Barbara Boxer gets a much deserved come-uppance

Via Politico, the video and a partial transcript of the testy exchange: 

They first started talking about where he lived, which led to Boxer telling him, "Let me talk to you, this is friendly."

That didn't last too long.

Boxer then quoted a NAACP resolution that passed and put it in the record.

Alford: "What does that mean?"

Boxer: "Sir, we're going to put that in the record..." Alford: "What does that mean, though? The NAACP has a resolution, what does that mean?"

Boxer: "Sir, they could say the same thing about what do you mean..."

Alford: "I've got documentation."

Boxer: "Sir, they passed it. They passed it. Now, also, if that isn't interesting you to we'll quote John Grant, who is the CEO of 100 Black Men of Atlanta." [She goes on to read quote.]

Alford: "Madam Chair, that is condescending to me. I'm the National Black Chamber of Commerce and you're trying to put up some other black group to pit against me."

Boxer: "If this gentlemen were here he would be proud that he was being quoted."

Alford: "He should have been invited!"

Boxer: "...just as he would be proud.." Alford: "It is condescending to me."

Boxer: "...he's proud, I'm sure, that I am quoting him."

Alford: "All that's condescending, and I don't like it. It's racial. I don't like it. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that!"

Boxer: "... offense at the fact that I would quote ...?" Alford: "You're quoting some other black man. Why don't you quote some other Asian ... or ... you are being racial here. And I think you're getting to a path here that's going to explode."

Boxer reviews what she had been doing and then mentions that "there is definitely differing opinions in the black community. Just as there are in my community."

Alford: "You're speaking on behalf of the black community?"

Boxer: "No. I am putting in the record a statement by the NAACP."

Alford: "Why?"

Boxer: "Because I think it is quite relevant."

Alford: "... Why are you doing the Colored People Association study with the Black Chamber of Commerce?"

Boxer: "I am trying to show the diversity of support that we have."

Alford: "Diversity?"

Boxer: "And I will go ahead and do one more diversity of support..."

Eventually Alford declares, "We are referring to the experts regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-educated veteran of the United States Army that I must contend with some other black group and put aside everything else in here -- this has nothing to do with the NAACP and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We're talking energy and that road the chair went down, I think, is god-awful."

I agree Mr. Alford... Barbara Boxer is god-awful.

Comments

[tim aka The Godless Heathen]

Well, obviously the Democrats are the party of diversity, equality and don't view people according to their skin color but rather their character of the person. Yup, those Republicans are the racists.

I was waiting for her to insist on him to call her Senator like that General of a couple weeks ago. Huh.

[Rick]

Huh indeed tim...

When playing to your leftist base, dissing a military general is a good thing... not dissing a black man who was certainly more deserving of a dissing if you're going to dish one out... an even better thing...

[DanaMac]

someone told me once that Boxer was the stupidest woman in America, and I argued that Patty Murray wore that crown.

The other person was right. Boxer is stupid. And good for the gentleman for not allowing her to condescend to him andtell him what he is supposed to think, as a black man.

Idiots.

[Morgan K Freeberg]

We didn't all vote for her. Some of us voted against her all three times, and are looking forward to voting against her a fourth time.

If I didn't care about policies one little bit, I'd still rush out to vote against her just because of the sound of her voice. It's the banal tone of the bureaucrat selling things while pretending not to sell things. That she keeps on winning, tells me there is an expansive volume of Californians who a) never encounter this type of bureaucrat, or b) can't see through them. I'm afraid it's the latter.

Just remember this is a powerfully-big state and there are a lot of different types of people living in it. Yes, "we" re-elected Feinstein in '94...next year is shaping up to be a repeat of '94...but it's Boxer that's up then, not Feinstein. She's been acting awful peculiar lately and I'm getting cautiously hopeful.

Chuck DeVore in 2010!

[Whitehall]

Before she was senator, she was a congresswoman from my district. I heard her being told by some Jerry Brown people that they could turn a former SAC base into a "Solar Village" that would use no energy and it would not cost a dime more than conventional construction.

She seemed to believe it! She WANTED to hear that one could get something (energy) for nothing (no extra costs.)

Her orientation is completely political - physical reality has no place in in her calculations.