Infighting Is Funny

The Texas Tribune reports: Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick broke his personal silence Saturday on Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment after the Senate voted for acquittal, blasting the House’s impeachment process as deeply flawed. “The speaker and his team rammed through the first impeachment of a statewide official in Texas in over 100 years while paying no attention to the precedent …

“Guys, come on. We know that if Lauren Boebert were rubbing the crotch of a drag queen in a library while the drag queen was grabbing Boebert’s breasts, the left would be fine with it. But you’d all be condemning it. “We shouldn’t react to the left’s outrage over Boebert’s behavior in a theater by defending Boebert’s ‘do you know …

GOP Rep. Ken Buck writes for the Washington Post: The House is back in session, and Americans are getting an up-close look at Washington’s dysfunction. We are barreling toward a government shutdown without making progress on cutting our out-of-control spending. Yet Republican leadership has decided to divert attention to an impeachment inquiry into President Biden. What’s missing, despite years of …

“I know him well as a friend, as a former boss, I have great love and respect for him personally. But everything that you just said resonates with me as exactly why I simply can’t support him for elected office again. “Why I have chosen to distance is because of that, frankly, malignant narcissistic tendency to simply say that he’s …

The Messenger reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., on Thursday dared members from his own party who have been threatening to oust him to bring a motion to vacate to the House floor. According to a source in the room during a House Republican Conference meeting Thursday morning, the speaker said he’s not scared of the motion, which — if …

“I am the most investigated man in the entire Congress. And right there you saw Kevin McCarthy lying like a dead dog, because I have never asked him to interfere in any ethics matter. “That is an abject lie from a sad and pathetic man who lies to hold on to power. He lied to get power in January when …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was easily re-elected last November, but now establishment RINOS are trying to undo that Election with a shameful impeachment of him. Who would replace Paxton, one of the TOUGHEST & BEST Attorney Generals in the Country? Could it be a Democrat, or even worse, a RINO? The voters have …

NBC News reports: Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., a member of the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus, dismissed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comments on a timeline for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as “absurd” during an interview on “Inside with Jen Psaki” on Sunday. In a video posted online last month, Greene said she won’t support any measure to …

The Hill reports: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R ) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) campaign are both pushing back on former President Trump’s “Covid Tyrant” claims. Kemp responded to a video of Trump where the former president said that “Covid Tyrant[s]” want to take away Americans’ freedoms and called on people to “not comply.” Kemp appeared to take the …

“What he did in that video was completely homophobic, terrible dialing us back, and he lost a lot of suburban women. What he did in that video was completely homophobic, terrible dialing us back, and he lost a lot of suburban women. “We have to have a society where we allow adults to live their lives as long as you’re …

Mediaite reports: Conservative commentator Ann Coulter slapped back at former President Donald Trump on Wednesday, branding him a “GIGANTIC PUSSY,” after Trump called Coulter “washed up” and “a Stone Cold Loser.” Trump lashed out at his former ally in a series of Truth Social posts on Wednesday which came seemingly out of nowhere. Coulter responded to the attack with her …

The Messenger reports: Vivek Ramaswamy pushed back against fellow Republican candidate Nikki Haley’s attacks on his foreign policy positions by targeting her Indian name. In an updated section of his website aimed at dispelling “myths” about him, Ramaswamy took aim at Haley for her criticism of his position on the U.S. relationship with Israel. Haley and Ramaswamy exchanged verbal blows …

“The guy’s a man-child. This is a man-child. This is a deeply disturbed individual. The X thing — and I will break it down in shows to come — but that’s a whole Aleister Crowley. He’s been obsessed with turning these companies into the word X. He tried to do it with PayPal; he’s done it his whole life. That’s …

“I don’t think any of us relish witnessing what’s happening with these people that we worked with. I think it’s fair to say that, you know, Mark was a ringleader of much of the events that happened around January 6th. He was somebody who, the president sought to find additional attorneys who gave advice different than the White House counsel, …

“We ran the greatest campaign, I think, in the country last cycle, and it was all about we the people, all about the people of Arizona who haven’t had great representation, unfortunately, by politicians who are just in D.C. to line their pockets. So if I decide to jump in, I will be an incredible candidate because I will be …

Politico reports: The Trump campaign and MAGA world on Saturday blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for remarks appearing to label some of the former president’s supporters “listless vessels.” “DeSantis goes full-blown Hillary and call[s] MAGA supporters ‘Listless Vessels,’” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung wrote on X. A Trump-aligned super PAC also blasted DeSantis’ statement. “To Hillary Clinton, Trump supporters are …

Posted to Laura Loomer’s Twitter account: Christopher Worrell is a J6er from Florida. Florida has the highest number of J6 defendants. His sentencing was supposed to be today. He was denied his cancer treatment while he was in custody. And even though his family asked @RonDeSantis to assist them, he ignored their calls. Worrell was facing 14 years in prison …

NBC News reports: An official spokesperson for Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose is out of a job, days after his tweets — including some critical of former President Donald Trump — became fodder for LaRose’s political opponents. Rob Nichols, a veteran Republican communications operative who had served as press secretary for LaRose’s office, was fired because of the tweets …

“The 2020 election in Georgia was not stolen. For nearly three years now, anyone with evidence of fraud has failed to come forward – under oath – and prove anything in a court of law. Our elections in Georgia are secure, accessible, and fair and will continue to be as long as I am governor. The future of our country …

Rolling Stone reports: Attorneys for veterans of Trump’s post-election activities like Rudy Giuliani and Kenneth Chesebro — both of whom have been identified as among the six unnamed “co-conspirators” in the most recent federal indictment of Trump — are now casting blame towards others on the campaign’s legal team or people close to the then-president. Giuliani and his lawyer are …