Don’t look now, but a GOP family feud is already cooking up on Capitol Hill.
Politics :
Exactly 7 days after Republicans began a weeklong comedy sketch of electing a leader and less than 72 hours after congressional members were sworn-in and Kevin McCarthy was named the new Speaker of the House, GOP infighting has already kicked into high gear with no hint of easing in sight.
Party members are stealthily stabbing each other in the back, right-wingers are distrusting each other and looking at ways to replace other right-wingers, and Donald Trump and his presidential aspirations Part II are rapidly sinking into oblivion.
Does Kevin McCarthy realize he has agreed to captain the Titanic?
Let’s take a look at the multiple fires currently blazing inside the GOP family feud:
MY PILLOW GUY vs MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE
Far-right MAGA sycophant Mike Lindell, AKA the “My Pillow Guy,” was convinced Matt Gaetz would NEVER sell out the GOP Freedom Caucus and support Kevin McCarthy — until he did. However, Mr. Pillow had a few choice words for MAGA icon and Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for surprisingly joining the McCarthy camp.
“Matt Gaetz is not going to break his promise,” Lindell said during a podcast on right-wing network Telegram (while incorrectly predicting Gaetz would not allow McCarthy to win). “I’m very surprised that the one, I won’t name her name, but it’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, she broke her promise.”
“Oh, I did name her name. Oh, I let it slip out,” Lindell continued. “Now the media can say ‘Mike Lindell bashes Marjorie Taylor Greene!’”
FOX NEWS vs THE GOP
In an unexpected twist of fate, on-air personalities of Fox & Friends took to the airwaves to beat up on the Republican Party for turning the selection of the House Speaker into a circus.
“How are you supposed to do your job?” host Brian Kilmeade rhetorically asked Republican members of Congress during a segment last week. “You should not take this job if it’s about your ego and your own personal agenda. The whole thing should be service for the country and the subset is your party. Please explain to me how this helps your party. You are looking like idiots in front of the country.”
MAGA vs MARJORIE T. GREENE
Frankly, Marj T. Greene hasn’t been feeling the love from her klan lately and recently complained that she’s receiving hate from the MAGA movement just because she supported Kevin McCarthy for House Speaker.
“I just also need to remind everyone, while people are mad at me, President Trump endorsed and supported Kevin McCarthy. Jim Jordan endorsed, supported, voted for, and nominated Kevin McCarthy,” Greene said. “So, people that are overly mad at me, I shouldn’t be your punching bag.”
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STOP THE STEAL vs MTG
“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander has threatened to expose an unspecified crime he claims Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene committed.
“I will not suffer this harlot,” Alexander said on his Telegram page. “I will not be taught vows and loyalty, commitment from a whore! You have got me mistaken for some damn fool, and a fool, Ali Alexander has never been called.”
MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE vs LAUREN BOEBERT
Once upon a time, Reps. Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene were thick as thieves — until recently when Greene made a backroom deal with Kevin McCarthy to ditch the Republican Freedom Caucus and throw her support behind him.
Too bad, so sad for the former BFF’s but a tense GOP family feud between the 2 women culminated on the House floor last week when Boebert told Greene “Get the f*ck out of my face.”
GOP vs GEORGE SANTOS
Apparently, at least a handful of Republicans still believe in integrity and accountability.
Despite attempts to change the subject and claim that his congressional tenure should have nothing to do with choices in his personal life, new congressman and current GOP liar-in-chief George Santos is apparently the subject of a secret replacement campaign.
Republicans are reportedly already preparing for the possibility that Santos could eventually resign, be sent to jail, or need to be replaced before he runs for a 2nd term. So, they’ve been secretly looking at reliable GOP names who could step in and take over if need be for the chronic fibber.
Interestingly, Republicans are also already so over George Santos, that they’ve been avoiding him like the bubonic plague.
Now, how’s THAT for some good ol’ fashioned GOP family feud – ing?
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GOP family feud steps into high gear.
AP:
“This is the greatest danger we’ve had as a party since 1964,” Newt Gingrich said in an interview, referring to the Republican National Convention that saw moderates facing off against conservative insurgents. The Republican base, he said, is “watching chaos in the House and they’re watching the potential for a Never-Trump and an Always-Trump collision that could be devastatingly divisive.”
The party’s allies in conservative media were equally distressed.
“This is a disaster for the Republicans,” Fox News host Steve Doocy said Wednesday on “Fox & Friends.” Sean Hannity said Tuesday night that House Republicans “are now on the verge of becoming a total clown show if they’re not careful.”