Roll Call — “The Newspaper of Capitol Hill” — has created a list of the ten most partisan members of Congress in the last fifty years. Based on input from “dozens” of political observers, the list is of “those Members who are viewed as the most combative, most effective at using partisanship for political gain and most likely to show a virtual disregard for the other side of the aisle.”

Guess who made the list?

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.)
Served 1983-1993 (House)
1993-present (Senate)

Boxer, the only woman to make our top 10 list, has developed a reputation as one of the most liberal lawmakers and a vocal advocate for abortion rights, gun control and women’s issues.

Boxer, elected to the Senate in 1992, has made waves throughout her tenure, but most notably for her defense of then-President Bill Clinton and her march across the Capitol as a House Member to defend Anita Hill, who accused then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment.

More recently, Boxer challenged the 2004 electoral college vote — an almost unprecedented act, and one that was sure to fail, but which was designed to call attention to Democratic allegations of election irregularities in Ohio. “She is perhaps the personification of the feminist left,” the Almanac (of American Politics) once wrote.

Who said there was no glory in being an ineffective showboat?

(For our other posts on our least-favorite Senator, look here.)

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