‘I Didn’t Know We Could Say B*tch on TV’: MTG-Boebert Feud Spills Onto House Floor
Republican women spar over which one should lead Biden's impeachment
Long-simmering tensions between two hard-right Republican congresswomen boiled over on the House floor Wednesday, with one calling the other “a little bitch.”
The feud blew up over Rep Lauren Boebert, of Colorado, began fast-tracking a measure to impeach President Biden. Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia was angry because she's been trying longer to have the Democratic president impeached.
Meanwhile, Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy actually wants to squelch any move to impeach Biden, and Democrats are watching this unfold by saying that this flap highlights the Republicans’ “chaos and extremism.”
Boebert and Greene — who began this year on opposite sides of the effort to elect McCarthy as speaker — sparred over the resolution Boebert introduced that would impeach Biden when it comes to the floor later this week.
According to The Daily Beast during the exchange, Greene called Boebert a “little bitch” in full view of the chamber.
Greene, who reportedly confirmed the use of the profanity towards her colleague, is angry because Boebert is pursuing a quick vote on a Biden impeachment despite the fact that Greene earlier had filed her own impeachment resolution — literally on Biden's first day in office.
At stake in the competition over an impeachment of Biden are the ability of either congresswoman to build their brand within Republican circles as well as successfully drive fundraising.
Meanwhile, what has become a nakedly partisan effort to impeach despite no credible allegations of wrongdoing is causing heartburn for McCarthy, with the California Republican telling his members to vote against the Boebert resolution when it comes up.
“We won't use impeachment for political purposes. We will follow our investigations exactly as we say we would. We're uncovering something new every day,” the speaker said.
The truth is that ham-handed Republican investigations into the president and his family have uncovered no substantiated allegations of wrongdoing by Biden.
House Republicans have gotten angrier in general, since many on the right flank feel like they got very little of what they were demanding in the recent partisan duel with Biden over raising the federal debt ceiling, according to MSNBC host Jen Psaki, also former White House press secretary for Biden.
“That train is rolling. I mean, ever since the debt limit deal that a number of these same Republicans did not like, they’ve been quite displeased, to put it gently — I didn’t know that you could say ‘bitch’ on television, so I just learned that — but they’ve been quite displeased — ”
This lurch towards a partisan, baseless impeachment just proves that Republicans are incapable of effective government, according to House Democrats who are watching it all unfold.
“Well, we know that Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are both dueling with each other around impeachment resolutions of Joe Biden. Look, I think the thing is that this is a clear sign, yet again, that Kevin McCarthy has ceded control of the party to people in the extreme MAGA right of his party,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus. “You know, they’re trying to control them now, but they’ve put them out in center stage, they’ve given them forum in many different ways, and now this is what they’re having to deal with.
“Chaos, extremism, nothing about governing, nothing about helping the American people have lower costs and better jobs and higher wages and safer communities — just this chaos and extremism that we watch every day now,” she added.
Correction: Due to an editing error, a quote from MSNBC host Jen Psaki was initially omitted. It is now included.
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