Boxer gets snotty with general: Address me as “senator,” not “ma’am”
posted at 7:21 pm on June 17, 2009 by Allahpundit
I don’t know how else to read this except as a gratuitous slur that he’s refusing to acknowledge her title because she’s a woman, as though he’s Col. Jessep in “A Few Good Men” or something. What are the odds that a guy who’s spent decades addressing his superiors as “sir” would address a woman senator as “ma’am”? I actually went back and skipped around in the video of the rest of the hearing to see how he interacted with male senators and caught him answering Vitter’s questions with “yes, sir” a number of times. Is Boxer’s ego so fragile and her method so imperious that she’d publicly humiliate a guy whom she has no reason to believe is being anything less than respectful?
Answer: Given the power trip she once pulled on Inhofe at a hearing with Al Gore, yeah. She’s that imperious. Click the image to watch.
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I like your style.
ladyingray on June 17, 2009 at 7:57 PM
HAHA she reminds me of those snobs from that “South Park” episode who sniff their own farts!!
bagadeez04 on June 17, 2009 at 7:57 PM
I’m old enough to remember the good old days when she be hard working all right, in the kitchen or washing/ironing clothes.
Best of all her mouth would be shut.
Jeff from WI on June 17, 2009 at 7:58 PM
Yes ma’am Senator Boxer ma’am.
Stephen M on June 17, 2009 at 7:59 PM
t must have been about ten or fifteen years ago, when I was having lunch at this restaurant in DC, and the waitress kept correcting me when I addressed her as “ma’am,” insisting I call her by her name. Apparently “ma’am” is some sign of domesticity, of subservience. Or something.
In the south, ma’am is as common as y’all.
txag92 on June 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Oh that would have been…awesome.
baldilocks on June 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Ha ha, she doesn’t fart. That would promote global warming. She probably has a plumbers plug inserted.
bigtexmex on June 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Yes ma’am, Senator.
paulsur on June 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I believe the actual military protocol is to formally address a female as “ma’am” or by her rank, and that either are acceptable.
The officer is doing what he has learned to do, just as snippy Boxer (what a dog) is doing what she has learned to do. and, with a brain as capable as hers, I am certain her ego is (or should be) exceptionally fragile. She needs that title to justify her heartbeat, not because of what she has inside that is worth any respect. And she knows it deep down.
Of the two, only the officer deserves any respect or has worked hard to earn anything.
Harry Schell on June 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM
These are the people spending your money. They don’t care about anything but their own power and authority.
ThackerAgency on June 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM
You what I’m thinking? I’m thinking that Senator Asshat hasn’t been laid in awhile, and she’s pissed that a fine man like the General would have nothing to do with her. But, I could be wrong.
Andy in Agoura Hills on June 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM
of course we don’t expect it from Ed, except — it is quite a cerebral remark in this instance when you consider the fact that “boxers” are quite ostensibly “asshats”
kscheuller on June 17, 2009 at 8:02 PM
“Senator Box now that you’re pissed off at me for not referring to your title I guess a BJ is out of the question, right?”
MaiDee on June 17, 2009 at 7:49 PM
HEHE ! I just choked on my coffee but it was worth it . that was funny.
LSUMama on June 17, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Democrat politician despises military… who knew???
Actually the General doesn’t have to call her anything, she’s not in his chain of command. Just the cash register.
Classless act from a classless act.
Hog Wild on June 17, 2009 at 8:02 PM
I’ll add that when I was growing up, if I was in trouble, if I didn’t say ‘Yes Sir, No Sir, Yes Ma’am, No Ma’am’, my dad would beat the crap out of me for being disrespectful.
I learned quickly how to respect people by saying Sir/Ma’am and still do even when people ask me not to.
ThackerAgency on June 17, 2009 at 8:02 PM
Proof that a woman can be a d*ck. Equal opportunity.
AUINSC on June 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Don’t call me ma’am. Call me drunk off my ass with power and my plumbers plug is working overtime today. I have bad breath. Got a breath mint.
bigtexmex on June 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Or shuffled off to a convent on an isolated island.
Dark-Star on June 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM
I would have gently said “no, ma’am” and let her head explode.
jimmy2shoes on June 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM
Are we supposed to be shocked?
Upstater85 on June 17, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Had it been me, and only because of her smugness, I would’ve answered her rebuke with, “aw come on little lady, don’t get your panties in a bunch.”
