Knowing that, what did Boxer do the entire 8 years of the BushAdministration? She effectively went on sabbatical. She wrote murder mysteries ("Something I always wanted to do, if I ever had the time"). She, of course, took her senatorial salary all those years.
Boxer's support of JoeLieberman in 2006 exposed Boxer's very 'conditional' support of a woman's right to choose (and her general level of ignorance)
http://firedoglake.com/2006/07/24/the-boxer-meltdown/
In the 2010 midterm campaign, I asked rhetorically, "If Republicans win back control of Congress, do you think Democrats will be as effective at stymieing Republicans' agenda as Republicans have been the last two years at stymieing Obama's/Democrats' 2008 agenda?" Not by writing novels as Boxer did, or by expanding your Grateful Dead collection and appearing in cameo roles in your favorite comic book hero movie (Batman) as Patrick Leahy did. All on the public's dime.
Then there's the Indian gaming industry and BarbaraBoxer. Few know of Boxer's cozy relationship with the Indian gaming industry (Indian gaming is spun by pro-corporate Democrats as great for the People, both native Americans and patrons, but in truth it's an underbelly industry where the People aren't getting rich, only the corporate non-Indian partners) and the conflict of interest her support creates. Her son is in partnership with Indian casino development. Both Boxer and DianneFeinstein worked to get Indian casinos into California -- Not a good thing; they're exempt from state & federal laws, wreak havoc environmentally, financially & socially on the communities they're in and around.
http://articles.sfgate.com/2003-05-11/bay-area/17489097_1_casino-development-indian-casinos-southern-sonoma-county-pomos
http://www.cfspm.org/files/QuickSiteImages/Jackpot_-_A_short_history_of_Bay_Area_Gaming_Efforts_and_Influencers.doc
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