The gloves were off in the House of Representatives this week after Georgia congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene called her Colorado colleague Lauren Boebert “a little bitch.” The gruesome twosome used to be thick as thieves. What happened?
The fight erupted over impeachment articles that Boebert introduced Tuesday and tried unsuccessfully to force a vote on. Greene, who drafted her impeachment articles in 2021 and again this May, publicly accused Boebert of copying. On Wednesday, Boebert again tried unsuccessfully to force a vote on her impeachment resolution.
During the vote, Boebert confronted Greene over comments the congresswoman had made to the press. C-SPAN’s camera’s caught part of the exchange in a center aisle of the House floor.
“I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you. But you’ve been nothing but a little bitch to me,” Greene reportedly told Boebert, according to a source who witnessed the exchange. “And you copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them.”
Greene was eager to let the press know her true feelings for Boebert after the exchange. “She has genuinely been a nasty little bitch to me,” Greene told Semafor. “I was sitting down, and so I stood up and I said, ‘I’m happy to clarify my public statements to your face.’ I told her exactly what I think about her.”
The former besties have been feuding for months now. The two had a high-school catfight in the ladies room over Kevin McCarthy’s House speaker candidacy earlier this year. According to the Daily Beast, Greene confronted Boebert as she was coming out of a bathroom stall, accusing the congresswoman of disloyalty.
“You were OK taking millions of dollars from McCarthy but you refuse to vote for him for speaker,” Greene asked her colleague. Before the altercation turned physical, Boebert ran out of the bathroom like a “little school girl,” according to a source familiar. As entertaining as a bathroom brawl would have been, Cockburn can’t blame Boebert for backing out; the gentlewoman from Georgia has at least three inches on her.
Boebert confirmed the spat on a segment in the Dana Show in January, saying that Greene had been “kind of nasty” about the speakership battle. “I looked at her and said, ‘I don’t have time for this’ and I said, ‘Don’t be ugly.’”
Cockburn is relieved to see that MAGA’s answer to Cassie and Maddy from Euphoria are keeping things adolescent in Congress. Oh to be young…
