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Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day: Cynthia Lummis- 2023 Update [1]

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Date: 2023-04-07  

On this date in 2016, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” posted a profile of U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis, who was, at the time, the former four-term U.S. House Representative for Wyoming's "At Large" Congressional District. Prior to running for Congress in 2008, Lummis was a long time member of the Wyoming state legislature and multi-millionaire heir to a ranching family. Once she got to the Capitol, she obsessively kept trying to chip away at Social Security, including when she introduced HR 1160 to the floor of the House, a bill that would raise the minimum retirement age to qualify for Social Security from 65 to 70. It mercifully failed to advance, but she has railed against Social Security and any other government program she feels is an unnecessary entitlement.



Just like she did against the Affordable Care Act, lying and claiming that its passage would lead to “healthcare rationing”, one of the biggest political lies going in 2009 and 2010. Her rage against the ACA was taken to a whole new level in December of 2014… and out on Jonathon Gruber, the ACA Architect, during a hearing about the initial glitches on the Obamacare website by blaming the technical mishaps of the healthcare website on her husband’s recent death. Now, why was that a load of crap? The Affordable Care Act was designed to provide healthcare for those who otherwise would not be able to afford medical insurance… people who tend to be less well off. Cynthia Lummis and her husband were worth an estimated $20-75 million. AND he had health insurance. He could have just paid for the one test Lummis claims he didn’t get that would have saved his life, because he was, according to her, confused about his enrollment status. But there is no tragedy Lummis or the GOP is unwilling to exploit, even self-inflicted ones.



Lummis also spent her last debate in her final run for her Congressional seat, fear-mongering about the Ebola Virus, and calling for a travel ban from West Africa until “things settle down” (against the advisement of the CDC). Her voting record also saw consistent votes against equal pay for women, votes against all LGBTQ rights, votes to defund Planned Parenthood, a vote against Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief, votes to shut down the government in 2013 and a vote not to reopen it, and a vote against even the Zadroga bill, to provide healthcare for first responders from 9/11. Lummis took her heartless lack of concern for her fellow man and retired from office in 2016…



But four years after resigning, Cynthia Lummis returned to run for U.S. Senate in 2020, sliding into the seat vacated by the retiring GOP Senator Mike Enzi. She immediately thrust herself into infamy, refusing to certify the electoral votes from Pennsylvania in the 2020 election, adding fuel onto the dumpster fire that is the modern GOP’s rejection of democracy. She followed that up by voting against convicting Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial, even though everyone in the nation watched Trump attempt a violent coup right before our eyes.



Perhaps it’s a bad footnote that she’s the first U.S. Senator to have ever purchased Bitcoin, or that she has hundreds of thousands of dollars invested in the enterprise… but somehow remains on the Senate’s Banking committee where she can pitch legislation about how much (or little) that cryptocurrency is regulated by the government. Seems like that might be a big conflict of interests, but hey, it’s not like she’s a part of a party that’s brazenly corrupt and repeatedly using the system to only further enrich themselves. OH WAIT, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT THE GOP IS.



Cynthia Lummis will not be up for re-election until 2026.

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