Laura Ingraham Scolds Republicans Over Schoolyard Antics: ‘Complete and Utter Embarrassment’
The congressional GOP had a day on Tuesday in which: a House Republican accused another House Republican of elbowing him in the kidney; the accused House Republican was hit with an ethics complaint by a different House Republican; yet another House Republican called another Republican a “pussy”; yet another House Republican told a Democrat during a hearing he looks like a Smurf; and, a Senate Republican stood up during a hearing to challenge a witness to a fight.
Fox News host Laura Ingraham was unimpressed with the shenanigans and called out the behavior on Tuesday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle.
“This is a Fox News alert,” she said. “We just got our hands on new video of what’s been going down on Capitol Hill.”
What followed was a clip of the fight scene from Mean Girls.
“Well, it’s not that far off from the truth,” the host said. “It’s getting pretty nasty up there.”
Ingraham recounted the details of Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) allegedly elbowing Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) in the back, a month after Burchett voted to oust McCarthy from the speakership. The former speaker denied doing any such thing.
The host noted that in response, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) filed an ethics complaint against McCarthy over the allegation. Like Burchett, Gaetz also voted to remove McCarthy.
Up next was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) taking Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) to task for voting to kill her motion to impeach the secretary of Homeland Security. She did so by quote-tweeting a tweet about Issa, doing so with a one-second clip of former President Donald Trump saying, “She said he’s a pussy.”
Quick aside: The broader context for that clip from 2016? Trump was holding a campaign rally where he repeated a comment from a woman in the crowd who called Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) “a pussy.”
Ingraham then moved on to Rep. James Comer (R-KY), who told Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), “You look like a Smurf.”
Finally, in the Senate, a long-brewing feud between Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and Teamsters President Sean O’Brien came to a boiling point when Mullin stood up during a hearing to challenge O’Brien to a fight. The charade was stopped by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who reminded Mullin he is a U.S. senator.
“I never thought I’d say this, but Bernie Sanders seems to be the voice of reason here,” Ingraham said. “Everything you just saw was a complete and utter embarrassment. It shouldn’t be what is projected to our kids from our nation’s Capitol. Reminder to all of you, yeah, the children are watching. You’re supposed to be the adults in the room.”
Watch above via Fox News.