Which, by the way, is entirely out of character for me. My Marine Corps background still has me saying ‘ma’am‘ when I address the fairer sex.
BKeyser on June 17, 2009 at 8:04 PM
I know I’m going to catch hell for this… But has anyone noticed that we began our decline into autocracy and socialism around the same time women got the vote?
/ducks
(not saying I’m against women voting, but look at the way the left sells it’s agenda: always with emotion, and in a feminine way)
wildcat84 on June 17, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Senator is not a rank.
But yes, both are acceptable.
TTheoLogan on June 17, 2009 at 8:05 PM
“Senator” Boxer owes the general an apology. That was very disrespectful of her.
cirrus on June 17, 2009 at 8:05 PM
And it is just a title. California has no real senators.
InterestedObserver on June 17, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Good Lord that woman is obnoxious! The general was a perfectly respectful gentleman. She should be kissing “his” arse.
sinsing on June 17, 2009 at 8:06 PM
My friend, you have just uttered the most inconvenient truth of the last two centuries…even bigger than the ones that taxpayer-funded handouts encourage welfare whoring and federally-enforced diversity is a retarded idea.
Dark-Star on June 17, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Or he could have answered: “Well cupcakes, I thought about addressing you as ‘sir’ but decided to give you the benefit of the doubt. Now run along and get the men some coffee.”
rbj on June 17, 2009 at 8:08 PM
He should have come back with “Let me guess: you’re on the rag, Senator?”
Splashman on June 17, 2009 at 8:08 PM
I see nothing here to suggest she’d be worse than Boxer.
So better to stick with Boxer? Great thinking.
Infidoll on June 17, 2009 at 8:08 PM
Hoe did California elect two
twatstwits like Boxer and Fienstein. I mean really. What drugs are you guys using over there? What really hacks me off is that you won’t share them.bigtexmex on June 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM
Raggedy Man runs Bartertown!
Limerick on June 17, 2009 at 8:09 PM
The same time Oliver North publishes a book honoring our men and women in the service this hag tries to dress down a General.
fourdeucer on June 17, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Well, with a little help maybe we could get my California brethren to elect… Well… ME….
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 8:10 PM
As an officer in the Army (and a woman, at that) I ALWAYS address superiors (though this woman is not) and civilians by either “sir” or “ma’am”. This is ingrained into our every fiber. I met a few senators (McCain and Clinton) and a govenor (Palin) on my last deployment and not a single one of them objected to being addressed by “sir” or “ma’am”.
olycon on June 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM
She doesn’t deserve to be addressed as “ma’am”. I can’t say what I would address her as if I ever meet here, but it starts with a “c”.
SouthernGent on June 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I wish they would.
atheling on June 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I just remembered, I have a sticker on my motorcycle helmet that would have been a great retort:
Content Warning.
“Who lit the fuse on your tampon”?
Hog Wild on June 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM
I went right off Curb Your Enthusiasm when Larry David had the bad taste to include her in an episode. She was a terrible actor and ruined it.
Sharke on June 17, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Just goes to prove that the left despises the military. Her contempt just drips from her lying, liberal lips.
afotia on June 17, 2009 at 8:12 PM
Have you ever noticed that liberal men are… effeminate?
That is no accident. Leftism just simply isn’t a mindset that is compatible with natural maleness.
A real man loves and cares for his family. Enough to go out there and put it on the line to earn food for his family. He doesn’t go and whine and cry for others to do it for him. Conservative men do the former, the effeminate liberal does the latter.
wildcat84 on June 17, 2009 at 8:12 PM
You know, this ticks me off no end. She is not in the chain of command in any way. She holds no rank on him, and as such, is not even entitled to “Ma’am” in military parlance. In civilian lingo, it is polite to refer to people as “Sir” or “Ma’am” – but I will be da>>ed if ANYBODY can claim a “Title” in the United States. If that’s how people address them, then whoopie – but there is no claim to that right under our constitution.
TubbyHubby on June 17, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Amen! Follow him on Facebook and make sure Babs NEVER is addressed as senator again.
Branch Rickey on June 17, 2009 at 8:13 PM
Boxer and Pelosi are backed by thousands of military haters.
That is why hussein is totus….military haters.
scum
I am glad cal. is broke…can’t wait till the natives gets restless on em’, kind of like that scene in the parking lot after a win no less…wait until their welfare is removed…heh
nondhimmie on June 17, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Where can I get this bumper sticker?
baldilocks on June 17, 2009 at 8:14 PM
Love it!
