.MaddowBlog: After he heckled Barack Obama in 2009, Joe Wilson faced Republican pushback and quickly expressed regret. With Lauren Boebert, things are ... different.
and Wilson was wrong, but as a political matter, it was a breach in protocol that stunned much of the political world. Then-Sen. John McCain, among others, quickly condemned the congressman’s antics, and no GOP leaders defended Wilson’s heckling.
The House nevertheless formally rebuked the South Carolinian less than a week after the presidential address — and seven GOP lawmakersIn many ways, Rep. Lauren Boebert’s antics last night were considerably worse. “One being stationed at bases, breathing in toxic smoke from burn pits. Many of you have been there. I’ve been in and out of Iraq and Afghanistan over 40 times. These burn pits that incinerate waste, the waste of war — medical and hazardous material, jet fuel and so much more. And they came home, many of the world’s fittest and best trained warriors in the world, never the same. Headaches. Numbness. Dizziness. A cancer that would put them in a flag-draped coffin. I know.
It was at this point when the right-wing Colorado congresswoman thought it’d be a good idea to start heckling the president. In fact, as Biden referenced the cancer-stricken troops that ended up in flag-draped coffins, Boebert interjected, “You put them in, 13 of them.”
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