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McCarthy may make us unwilling participants in his humiliation kink, but there's Boebert on MSNBC [1]
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Date: 2023-01-05
At the end of her unexpected interview with MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle, Lauren Boebert (R-CO) muttered to Stephanie, “you’re such a failure.” Gish Gallop comes to the younger version of Sarah Palin. So much attention-seeking, so little self-awareness.
x BRUTAL!🙀😹As if we didn't already know that Boebert is not the brightest, why would even she agree to this disastrous interview with Stephanie Ruhle🤪😹? Causing chaos, owning the "libs" and she is nuts💯🎯😹. The party of law & order, family values BS.
https://t.co/yuA4AVDhYG — Darren Jordan (@misterzook) January 6, 2023
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) made a rare appearance on MSNBC late Wednesday evening, participating in an interview with host Stephanie Ruhle that at times grew contentious as the congresswoman discussed her efforts to block Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s (R-Calif.) bid to claim the House Speakership.
“I want you to know that we are not giving her a free pass to talk about conspiracy theories, we’re not giving her a free pass to talk about the lies that she has spread at other times,” Ruhle said as she explained to her audience why she was having the staunchly conservative congresswoman on. “But trying to understand what is keeping Congress from starting the work of the American people, that’s why we talked to her tonight.”
During Wednesday’s interview, Ruhle repeatedly pressed Boebert on why she and a handful of other Republicans are standing in the way of McCarthy’s bid for the Speakership, which had failed over six votes as of that evening.
“Look, Kevin McCarthy has been in leadership for 14 years. What does he have to show for that?” the Republican said. “We aren’t just electing somebody who can fundraise and just rubberstamp him into office. That’s not what I was elected to do. … But this is us working and actually using our votes, and I believe our Founding Fathers intended it to be this way.”
“OK, well, our Founding Fathers aren’t here,” Ruhle replied. “So let’s get real and let’s get practical.”
Ruhle then asked Boebert about alternatives to McCarthy.
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The whole interview is fascinating to watch, and to both Ruhle and Boebert’s credit, the ideological and partisan foes were remarkably respectful of one another. However, the discussion was less about policy and more about what the rebel faction truly wants out of the speakership. At one point, Ruhle flatly asked if her guest didn’t like McCarthy, to which Boebert went Godfather in her response, saying that it wasn’t personal.
But the most entertaining bit came when Ruhle asked why Boebert wasn’t more like her GOP colleague turned reported rival (frenemy), Marjorie Taylor Green.
Ruhle ostensibly defended McCarthy’s bid for the speakership, saying, “most Republicans are with him. I mean, half the Freedom Caucus is. It wasn’t like he came out of nowhere. He got the nomination from Republicans resoundingly in November.”
She then asked her guest why she wasn’t more like the firebrand GOP Rep from Georgia. “Why wouldn’t you take the route of, say, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who shares much of your ideology, take the win, get practical, get yourself on a bunch of committees, and actually do something to set policy?”
Boebert did not take the Taylor Greene bait, alas, and instead replied, ” We are absolutely in the works of doing something to set policy.”
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