Splashman on June 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Hey, this is not a free pass to put me back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant, just because of this asshat.
Pipe down old men!
HornetSting on June 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Only if you are looking to be the typical liberturd and be offended; most women and glad to have respect shown to them.
Branch Rickey on June 17, 2009 at 8:15 PM
Winner. Everyone else, go home. :)
HornetSting on June 17, 2009 at 8:16 PM
As a Marine…. she can kiss my ass.
MNDavenotPC on June 17, 2009 at 8:16 PM
Say we were to pick up 15 senate seats, all of them of like Carly Fiorina, who is also like Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe. Say we were to take back the house, again, electing similar people.
What good would that do for us? We’d still be marching towards socialism, just slightly slower. We’d still be getting Obamacare, just slightly watered down.
And even if it were only a couple of them, we’d be dealing with them as a cadre of traitors on every issue.
Nope, enough. There needs to be a line of demarcation between the parties. The GOP is the conservative party. The democrats are the place to be if you are liberal.
wildcat84 on June 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM
Bottom line: Shut up… I have given you an option. Quit complaining and act, if you don’t act, you have no right to complain.
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM
See my post doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 8:17 PM
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 8:18 PM
She “worked so hard” to get that title?
Please.
The woman barely breaks a sweat on election day.
The Ugly American on June 17, 2009 at 8:19 PM
doriangray~ You might get elected if you learn to spell “bored” correctly.
College Prof on June 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Yup..That’ll do!
Jeff from WI on June 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM
150 comments. And so far not one fool among us.
Loxodonta on June 17, 2009 at 8:20 PM
She is full of herself. The General deserves respect not her. What has SHE done? -In CA for example? A BROKE State perhaps?
What an embarrising woman. She owes him an apology.
He has kept her safe and kept her freedom that lets her yap off. She should bow down to HIM.
rlongstrat on June 17, 2009 at 8:21 PM
Why do we Southerners use ‘ma’am’ and ‘miss’?
Because Southern men know who really rules the planet, women. If that isn’t deferential enough for Barbara then she can sit on her ‘senator’.
Limerick on June 17, 2009 at 8:21 PM
If my spelling of bored/board is enough to keep you from voting for me, then you deserve the Obama’s and Boxers of this world.
doriangrey on June 17, 2009 at 8:21 PM
You get the respect you deserve Senator.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mugsy/1796808362/
diogenes on June 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Barbra Boxer is an asshole. She is arrogant as the day is long. Watching that clip has made my blood pressure move dangerously high. How does she have this job? PRETARRODACIOUS!
jonas131 on June 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM
This video should be shown to every guy under the age of 30.
This is what she’ll be like starting around 50. They all will.
They all think they’re some queen and that you should kiss their keister.
Jeff from WI on June 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Complete and utter embarassment the great state co California deserves far better representation than the hags on the hill we currently have to endure and embarassingly subject the rest of the nation to.
On behalf of all normal, reasonable Californians please accept my apologie for the behavior of these embarassing freaking’ hags.
Ohh and asshats everywhere are QUITE pissed at you now Ed. Why did you have to throw all the asshats under the bus like that?
StockOption on June 17, 2009 at 8:22 PM
She can’t handle the truth.
BuckeyeSam on June 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM
Ma’am can be a name of respect, just like “sir”.
He isn’t addressed as General all the time, and you can bet he worked hard to get his title.
Many of his men call him sir.
She should learn that not everyone is from California…other parts of the country are just fine with being called “ma’am”.
right2bright on June 17, 2009 at 8:23 PM
OMG, I just fell of my chair! LOL!
ctmom on June 17, 2009 at 8:24 PM
The irony is she said “you know”, instead of “General would you….”
He worked hard for that title of General, “you know” just doesn’t cut it.
right2bright on June 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Senator Snotty works for me.
Blake on June 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM
Menopause doesn’t come close to excusing that behavior.
fourdeucer on June 17, 2009 at 8:25 PM
How to win supporters and influence voters!
/sarc
Branch Rickey on June 17, 2009 at 8:26 PM
I was told to call my female superiors “Ma’am” when I was in the Corps…… Obama Boxer, Pelosi all are imperial pieces of crap.
MNDavenotPC on June 17, 2009 at 8:26 PM
As Baldi points out, Sir/M’am is a traditional sign of respect within the military. Boxer was too out of touch to realize it.
