Althouse: "GOP lawmaker calls witness ‘boo’ at hearing, prompts Ocasio-Cortez apology."

September 17, 2022

"GOP lawmaker calls witness ‘boo’ at hearing, prompts Ocasio-Cortez apology."

WaPo reports.

Here, watch for yourself, in case you, like me, found it hard to believe:

102 comments:

gilbar said...: IF you HATE oil, and oil corporations; You NEED to commit suicide.
You Can't live here; i know that's Scary... BOO!; 9/17/22, 10:55 AM
gilbar said...: btw, can Rep Higgins and I mention the fact; that we Stutter? You CAN'T hold our words against us; 9/17/22, 10:57 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: I think it's very considerate that legislative leaders are beginning to converse with ethnic minorities in their own language.

From 'si se puede' to 'you're trippin boo', yes we can!; 9/17/22, 11:02 AM
Fred Perkins said...: Higgins is a Cajun. Terms like “Boo” and “Cher” are frequently inserted in conversations. It’s an informal you, sort of like du/sie in German.

Perkins in Louisiana; 9/17/22, 11:03 AM
RideSpaceMountain said...: How to call someone a spook without calling them a spook.

Comedy gold.; 9/17/22, 11:04 AM
hombre said...: Overly familiar, somewhat patronizing, but hardly a headline panty twister - unless you're AOC.; 9/17/22, 11:06 AM
Yancey Ward said...: I would have told her she had shit for her brains, so I think Higgins was being far too courteous.; 9/17/22, 11:09 AM
Yancey Ward said...: And let's acknowledge that he didn't call her a fat, pony-faced liar.; 9/17/22, 11:10 AM
Narr said...: Two privileged and self-satisfied young bitches exhibiting the fruits of their educations.

The witness lost any sympathy I might have felt when she went all heart-and-religion on the guy, and AOC of course played the violence angle for all she's worth.

Anyway, what is hard to believe about any of it? Might need the 'civility bullshit' tag.; 9/17/22, 11:12 AM
Michael K said...: Tucker had the Congressman on last night. Interesting discussion.; 9/17/22, 11:12 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: I didn't hear the boo.
I did hear common sense from the GOP dude.; 9/17/22, 11:15 AM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: These poor victim winim have never watched fights in British Parliament, have they?

Politiks is a tough sport.

What I have noticed on the left - locally and nationally - the left cannot take any criticism. ANY.; 9/17/22, 11:18 AM
traditionalguy said...: It’s stunning. A GOP representative actually fought back in public against the Green New Deal fascist scam artist. How dare he! Truth is forbidden in Congress.; 9/17/22, 11:19 AM
Randomizer said...: Did Rep Higgins say "boo"? I heard something in a spirited exchange, but it didn't seem like a snidely insult. Higgins was firm, but no disrespectful.

Rep Ocasio-Cortez started out strong, but then she sounded like she might cry when she implied that Higgins beats his wife. How does that play with women? Ocasio-Cortez made it a gender conflict, with the implication that women need to be protected from frank criticism. That seems patronizing and would have sounded clearly inappropriate if Ocasio-Cortez were a man.

Good for Executive Director Salter for not accepting that she needed protection.

I could be all wrong on this, since I don't know that Higgins is a man and Ocasio-Cortez and Salter are women.; 9/17/22, 11:24 AM
Michael said...: The horror.; 9/17/22, 11:29 AM
Buckwheathikes said...: AOC is sooooo sexy when she's hangry. Yummy!; 9/17/22, 11:36 AM
Inga said...: He was a jerk, calling her “boo”, talking over her and only then did she raise her voice to be heard with him talking over her.; 9/17/22, 11:36 AM
n.n said...: A back... black hole... whore incident? h/t NAACP; 9/17/22, 11:43 AM
Inga said...: I watched the clip three times and only on the third try heard him say boo, after he said he was “trying to give her the floor”. Would he have called a white male witness “boo”? Who does he think he is, her daddy or her friend? He was unprofessional, and as I said, a jerk.; 9/17/22, 11:48 AM
Inga said...: “I would have told her she had shit for her brains, so I think Higgins was being far too courteous.”

Good thing you’re just an internet commenter and without power.; 9/17/22, 11:49 AM
Maynard said...: He was a jerk, calling her “boo”, talking over her and only then did she raise her voice to be heard with him talking over her.

