did to attain hers.
Even if Boxer were right as a matter of protocol (which she isn't--"ma'am" is just as appropriate as "Senator"), she's a piece of trash for correcting the general on the record at a hearing. If she had any class, any dignity, any confidence in her position whatsoever, she'd ask her staff to contact the general's aide and ask for a different form of address next time. On the quiet. Professionally.
It's a tribute to this general that he did not tell her to suck his c@*k right then and there. She deserves no less.
Posted by: LT at June 18, 2009 12:22 PM
Dennis Prager dismisses Boxer's response as not merely being childishly immature, but also emblematic of the liberals' differing set of standards. He suggests she would never have humiliated anybody but a WASP military man because she and other libs have lowered the standards of civility for everybody else to the point they cannot be humiliated by anything.
Of course, it could also be that Boxer doesn't think she is enough of a woman, or a lady, to be entitled to be addressed as "ma'am." That seems unlikely, doesn't it, but I suppose it is possible that there is SOMETHING Boxer doesn't think she is entitled to. Or, maybe not . . .
Titles, titles . . . I have heard of judges who are grossly offended if they are ever called anything in court except "your honor" in direct address or "his honor" by reference. Give me a break ... "sir", "ma'am", "judge" . . . lighten up a little.
Posted by: The Little Coach at June 23, 2009 10:40 AM