Republicans aren’t sending their brightest, are they?
In a recent post on X, the social media platform formerly called Twitter, Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tried to characterize recent snow storms as meaningfully discrediting towards climate change. “You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protestors trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to yell about how the planet is warming. They just don’t see it, do they?” she said on the platform.
Temporary weather patterns are, of course, distinct from the more expansive changes in climate about which scientists have been so concerned. The world’s leading scientists with expertise in relevant fields didn’t either forget to consider the fact that sometimes it snows or intentionally push from their considerations the fact that… sometimes it snows. And yet, Boebert and the House’s GOP majority are apparently the ones we’re currently supposed to be trusting to handle important policy-making, at least until a potential retaking of the chamber by Democrats early next year.
In the face of a potentially close race for another term, Boebert is abandoning her district and instead running this year in a different one: the Colorado House district that Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) is vacating. Currently running in the Democratic primary in Colorado’s Third District, where Boebert presently serves, is the same Democrat who finished merely hundreds of votes behind the infamous Republican back in 2022, and in the time since, Boebert certainly hasn’t seen substantial improvements to her public image. Just check her social media feeds!
She’s veered in this term from unsuccessfully pursuing an impeachment of the president on the basis of brazenly false claims about the border to turning to damage control after she was kicked out of a theater show in Colorado. And recent polling from YouGov and The Economist finds that hardly anyone thinks that Congress last year was more effective than the year prior, when Democrats had the House majority.
