It’s not exactly a news flash that Lauren Boebert, the carpetbagging canoodler, is a true MAGA believer, an avowed Trumpist and a right-wing loon.
She has the hats to prove it, not to mention a pair of knockoff gold Trump Sneakers, which she admitted were made in China.
And so as we watch — for some of us, with more than a little glee — a slice of MAGA Republicans pull away from Donald Trump on issues like the war in Iran and on warrantless FISA snooping on Americans, Boebert is right there with the MAGA rebels. Just as she was on the Epstein files.
You could say she’s gone all ’60s on the war in Iran — “I mean, I have military-age kids, and I don’t want to see this,” Boebert said. “I don’t want to see anybody’s child have to go there and have the potential of losing their life.”
And, as an America Firster, she says she’s a “hard no” on any supplemental funding for the war. With its slim majority and the threat of losing more Republican votes, the House GOP hasn’t been able to bring the $200 billion military funding bill to a vote.
Meanwhile, on FISA, Republicans took a 2 a.m. vote Friday trying to sneak Trump’s reauthorization of FISA Section 702 through the House. The main argument is over warrantless spying on Americans, which, just guessing here, most Americans oppose.
In 2020, Trump also opposed FISA’s Section 702 — that was back in the “Russia Russia Russia Hoax” days — condemning it for its part in the “greatest political crime” in U.S. history. You know his problem with the law. It was used against him.
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SUBSCRIBENow, though, he’s all for it, posting that “I am willing to risk the giving up of my Rights and Privileges as a Citizen for our Great Military and Country!” He’s also ready to give up my rights and yours.
Boebert was apparently unmoved.
When the bill was first passed in 2008, she wrote, we thought we were getting (fictional TV character) Jack Bauer and instead got (prosecutor) Jack Smith.
At 1:30 a.m., Boebert spoke against the bill and in defense of the Fourth Amendment, saying, “We are here to defend the Constitution … I’m not letting even my own party jam this through tonight.”
Twenty Republicans joined Democrats in voting against Trump’s “clean authorization,” bill. The bill failed, and House Speaker Mike Johnson had to settle for a 10-day extension and another round of embarrassment.
In a New York Times op-ed column Friday, Sens. Mike Lee, R-Hard-Right-Wing, and Dick Durbin, D-Institutional Party Leader, joined to condemn the FISA bill, saying it’s one thing they can agree on.
Here’s a taste from the column, which advocates for a bill Lee and Durbin are co-sponsoring: “Predictably, without a requirement for court approval of these searches, abuses have been rampant. As a recent report from the Brennan Center for Justice highlighted, F.B.I. agents in recent years have searched for the communications of ‘protesters across the political spectrum; members of Congress; a congressional chief of staff; a state court judge; multiple U.S. government officials, journalists and political commentators; and 19,000 donors to a political campaign.’ In a time of extreme partisanship, these abuses have provoked bipartisan outrage.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
It’s strange to see Republicans, other than Rep. Thom Tillis and Sen. Rand Paul, standing up to Trump, but there may be a trend at work here.
Trump is forever giving his own party chances to criticize him and his erratic behavior, but, if there is criticism, it’s usually muted.
I mean, you’d think all of the Christian nationalist caucus would be loudly (instead of quietly) rebelling against the Trump Jesus posting — while conservative Catholics, who have been steadily trending Trump, can’t be happy with his feud with the pope. Or, for that matter, with JD Vance, a recent Catholic convert, implying that he knows more about Catholic theology than the pope.
But this break with Trump isn’t about his megalomania. It’s about policy and how the president, whose core ideology is whatever pops into his mind at the moment, is hearing it from America Firsters and the right-wing branch of civil libertarians.
Some are suggesting this is part of a MAGA breakup, but I think that may be more than a little wishcasting. Certainly, Republicans are quite concerned about Trump’s disappearing poll numbers and the real chance they might get wiped out in the midterms. One pundit said the party is frantic. They ought to be.
Just look to 2028, when MAGA will have to coalesce — if we can assume there’s an election— around a candidate who is not Trump. I’d be frantic, too, if I were a Republican and saw Vance the Unlikable as the probable frontrunner.
Where you’re really seeing the split with Trump is the large America First wing of MAGA media, starting with Tucker Carlson, who called the attack on Iran “absolutely disgusting and evil.” Others chimed in, including Joe Rogan, leading Trump to post, in one of his late-night rage tweets, that these were “dumb” people and “losers.”
Meanwhile, we’ve watched the breakup between Trump and former MAGA ally Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has gone as far as to call for Trump’s removal from office over his threats against Iran to “wipe out a whole civilization.” Trump, in turn, called her a traitor.
As far as I know, Trump hasn’t criticized Boebert, who remains a strong ally. Maybe that’s because Boebert doesn’t directly criticize Trump. She goes after the Republican party instead.
And when she had a chance to really stand up to Trump on the war, she backed down on the vote to restrain the president when the House voted on a War Powers Resolution, which calls for an end to the war unless Congress votes to approve it.
The vote would have forced the House to bring the measure to the floor. It failed — by one vote. You could put that on Maine’s Jared Golden, the only Democrat who voted against the resolution. Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie was the lone Republican who voted for it.
But one Republican abstained. Three anti-this-war Republicans, including Boebert, failed to show up for the vote. She later said, if she had been there, she would have voted with the president “this time.”
Democrats will give her more chances to explain what “this time” means. If the war hasn’t ended by May 2 — call me a skeptic here about Trump’s latest declaration that the war is about to end — the War Resolution Act requires a vote of Congress to continue the war.
I’m guessing that if Trump walks away from the ceasefire, we would see a much larger slice of MAGA Republicans — including Boebert — voting against him.
And we wouldn’t even have to spy on them to watch it happen.
Mike Littwin has been a columnist for too many years to count. He has covered Dr. J, four presidential inaugurations, six national conventions and countless brain-numbing speeches in the New Hampshire and Iowa snow. Sign up for Mike’s newsletter.
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