June 28, 2023 11:16 AM UTC

MTG/Boebert Feud Awaits After Holiday Recess

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• by: Colorado Pols

It’s probably a good thing that Congress adjourned last week for a long Fourth of July holiday recess, since before lawmakers left Washington and headed to their respective corners of the country, the slow-burning feud between the former “Q-some Twosome,” far-right Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado, exploded into public view over Boebert’s ill-timed and factually challenged articles of impeachment against President Joe Biden. In a heated exchange on the House floor, MTG called Boebert a “little b—-“ and accused Boebert of cribbing her articles of impeachment.

The now-open verbal warfare between these two seeming peas in a proverbial pod caps a long period of growing animosity between the two, which occasionally surfaced in news reports of Boebert’s despair over being likened to MTG and their reported confrontation in a Capitol bathroom over Boebert’s holdout opposition to Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Although it was reported over a year ago that Boebert was jealous of MTG’s higher profile, it was the split over McCarthy that appears to have driven the final wedge between them. Now that the conflict is out in the open, it’s drawing attention well beyond either Georgia or Colorado. Today, the Boston Globe’s Shannon Larson published a must-read in-depth history of the MTG/Boebert feud, and the aftermath of MTG’s foul mouth going public:

“OK, Marjorie, we’re through,” Boebert replied, according to the Daily Beast.

“We were never together,” Greene retorted…

When asked by Semafor, Greene rejected the idea of reconciliation.

“Absolutely not,” Greene said. “She has genuinely been a nasty little [expletive] to me.”

“I have defended her when she’s been attacked. She and I have virtually the same voting record. We’re both members of the House Freedom Caucus,” Greene told reporters. “We should be natural allies. But for some reason, she has a great skill and talent for making most people here not like her.”

Boebert’s definitive fall from the good graces of Republican leadership came when she and fellow Floridian Rep. Matt Gaetz dragged the new GOP House majority through the embarrassing spectacle of fifteen votes to confirm Kevin McCarthy. MTG’s close alliance with Speaker McCarthy coming out of that struggle has been very good for Greene’s career after being bounced off her committees in the previous Congress. On the other hand, Boebert’s antics during McCarthy’s confirmation fight are a big reason why so many of her fellow Republicans don’t take Boebert seriously anymore–as evidenced by the cool reaction to her half-baked articles of impeachment.

The question, and we may not have an answer until lawmakers return to Washington, is which of them will win the personality contest within the House Freedom Caucus?

The House Freedom Caucus members voted Friday on Greene’s future with the caucus amid an internal push to consider purging members who are at odds with the group, Politico reported. Sources told Politico that the vote ended with a consensus against her, in keeping with many on the far right turning against Greene. Her status remains in limbo…

At this point, MTG has much less to lose by being spurned by the House Freedom Caucus than she did before forging her alliance with Speaker McCarthy. On the other hand, the Freedom Caucus hard-liners are weaker than ever after failing to stop McCarthy’s debt ceiling deal with the White House and Boebert’s friendless impeachment articles. Say what you will about Marjorie Taylor Greene, and without a doubt there’s a lot to say, she has demonstrated vastly more basic political sense than Boebert has ever shown.

Considering how much more vulnerable Boebert is than MTG, that should be the other way around.