My wife calls me and her son "Boo" as a term of affection.

However the White man calling a person of color "Boo" is obviously racist.

She was making such a wonderful point that Big Oil is also racist because the petrochemical companies are trying to destroy people of color.

What a world we live in.; 9/17/22, 11:54 AM
Temujin said...: It's cajun. It's a term of endearment referring to a child or someone you love. It's a variant of what a North Carolinian or Georgian might mean in saying to her, "Bless your heart". It's a nice way of saying you don't know what you're talking about.

AOC is an abject moron.; 9/17/22, 11:56 AM
Owen said...: Moron testifies with a string of howlingly wrong and baseless claims purporting to be Science. When confronted with inconvenient and irrefutable facts, dissolves into tears. "Mommy, he looked at me funny!" AOC adopts the motherly role and, voice shaking with faux emotion, pretends to speak for the entire Congress.

This scene would not be out of place in Paris 1793.; 9/17/22, 11:56 AM
William said...: I seem to remember that Kavanaugh was given a hard time, but, of course, he was a man who had spent most of his teen age years participating in gang rapes and making fart jokes so he probably deserved much worse.; 9/17/22, 12:00 PM
Aggie said...: It was overly-familiar, in a demeaning way, to call her 'boo', but it's a common familiarity in Louisiana, especially south of I-10. It's not pejorative, nor is it in any way interpreted as a racist term (except for tactical advantage when complaining about it). It's more like a Southern Gentleman saying 'There, there, little lady'. It's just a kind of a chauvinistic put-down in this case, and incidentally: The Congressman is well within his rights as the receiver of testimony, to ask hard questions and needle the witness to get a straight answer.

I love the way AOC's face gets all blotchy when she's pretending to get angry and outraged.; 9/17/22, 12:05 PM
khematite said...: Setting aside the issue of manners, it did seem that Higgins asked a reasonable question about how the world could continue to function without petrochemical products. Salter's suggestion that it was Higgins' job, not hers, to propose a solution seemed to me at least odd. Coming to testify before Congress and having nothing better to say than "Something must be done" isn't a good look for people who purport to be Big Thinkers.; 9/17/22, 12:09 PM
Tina Trent said...: That's some pretty selective editing. The witness belongs to an organization that decries what they claim to be environmental racism. I would like to see the entire exchange. Boo is a dumb word to use, but if I had to listen to activists blather on and on about how I and my constituents are inherently racist and evil, I might hand a little attitude back, too.

AOC, however, was entirely out of line implying that the Congressman is dangerously sexist and, she pretends to fear, guilty of violent crimes against women. She's lying, too. This sort of exchange is not all that odd in state or national hearings (or coming from judges in courtrooms). She has said far worse in front of a microphone, and she bloody interned for Ted "waitress sandwich/Chappaquaddick Bridge" Kennedy. I have been verbally attacked in far worse ways in hearings, once from an "honored feminist" committee head, on television. He later apologized -- only in private of course, while his deeply personal defamation of me was on the news. I didn't whine about it. I was in the arena. Worse, I've seen chronically ill people in wheelchairs get treated like garbage in a hearing where everyone's hand was in the medical industry's pocket. They didn't complain either, though what they were lobbying for was literally to be treated like other humans by closing a loophole that allowed low-level technicians to administer dangerous drugs to them, whereas such an act performed on healthier people is grounds for a lawsuit.

That is real discrimination.

Politics is bloodsport: identity politics is fascism. Nancy Pelosi tearing up Trump's speech seemed to delight the commie performance artist from Westchester. Does Pelosi beat her husband in private?; 9/17/22, 12:15 PM
khematite said...: Apparently, it's ok for women to use the term "boo" and to use it condescendingly--so long as it's aimed at the President of the United States.

https://www.cnn.com/2016/09/27/politics/donna-brazile-russian-hackers; 9/17/22, 12:15 PM
Joe Smith said...: Anyone (like the witness) with the word 'justice' in her job title (other than cops) is automatically an idiot.

AOC needs to make some cocktails and calm down.

