Senator Barbara Boxer Gets Taken Down a Few Notches

How the heck did Barbara Boxer get elected to the US Senate anyway? Even the San Francisco liberals who overwhelmingly voted for her have to be embarrassed by her latest gaffe. In a recent hearing in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Boxer plays the racial politics game and elicits a strong response from Harry C. Alford, the head of the Black Chamber of Commerce. Alford apparently expect to testify about the specifics of energy policy, yet Boxer apparently was only interested in getting him to fall in line with other black groups like the NAACP. Check out the video below, and feel free to cheer out loud at how Alford brings Boxer down a few notches.

If there is one thing worth noting about Boxer, it's that she is incredibly arrogant. Check out how she handled this exchange with a General in the US military:



Amazing, isn't it? Maybe Boxer should consider how hard the General worked to get where he is instead of talking to him as if he's a bratty teenager. In the military, addressing a woman as "ma'am" is a sign of respect. Boxer is wrong to take offense to it and even more wrong to publicly chastise him for it.