Bloomberg on Boxer’s brisk, brusque behavior
By Josh Richman
Sunday, April 29th, 2012 at 5:24 pm in Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senate.
Last week’s Bloomberg Businessweek offered a somewhat light-hearted look at that most entertaining of animals, the U.S. legislator, in its natural habitat. The magazine spent two days in late March observing behavior on the House and Senate floors, and then turned to observers including the Hoover Institution’s Peter Schweizer; Daily Kos congressional expert David Waldman; and Wonkette editor/publisher Rebecca Schoenkopf for analysis.
Among the species observed were the “sustained touchers,” “power Blackberryers,” “iPad gamers,” “style mavens,” “peacemakers,” “primpers” and so on, but only one person got her very own category: U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. Here’s how the magazine described her:
The impassioned California senator virtually never stood still. She also popped small candies. Schweitzer: “She’s probably more feared than loved among staffers and colleagues.” Waldman: “She’s definitely high-energy. She’ll hit 10 to 15 people on her way to her Senate desk, then settle in.” Schoenkopf: “She has personally yelled at me twice.”
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April 30th, 2012 at 6:29 am
It would be better for all if 10 to 15 people hit her instead.
April 30th, 2012 at 9:20 am
@1 — That’s just great — advocate physical violence against a sitting and duly elected member of the US Senate.
The founding fathers must be so proud of you as a representative of our current electorate…
April 30th, 2012 at 2:17 pm
You tell ‘em Truthclubber… it’s O.K. for Boxer to hit 10 to 15 people but not OK for the converse to be true… it’s ’cause she’s a girl, huh. Seriously, I think we both know the euphemisum ‘hit’ means talk to/hit up/harangue and Boxer is the best; many however describe her normal behavior as rhyming with ‘rich.’
April 30th, 2012 at 5:52 pm
@3 — we both know that Waldman meant “hit” as in “approach and proactively talk to”.
We also both know that “Mike Shuchter” meant “hit” as in “physically strike without provocation, with intent to incure bodily injury” — to a sitting member of the US Senate.
Gender and partisan alignment has nothing to do with it; decorum, law and decency DO.
April 30th, 2012 at 10:57 pm
Congress comprises two chambers: the Monkey House and the Higher Apes.
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