Sometimes people are their own worst enemy. Sometimes people are such terrible liars that they're lies transcend mere lying but speak to an underlying reality of who they are. Put them together, and in this case you get Lauren Boebert (R-CO). By itself, this occurrence is not overly significant. In part because her initial video and explanation of why she didn't cast a vote on the debt ceiling was so ludicrous that few with even a modicum of common sense believed it. And in part because it's just one instance of one person. But the level of stupidity in its effort -- lying when just saying, "I had to miss the vote due to an important personal matter" would have been acceptable and normal, and on top of that trying to make your lie a political smear speaks to who Lauren Boebert is, and in a larger perspective, what we see so often in the Republican Party since Trump made doing this sort of thing standard in the party. Lauren Boebert missed the vote on the debt ceiling. As I noted, she could have just simply said she had an important personal matter but was unable to make it to the House floor in time. That would have been fine. And basic human. Instead, she put out a tweet that said she intentionally didn't vote as a "protest." And because she was looking out for you because it's wrong, wrong, wrong to add another $4-6 trillion of national debt. Never mind, of course, that this debt ceiling vote did not add a single penny to the debut, but was only authorizing paying for the debt that had already been accrued. And never mind she has spent her career in Congress enabling Trump who added $8 trillion to the debt. But importantly, too, keep that phrase, "This is more DC self-created garbage" in mind. And then, to add impact, she attached to her tweet this video, trying to look hip and cool, slamming Washington politics, slamming being silenced and explaining that by not intentionally showing up she had been making a "Call it a 'No-Show Protest.'" (It may look like there's no video below, but just click on the arrow. It will play.) Now, as I said, on the pure face of it, it was ludicrous taking her tweet and video at face value -- that Lauren Boebert was supposedly "protesting" the vote by not showing up. She could have shown up and protested by not voting. She could have protested earlier by not supporting the trillions in debt she had voted for under Trump. Moreover, rather than having no interest in the bill, Boebert was the co-sponsor or author of 14 of the 81 proposed amendments. But the important thing -- and the whole point here -- is this: You see, when slamming "DC self-created garbage," Ms. Boebert turns out (not shockingly) to have been writing about herself. That's because the night of the vote, CNN Associate Producer Morgan Rimmer was doing his job, and standing outside the U.S. Capitol on the steps with his camera in hand. And he spoke to Lauren Boebert racing up the stairs, trying to make the vote she was supposedly "protesting" by staying away, and Rimmer telling her that she was too late, and that the vote had closed already. This, in case you were wondering, is the definition of "DC self-created garbage." And though it's just one person on one day, it also pretty much defines Lauren Boebert and the core of today's Republican Party, starting with Trump as their guide -- lying when there's absolutely no need to, just because it's almost in their blood to lie and driven to it, and in doing so, making their lie an attempted smear of Democrats. But handling it all so ham-fistedly that they draw all attention to themselves with their very own words and their own "DC self-created garbage." This is also the definition of projection, trying to paint others with your own deepest flaws, something Trump turned into an art form. And which here, Lauren Boebert turns into DC self-created garbage
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