If she didn't have tits nobody would talk to her...; 9/17/22, 12:17 PM
Lincolntf said...: She never answered the question, and instead started with dumb, extremist green talking points. Because she has no answer. His question was simple, but the lady knows full well that she would be miserable, if not dead, without petrochemical products. I'm sure she'll be Tweeting all about it with smoke signals so as to avoid pollution. Oh wait, smoke signals are pollution, too, so maybe she'll just have to shut her pie-hole.; 9/17/22, 12:25 PM
Iman said...: She didn’t have an answer. They never do. They bring histrionics and heavy duty emotion, but they never have an answer.; 9/17/22, 12:28 PM
rhhardin said...: When women know something it's different from when men know something. With women it's more of a knowing feeling.; 9/17/22, 12:28 PM
Drago said...: Russia Collusion Truther and Hillary/FBI Hoax Dossier Dead Ender Inga: "He was a jerk, calling her “boo”, talking over her and only then did she raise her voice to be heard with him talking over her."

The New Soviet Democraticals, during public hearings, lied about Kavanaugh being a drunk and a mass rapist.

And Inga love, love, loved it.

Needs BS Civility Tag.; 9/17/22, 12:29 PM
Jake said...: Boo is a term of endearment.; 9/17/22, 12:55 PM
Buckwheathikes said...: AOC is the hottest Latinx being passed around by white men in DC, bro. Lay off her.; 9/17/22, 1:06 PM
Narayanan said...: R? Congressman was definitely boorish and foolish >> probly yells at his kids and wife
D! AOC was gracious and forceful; 9/17/22, 1:12 PM
Narayanan said...: if only you can disperse oil refineries throughout USA instead of leaving them in border states.; 9/17/22, 1:14 PM
JAORE said...: Perhaps if she had even attempted to answer his question instead of a hysterical (hee hee) rant....

Spewing talking points at ever increasing volume does no make for effective testimony. But it's about par for the left.; 9/17/22, 1:20 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Aren't we tired yet of that cheap trick of apologizing for what someone else said?

By the way, the woman was a twit.; 9/17/22, 1:21 PM
Narr said...: I missed the 'boo' in the excerpt but don't doubt he used it. In addition to the other etymologies suggested, it also is the diminutive form of "Boo-boo," Yogi's little friend.; 9/17/22, 1:21 PM
PB said...: Maybe if a witness actually, you know, answered the questions asked.; 9/17/22, 1:22 PM
Jersey Fled said...: Aren't we tired yet of that cheap trick of apologizing for what someone else said?

By the way, the woman was a twit.; 9/17/22, 1:24 PM
Earnest Prole said...: On the bright side he resisted the urge to call her "Sugar Tits"; 9/17/22, 1:26 PM
JAORE said...: if only you can disperse oil refineries throughout USA instead of leaving them in border states.

Martha's Vineyard sounds like a spot to erase a whole bunch of racism.; 9/17/22, 1:30 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger Inga said...

He was a jerk, calling her “boo”, talking over her and only then did she raise her voice to be heard with him talking over her.

The opinion of an idiot who knows no more about petrochemicals than that idiot witness.; 9/17/22, 1:31 PM
alanc709 said...: Dementia is rampant on the left, obviously. That woman has no clue what she's talking about.; 9/17/22, 1:35 PM
mikee said...: Everyone involved and everyone reading about this needs to go read, or re-read, Tom Wolfe's "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flack Catchers." The hearing is a perfect example of sound and fury, signifying nothing, and has been used for over half a century as a substitute for public discourse. It is meant to wavoid resolution of differences of political opinion and to prevent actually solving real problems.; 9/17/22, 1:42 PM
Yancey Ward said...: Inga has shit for her brains, too, but she fortunately also has no power.; 9/17/22, 1:46 PM
Unknown said...: What's the outrage about? Minorities & women going bezerk over being called a name akin to "honey"? Ann, move on boo.; 9/17/22, 1:48 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: Apparently it's fine for Salter to accuse Higgins' constituents (Big Oil!) of murder, and worse, the selective murder of black people, but it's forbidden for him to respond less than respectfully to her when she was reading from a script making such accusations.
Got it.; 9/17/22, 1:55 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Feminists(Leftist variety) - funny how weak they are when confronted with ideas that counter to their bullshit world view.

So much for being as strong as men.; 9/17/22, 2:27 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: Feminists(Leftist variety) - funny how weak they are when confronted with ideas that counter to their bullshit world view.

