Boxer moved to the Senate a generation ago as female candidates rode a burst of popularity, she noted in her official farewell address Wednesday. She departs just after the defeat of the first female presidential nominee.
\nShe entered public life when it was considered a \u201cnoble\u201d profession, she reminded listeners, and will leave just before the inauguration of a man who succeeded in large part by denouncing politicians.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
The sooner that idea is mocked out of existence, the better we all will be.<\/p>\n
Representing the people isn’t dishonorable. \u00a0Turning government into a cash cow for one’s self and one’s special interests\u00a0is no more “honorable” than being a pimp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Barbara Boxer is leaving Congress. Unfortunately, that departure is a result of being feted at a retirement party, rather than frog-walked out of her office by the FBI. But gone is gone – not that it matters much given California’s delegation. \u00a0 \u00a0It remains blinkered far-left, and is still home to some of the our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war","category-democrats","category-entitled-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61282,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61269\/revisions\/61282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}