On this date in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, as well as 2020, that "Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day" published profiles of the U.S. House Representative from Colorado’s 5th Congressional District, Doug Lamborn, who first won office in 2007 by gay-baiting and claiming his primary opponent “supported the homosexual agenda” (which wasn’t the case). Lamborn was also named the most conservative member of Congress in 2010 by the National Journal, which makes sense when you realize he was one of the original member of the GOP to push legislation fueled by FOX News’ “War on Christmas”, as well as being the guy the guy who co-sponsored a bill to try to defund National Public Radio. Long before Mitt Romney ever talked about defunding PBS and speaking ill of Big Bird, Rep. Lamborn did it first. Lamborn even once gave an interview where he described being associated with President Obama “like touching a tar baby”, which he defended by saying he had no idea “tar baby” was a racial slur. That may be part of the reason that he once called for American generals to resign to protest President Obama's foreign policy or the time he made a spectacle of himself back in 2012 by announcing that he was boycotting President Obama's State of the Union Address, then complaining when the media actually reported it, and saying he was being "unfairly singled out". Lamborn also took to claiming President Obama was doing nothing to prevent Christian persecution around the globe because he was too busy supporting LGBTQ causes.
Doug Lamborn was implicated as someone who benefited from stock advice from fellow Congressman Chris Collins, whose stock advice really amounts to insider trading, although unlike Collins, Lamborn avoided being directly indicted. He managed to survive the scandal of fraudulent signatures to get on the ballot to win re-election in 2018.
Now in his 7th term in office, Lamborn has continued his feud with PBS, complaining not just about Sesame Street and Big Bird, but getting his knickers in a twist and trying to defund PBS because the teacher on the cartoon Arthur had the titular character’s teacher, Mr. Ratburn, married to another man (anthropomorphic animal man, but GASP, A MAN!). Lamborn’s fury, as follows:
… Get bent, Lamborn. And stop whining all the time about the Green New Deal without seeming to even know what it IS, and labeling everything you don’t like “socialism”.
Anyway, it’s probably not a shock to anyone that Lamborn, now in his eighth term in office after winning re-election in 2020 with 58% of the vote, continues to rack up a highly conservative voting record, now in the minority:
- December 18th, 2019: Lamborn ignores his Congressional duty to hold a president who has been proven to commit high crimes and misdemeanors accountable and votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump.
- May 15th, 2020: Lamborn votes against the HEROES Act, to further support the healthcare industry and citizens affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
- December 10th, 2020: Lamborn signs his name to an amicus brief to the Supreme Court, begging them to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
- January 7th, 2021: Doug Lamborn votes for the objection to the electoral college’s votes in the 2020 election, a failure to send any sort of message those who attacked the Capitol to attempt a violent coup.
- January 13th, 2021: Rep. Lamborn votes against the second impeachment of Donald Trump, because he doesn't feel Trump should be accountable for anything, including failed coups that result in the deaths of both their participants and police officers.
- February 4th, 2021: Doug Lamborn votes to keep Marjorie Taylor Greene’s committee assignments, because he wouldn’t want her to be accountable for all the bigoted remarks and conspiracy theories she’s spread online (probably because she’s a kindred spirit).
- March 3rd, 2021: Rep. Lamborn votes against HR 1, a bill created to prevent the corruption of money in politics, and protect voter access to the ballot box.
- March 3rd, 2021: Doug Lamborn votes against the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2021.
- March 10th, 2021: Lamborn votes against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, because he feels people deserve to die in poverty during a pandemic.
- March 17th, 2021: Rep. Lamborn votes against the re-authorization of the Violence Against Women Act, likely because they feel the 2nd Amendment remaining absolute is more important than preventing people with a history of domestic abuse from owning a firearm (which statistics show, makes them more likely to use those firearms against women in their lives).
- May 19th, 2021: Rep. Lamborn votes against HR 3233, the creation of a commission to investigate the Capitol Attack.
- July 28th, 2021: Doug Lamborn rages on the floor of the House against mask mandates for members of Congress as advised by the attending physician for the House, saying that if he is required to wear one, instead, all of Congress should just be “adjourned and shut this place down”. He continued rambling and publicly questioning the efficacy of vaccines, while he was at it. More on him not wanting any legislative business to happen below…
Colorado’s 5th Congressional District still has a +14 Republican lean in the Cook Partisan Voting Index, and remains the most conservative district in the state. That means Doug Lamborn be incredibly hard to pry from office, even what with news that his own staffers are getting fired for taking precautions during the Covid-19 pandemic and allegedly being told by Lamborn that Covid-19 is a “hoax fabricated to derail Donald Trump’s reelection bid”. Further e-mails between staffers indicate Lamborn will also be facing an ethics investigation for allegedly having Congressional staff run errands for his wife, against Congressional rules. In a sane world, where people understand science and don’t adhere to conspiracy theories, he’d already have been toast years ago. Alas, that’s not the direction this country, in particular his district has trended.