So next time,Col. Jessep, try this:
petefrt on June 17, 2009 at 8:26 PM
How many phone books is she sitting on??
WhatsRight on June 17, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Do you even have room on your car, because of all your anti military bumper stickers?
TTheoLogan on June 17, 2009 at 8:27 PM
Yes
NoFanofLibs on June 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM
This just proves that our Congress people need a big reminder that THEY WORK FOR US. How dare she?
ctmom on June 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM
It’s not a bumper sticker, it’s a helmet sticker, it’s about 1/2 inch by 3 inches in size.
Go to any American made motorcyle shop that is not an athorized Harley Davidson dealer, they’ll have names like American Iron, Custom Bikes, Chopper (something). They have a vast assortment of helmet stickers. There may be a bumper sticker out there that say’s that, but I don’t know where to find it.
Hog Wild on June 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM
From now on she merits being addressed in the third person.
Chris_Balsz on June 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM
He should have said “Yes Ma’am I can”.
the Coondawg on June 17, 2009 at 8:29 PM
ALL fellow Californians…we need to call Boxer and call her ma’am and then tell her to cut taxes in our state.
rlongstrat on June 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM
You of course, are making the assumption that “she” was ever feminine enough to ovulate in the first place…
wildcat84 on June 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Rush has a skit where someone asks: Why does Barbara Boxer always have such a sour expression?
Answer: BECAUSE SHE’S GOT HER THONG ON!
fulldroolcup on June 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Hey! Give fair warning, I nearly choked on my food!
ladyingray on June 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Chuck Devore should already be making campaign commercials against her using that clip:
http://www.chuckdevore.com/index.asp
nickj116 on June 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Baldilocks tends to stock his car bumper with a bunch of anti-military propaganda. Since a lot of bikers are former military, he’d likely get his skinny rear handed to him if he drove up near one of those places.
TTheoLogan on June 17, 2009 at 8:31 PM
Helmets…We don’t need no stinking helmets!
Jeff from WI on June 17, 2009 at 8:32 PM
What an arrogant military hating twit…sorry did not watch the vid…no need.
d1carter on June 17, 2009 at 8:32 PM
I’m not sure how Boxer and Feinstein get elected every term… It’s a shame.
shooten on June 17, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Boxer, another reason California should just slide off into the Pacific.
Jeff from WI on June 17, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Boxer so mimics Pelosi in mannerisms,,speech patterns, voice inflections, hair styles, etc that it is rather pathetic. I really can’t stand looking and listening to her .
Itchee Dryback on June 17, 2009 at 8:33 PM
That’s exactly why baldilocks likes her.
TTheoLogan on June 17, 2009 at 8:33 PM
Some Democrat Senators are just liberal because that’s where the power is.
But not Barbara Boxer. I’ve met the
ladyairhead. She is a genuine idiot, through and through. Not just an idealistic fool; I’m talking an IQ in the 70′s. Thick as a post. Even other Democrat Senators make fun of her, and that’s saying an awful lot.logis on June 17, 2009 at 8:34 PM
You of course, are making the assumption that “she” was ever feminine enough to ovulate in the first place…
wildcat84 on June 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM
You are right the name Barbarah doesn’t infer feminine in CA.
fourdeucer on June 17, 2009 at 8:34 PM
Ummmmm……..er……….that is Ma’am to you.
Limerick on June 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM
Are you retarded, or do you just play one on the intermeshes?
Itchee Dryback on June 17, 2009 at 8:35 PM
I know many members of the military, and almost without exception they always address civilians as “sir” or “ma’am”, and it’s out of respect.
And I always address them the same way, also out of respect, with one exception: Sergeants :) You don’t call a sergeant “sir”, or “ma’am” you call them “Seargant”, they work for a living :)
It’s shocking how much military people appreciate being treated with respect and deference by a civilian like myself in public, depressingly so, this should be the NORM, not the exception.
wildcat84 on June 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Yes Sen Botoxer.
tarpon on June 17, 2009 at 8:36 PM
Yes!
Ma’am Boxer is one of my senators. She is never around, I can’t remember a moment where she has stood up for or shouted out anything pertinent about the state of my State.
In my opinion she is so caught up being a senator that that is all she is, a senator.
FireBlogger on June 17, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Or, the other option is, baldilocks has a history of attacking the military on here.
TTheoLogan on June 17, 2009 at 8:37 PM
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