So much for being as strong as men.; 9/17/22, 2:27 PM
Tomcc said...: I can see myself responding the same way as the Congressman did. Outlandish claims supported by conjecture are exasperating. If your argument has merit, state it and be prepared to defend it. You won't win converts by demanding the destruction of civilization.; 9/17/22, 2:29 PM
paminwi said...: Why the hell do women fade under tough questioning?
Geez, you want to be treated equally it but when some guy asks you tough questions you get weak kneed and can’t answer coherently!
She had to have known she was going he asked these kinds of questions. Did she not prepare or she she assume she could blather and not be called on it?
The congressman did nothing wrong. (And if it took 3 times to hear “boo” then people are using that a the talking point rather than this woman was a idiot.); 9/17/22, 2:31 PM
alanc709 said...: "Inga said...
“I would have told her she had shit for her brains, so I think Higgins was being far too courteous.”

Good thing you’re just an internet commenter and without power"

Ditto. You are by far the most ignorant poster on this blog, and you never lack for a comment to expose that ignorance yet again.; 9/17/22, 2:32 PM
Jim at said...: He was unprofessional, and as I said, a jerk.

In other words, he was acting like your typical leftist.

Tough shit.

We've been nice to you assholes for far too long.

We simply wanted to be left alone, but you wouldn't allow that.
So, now you get assholes and jerks in response.

And you have no one but yourselves to blame.

Tough. Shit.; 9/17/22, 2:33 PM
Wince said...: Temujin said...
It's cajun. It's a term of endearment referring to a child or someone you love.

"Kindly speak English and drop the vernacular."; 9/17/22, 2:36 PM
Jon Burack said...: He asked her a very specific question and an important one that the climatistas simply do not want to address. Because it's hard and requires having actually THOUGHT about the issue. She diverted, and in a tone of anger (she was the first in the exchange to emote that way) to a totally irrelevant posturing bit of moralism. She is there to assist a congressional investigation. She had an obligation to address the questions she was asked. She deserved every bit of contempt that she got and more. As for AOC, what is there to say that has not been said to a million ROFLs over the past years now?; 9/17/22, 2:36 PM
Mike said...: My hearing is bad--and I didn't hear the word "boo". Although I also don't know why the term is pejorative--maybe somebody smarter than me can explain. Other commenters have said it's "cajun" and maybe if that's what Congressman was saying it was a demeaning or condescending thing. OTOH the elites of this country do specialize in condescending to the deplorables.

But looking at the exchange almost made me long for the not so good old days of Federal District Judge Andy Hauk in Los Angeles. You could sell popcorn to the spectators in Hauk's courtroom (and asbestos underwear to the lawyer or witness who elicited his ire). If Andy had been in the Congressman's position with this witness he might have come out of his chair, leaped over the bench and bopped her upside the head with his gavel. I appeared in Hauk's courtroom a few times, but luckily enough never became one of his targets.; 9/17/22, 2:40 PM
Gahrie said...: I missed where he called her a deplorable and a bitter clinger....; 9/17/22, 2:44 PM
Gahrie said...: I missed where he called her a deplorable and a bitter clinger...; 9/17/22, 2:44 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: These leftists dumb-grrrls want to destroy everything... all while THEY still have access to the petroleum products they so despise.
Meanwhile - rare earth minerals get a pass. Solar panels made in China - with toxic down-stream cancer causing run-off - these dumb lefty grrrls have no clue nor do they care.

Europe tried going green - and it isn't working. Will American leftist dumb-grrrls figure it out?
Nah - too much Fauci bureaucratic-Royalty Solyndra grift to pocket.

We call this hypocrisy.; 9/17/22, 2:51 PM
DKWalser said...: I didn't hear him call her boo. Instead I heard him say, "Oh, boo." in response to her nonsensical response to his question. I find myself muttering, "Oh, boo." with some frequency. It's a catchall expression of mild frustration. "Oh, gee whiz" conveys a similar feeling. In this case, I think he went with "Oh, boo" in lieu of the stronger (but more accurate) "Oh, bull shit!"; 9/17/22, 2:53 PM
madAsHell said...: Shouldn't Ms. Salter apologize for being a waste of time??

.....and who in the hell is paying her a salary??

We visited Alexandria a few years ago, and I was impressed by all the walk-up offices just off King Street. All the doors were decorated with impressive sounding Institutes, Foundations, and Societies.

I remember thinking.......my tax dollars at work!!; 9/17/22, 3:01 PM
WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...: AOC ====

"Well I never!"; 9/17/22, 3:02 PM
Darkisland said...: Buckwheathikes said...

