November 14, 2023 11:18 AM UTC

Republicans are Not Serious People

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• by: Colorado Pols

As we noted earlier, House Republicans are struggling to find a way to prevent a government shutdown on Friday after the right-wing House Freedom Caucus rejected their own proposal.

Perhaps Republicans would be more productive if they weren’t so focused on LITERALLY FIGHTING EACH OTHER.

Last week Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene upped the ante in her ongoing verbal battle with Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-ifle). As The Daily Beast reported:

After Rep. Lauren Boebert helped get Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus over the summer, Greene has been on a payback mission against her former friend-turned-nemesis. And after a date at Beetlejuice The Musical turned into a national conversation about groping, Greene has resorted to a playbook familiar to any woman who survived high school: She’s telling GOP colleagues, according to lawmakers, that Boebert is a “whore.”

One Republican lawmaker, who has heard Greene use that word multiple times to describe Boebert, told The Daily Beast that Greene has been at this campaign for some time.

“Calling her a whore, that’s not new,” this GOP lawmaker said. “She’s been doing that for a while.”

This is silly, of course, but the fighting among Republicans in Congress has now progressed to…actual physical fighting among Republicans in Congress.

Republican Rep. Tim Burchett of Tennessee claims that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy punched him inside the halls of Congress, saying that McCarthy hit him with a “clean shot to the kidneys”:

But it’s not just in the House of Representatives where Republicans are looking for actual fights. Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin challenged Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a fight during a hearing of the Senate HELP Committee today:

Senator Mullin exchanged words with O’Brien for a moment before standing up in preparation for an actual physical fight. Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders had to intervene, saying what everyone else in the room was surely thinking:

“Hold it. No, no, no, sit down. Sit down! You’re a United State senator, sit down.”

Ladies and gentlemen: The Republican Party!