A clueless Lauren Boebert misses the vote on the debt ceiling deal

This was really a busy week for Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, assuming time spent on Twitter falls within her job description. In the run-up to the week’s main event—the House’s vote on whether to lift the nation’s debt ceiling—Boebert reportedly tweeted her doubtlessly well-researched opinions on the issue some 23 times. If the U.S. taxpayer paid their congressional representatives by the tweet, Boebert might have even qualified for overtime.

However, congresspeople are not paid to tweet. They’re paid to legislate, and the way you do that as an elected congressperson is by voting on legislation. It’s a fairly easy process: You push a “Yea” button, a “Nay” button, or even a “Present” button. That way, you can go back to your district and actually claim that you, you know, did something to represent them. After all, that’s what you’re there for. That’s why your constituents pay you a salary.

But this basic concept seems to have been lost on Rep. Boebert. Because when the time came to vote on whether to accept or reject the landmark “deal” reached between President Biden and Boebert’s own caucus leader, Kevin McCarthy, Boebert was nowhere to be found.

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