AOC is the hottest Latinx

STOP IT WITH THE FUCKING RACISM, BUCKY!!!

Ann, if he or anyone else had call the witness the n-word, especially if they had spelled it out like this, you would have deleted the comment.

Why do you permit this slur to be posted?

John Henry; 9/17/22, 3:21 PM
Mary Beth said...: You all need to stop disrespecting his culture and allow him to speak in the vernacular with which he is comfortable. We no longer expect standard English vocabulary or speech patterns from our politicians. Too undemocratic.; 9/17/22, 3:26 PM
Jupiter said...: " ... the lady knows full well that she would be miserable, if not dead, without petrochemical products."

I doubt it. I doubt she knows how much of anything is made.; 9/17/22, 3:26 PM
Jupiter said...: "Good thing you’re just an internet commenter and without power."

So that means he can't be racist, right? Good to know!; 9/17/22, 3:38 PM
dbp said...: Witnesses are called by Congress to testify, which means to answer questions posed by members of Congress. The witness was way out of line and should have been ordered to answer the question of STFU. She forgets herself. She is there to answer questions, not to lecture to elected lawmakers. AOC was her usual, overly emotional and virtue-signaling self.; 9/17/22, 3:42 PM
Sebastian said...: So, progs, what is the answer to his actual question?; 9/17/22, 4:09 PM
Leland said...: I didn't hear the boo. What it seems to me is that AOC demands an apology if any man dares debate a woman in Congress. I don't understand why she sees women as weak and needing men's apologies.; 9/17/22, 4:12 PM
Mr. Majestyk said...: Boo hoo!; 9/17/22, 4:19 PM
Ampersand said...: That clip is a Rorschach test for current ideology.
Unrelated, I detest the disingenuousness of apologizing for one's political enemies.; 9/17/22, 4:21 PM
retail lawyer said...: Man, I'm really lost here. Is "boo" a bad word? Bad only somewhere? Even worse than when the military officer addressed Barbara Boxer as "ma'am".; 9/17/22, 4:25 PM
Robert Cook said...: Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our modern society...which is why they will eventually be the death of modern society.; 9/17/22, 4:26 PM
JRoberts said...: RE: AOC
I keep asking myself when her district will dispose of this drama queen, but then realize that most of her constituents are probably young drama queens just like her.; 9/17/22, 4:30 PM
JRoberts said...: RE: AOC
I keep asking myself when her district will dispose of this drama queen, but then realize that most of her constituents are probably young drama queens just like her.; 9/17/22, 4:31 PM
JRoberts said...: RE: AOC
I keep asking myself when her district will dispose of this drama queen, but then realize that most of her constituents are probably young drama queens just like her.; 9/17/22, 4:31 PM
Kevin said...: It's cajun.

When a person of color uses terms from their culture, we're supposed to respect it.

When a person of pallor uses terms from their culture, it's disrespectful to persons of color.

This is commonly known as "diversity".; 9/17/22, 4:32 PM
Kansas City said...: Cortez is dumb, but she is a gifted and charismatic communicator on any victim issues.

What does Boo mean in the context he used it? Just a shorthand way of expressing pity in a disagreement?; 9/17/22, 4:34 PM
Narr said...: WEST TX, did you really mean to say Higgins' constituents are Big Oil?

Donors maybe, but his constituents are supposed to be the voters.

Someone reminded me recently of what used to be said about Lucius Burch, a legendary and legendarily scrappy lawyer here--"If I ordered a freight car load of Sonsabitches and they sent me a freight car with nothing in it but Lucius Burch, I'd consider my money well spent."; 9/17/22, 4:48 PM
Jamie said...: It's cajun. It's a term of endearment referring to a child or someone you love.

"Boo," from "beau," "lovely." "Cher," "dear." So it might have been informal, and it might have been talking to her as if she were a younger friend or even a child (he'd already referred to her as "young lady" IIRC), but it wasn't disrespectful in the way that AOC seemed to think, and it certainly wasn't a signifier of "violence against women."; 9/17/22, 4:57 PM
bagoh20 said...: As a terrorist, threat to democracy and a semi-fascist, I want to ask that I be called "Boo" by the boring, back to normal grownup uniter President of the United States.

Apology? Yea, the voters of AOC's district owe us all one.

