In what has become a well publicized event this past week Barbara Boxer the junior United States Senator from California admonished a Brigadier General during a Senate hearing for calling her Ma’am. Boxer, upon being respectfully called Ma’am by the General, asked that he please refer to her as Senator, “a title that she had worked very hard to attain.” The Senator’s remarks are reflective of an individual that is holding herself above the purview of the public she has sworn to serve.
This nation, which was founded as a result of a revolution against a monarchy and a royal class, has a penchant for creating royalty out of members of our political class. One need only observe the way our media has treated the Obama’s as if the were King Barack and Queen Michelle even to the degree of instilling deity like qualities upon them. Is it any wonder then that Barbara Boxer would begin to increase her level of self importance to American royalty.
We allow our Congressional representatives to approve the expenditure of trillions of dollars at the request of King Obama so shame on us when we are surprised that one of our Senators’ would place her self above the commoners she has chosen to serve. We as a society have strayed far from the original precepts of our founding fathers who would look upon America today with great disdain for allowing the establishment of a political class and the creation and continued expansion of a bloated federal government.
Barbara Boxer’s comment was shameful but is only a symptom of the social, economic and political disease we have created as we bestow superior qualities upon those who we have chosen to serve us.
Exactly! That was a display of pure condescension on her part because he also worked hard to earn his title as General which she gave no respect for. She had absolutely nothing to gain from that comment besides making herself look like an idiot. Hopefully, we can hope that Californians will remember this and give her a new title – one of ex-Senator.