“I wouldn’t (bleep) her with your (bleep) …”
That’s the closest I’m going to come to expressing that particular opinion about two of the leading female luminaries in the Republican Party.
Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia are both first-term representatives in Congress, and while Boebert’s western Colorado district is the least solidly Republican in the state, Greene’s Georgia district is about as Republican as it gets.
The two “ladies” humiliated themselves by shouting back at the podium during President Biden’s State of the Union speech last week. It was probably the worst behavior at a SOTU since South Carolina representative Joe Wilson shouted “You lie” at President Obama during his speech 10 years or so ago.
It’s ironic that these two have joined the parade of truly bizarre Republicans in Congress, most of whom are male. There’s Matt Gaetz, Madison Cawthorn, Josh Hawley, Gym Jordan and dozens of others. One of my favorites is Ted Cruz, the Texas senator who escaped the power outage that was killing Texas during an ice storm by hopping a plane to Cancun.
But Greene is the queen, at least when it comes to goofiness. She blamed the California wildfires on Jewish Space Lasers, and she has harassed several women on the other side of the aisle, including of course Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
It’s tough to top “Jewish Space Lasers,” but Greene compared the House mask mandate to the Holocaust, and then in defending the January 6th insurrectionists, she made another weird reference.
“Not only do we have the DC jail which is the DC gulag, but now we have Nancy Pelosi’s gazpacho police spying on members of Congress, spying on the legislative work that we do, spying on our staff and spying on American citizens,” she said in an interview on far right wing radio.
She must really hate Spain’s cold tomato soup.
Boebert may not be as stupid as Greene, but she’s no better in other ways. In Biden’s speech, he was talking about American soldiers suffering from various diseases when they returned home from the war when she yelled about 13 American soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
Congress booed her.
Boebert first earned infamy in Congress last year when she refused to wear deodorant.
Ain’t Republicans grand?