Have you ever seen more seething sexist partisan hatred than you see when any of the squad are on their soapbox? You can see in their eyes, that they would have no problem lining you up against a bloody wall and sending your family the bill for the bullets.; 9/17/22, 5:21 PM
Cato said...: AOC apologizes for fair questions. What world is this?.; 9/17/22, 5:24 PM
Michael K said...: Blogger Robert Cook said...

Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our modern society...which is why they will eventually be the death of modern society.

You can believe that if you are ignorant of all science. The death of modern society will be progs like you.; 9/17/22, 5:38 PM
Spiros said...: AOC should write a book about racial etiquette. First rule, all Whites must be agreeable and non-challenging when in the presence of Blacks.; 9/17/22, 5:51 PM
Drago said...: Robert Cook: "Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our modern society...which is why they will eventually be the death of modern society."

Sure Science Boy, sure.; 9/17/22, 5:57 PM
Drago said...: What did the commies use for light before candles?

Electricity.; 9/17/22, 6:07 PM
M said...: He’s stating facts and she is hysterical claiming oil is “KILLING BLACK PEOPLE”. Ok, boo. Or are you just a histrionic personality who hides their lack of useful skills behind “advocacy” and hatred of white (and likely Jewish, regardless of their skin tones) people?; 9/17/22, 6:13 PM
Maynard said...: Fossil fuels are the lifeblood of our modern society...which is why they will eventually be the death of modern society.

Cookie, It has been well established that Socialism (in all its popular forms) is the death of society. However, you cling to it as if it were a life preserver.; 9/17/22, 6:22 PM
Spiros said...: We need cement, steel, plastics, ammonia and fuel for our cars. We get this stuff from oil. This is not controversial. Consider Michael Crichton's "The Andromeda Strain" (extraterrestrial "oil-eating" microbe causes the collapse of society) or John Varley's Slow Apocalypse (a mad scientist cures our addiction for oil!).; 9/17/22, 6:29 PM
Dave64 said...: Move along, nothing to see! Know it all brat got a lesson, and another know it all brat had a temper tantrum. The Truth hurts!; 9/17/22, 6:40 PM
Rollo said...: Live and learn. I barely learned that "Boo" means "boyfriend" or "girlfriend." Now I learn that it may be from the French word "beau."

Politicians and bureaucrats have always been assholes. That's what we pay them for. Politicians and bureaucrats lie. That's also what we pay them for.; 9/17/22, 7:11 PM
M Jordan said...: AOC has a gift, that’s obvious. But she really is a moron. That too is obvious.

So let’s sum this up: AOC is a gifted moron.; 9/17/22, 8:01 PM
Lincolntf said...: That broad probably has more petrochemicals in her hair treatments than I do in my car. Bitch, you wanna be real, be REAL.; 9/17/22, 8:06 PM
West TX Intermediate Crude said...: WEST TX, did you really mean to say Higgins' constituents are Big Oil?

Yes, I did.
I don't know where you live or if you have any experience living or working in the "oil patch," but if you did you would know that the petrochemical industry is intimately entwined with just about every aspect of life in districts such as the ones Higgins represents.
By "Big Oil," I did not mean Exxon and Chevron. I meant the entire industry, which offers employment, taxes for the schools, community support, and not incidentally all of the products that the congressman mentioned. (Even the oat milk in AOC's latte got to the local Starbucks by a fossil fueled truck.)
The petrochemical industry is to Texas and Louisiana what technology is to Silicon Valley or the financial industry is to Manhattan.
The congressman represents the interests of his constituents, which is very dependent, either directly or indirectly, on "Big Oil."; 9/17/22, 9:09 PM
Wilbur said...: "Boo" has been a common term for boyfriend or girlfriend in the black community for a few decades. It has leaked into the rest of US culture, as such terms often do.

To use it in this context is condescending. She deserved it.

He should have just called her a mooncalf, a jabbernowl, a luddy-duddy.; 9/18/22, 3:17 AM
stlcdr said...: Politicians always trying to claim moral (sic) high ground, to deflect from the issue.; 9/18/22, 8:09 AM
Butkus51 said...: only women bleed; 9/18/22, 8:23 AM
Butkus51 said...: only women bleed; 9/18/22, 8:23 AM
Narr said...: Thanks, WEST TX. I don't live near oil or have any relationship with it except as a consumer.

Nice clarification.; 9/18/22, 10:28 AM