Despite winning reelection by just 550 votes in a race that’s now undergoing a recount, Rep. Lauren Boebert this week won a vote of confidence from her fellow Republican members of the U.S. House as she was elected to join the party’s policy committee.
Because she is an expert on policy:
The recount was announced just after Boebert was elected to be a new member of the Republican Policy Committee, which serves as an advisory panel and provides “conservative policy solutions to the House Republican Conference.”
The congresswoman, who has represented the 3rd District since 2021 and is the owner of a gun-themed restaurant in Colorado, has garnered outrage by threatening to carry a firearm on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol; joking in a video that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a Muslim, was a member of the “jihad squad” and saying she felt safe riding in an elevator with her only because she didn’t “have a backpack”; celebrating fascist electoral victories in Europe; and making anti-LGBTQ+ comments.
She clearly brings a lot to the policy table.
Maybe this is some kind of backwater committee that they are just parking her in. After all, they aren’t really interested in policy are they? Still, you’d think it would be embarrassing to have this barely-winning-in-a-deep-red-county Rep near anything that resembles serious law making. But then, they are totally shameless so what’s the difference?