Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, seems to be a day late and a dollar short on pretty much everything. Having fended off the only serious opponent to run against her in the previous two elections, she’s now faced with perhaps her stiffest competition yet in a Trump-inspired primary challenger. This ought to be fun!
Yesterday, we received a pandering flyer boasting about her efforts to restart the ill-fated border wall, just one of Trump’s many tragic ideas that were soundly rejected by voters a year ago. She can’t make up her mind whether she’s for Trump or against him even though she voted to impeach him.
Meanwhile, she voted “no” on an historic and long-overdue infrastructure bill that will pay for a big chunk of the planned Interstate 5 Bridge across the Columbia River and probably eliminate the need to collect tolls. I expect her next correspondence to be crowing about how much the bill will help her constituents — an oft-used Republican hypocrisy. Clearly, she’s grasping at straws as her political crystal ball grows cloudy.
