Infighting Is Funny

The Messenger reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., has brought his quarrel with ousted House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to the big screen in a documentary-style short film titled “Gaveled Out: Return of the People’s House,” which he posted to X on Friday. The 13-minute movie starts in January with McCarthy’s difficult election to the speakership where he was shown asking …

The Daily Beast reports: After Rep. Lauren Boebert helped get Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus over the summer, Greene has been on a payback mission against her former friend-turned-nemesis. And after a date at Beetlejuice The Musical turned into a national conversation about groping, Greene has resorted to a playbook familiar to any woman …

CNN has the transcript: Raju: [Rep.] Matt Gaetz [(R-FL)], you’ve been mentioning a lot. How much would the Republican Party benefit if he were no longer a member of the House, in your opinion? McCarthy: Oh, tremendously. I mean, people have to earn the right to be here, and I just think… I mean, he’ll admit to you personally he …

NBC News reports: Ramaswamy kept up his focus on Haley, with the most intense moment coming when he went after her daughter. He said she had joined TikTok, even as Haley had criticized Ramaswamy at a previous debate for using the app despite its ties to China. “She made fun of me for actually joining TikTok while her own daughter …

“In our conference we had Matt Gaetz and seven other Republicans that declared red lines, where any speaker that passes a CR [continuing resolution for funding] or funds Ukraine war funding should be ousted. “So my question is, we’re about to have Speaker Mike Johnson pass the CR. And he is talking about passing mega, mega Ukraine funding = trying …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: Why would anybody endorse Ron DeSanctimonious, who is like a wounded bird falling from the sky? His Poll numbers are terrible, he is totally against Ethanol, and fought to destroy Social Security and Medicare. Well, the “Nation’s most unpopular governor,” Kim Reynolds of Iowa, just endorsed him. What’s that all about? Which was followed …

The Meidas Touch reports: The Ron Desantis campaign is seeking to capitalize on any momentum it will receive tonight with the endorsement from Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds by simultaneously launching a brutal broadside at Trump. This is, by far, the most aggressive attack made by the Desantis campaign yet on Trump. The clips include Trump forgetting what state he was …

Salon reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., lashed out as House Freedom Caucus members on Thursday after nearly two dozen Republicans voted to shoot down her attempt to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a fellow MAGA Republican and member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, criticized Greene’s “feckless resolution” as “deeply flawed” and filled with “factually …

“Speaker Johnson is saying, well, look, we might have to do just one more, just one more continuing resolution, we just got to do one more all the way through January 15th? Why is that? It’s obvious he doesn’t want to make people work through Christmas because he says, well, we need some breathing room. “No. No breathing room. Work …

The Florida Republican Assembly today resolved: WHEREAS, Governor Ron DeSantis was elected to serve the people of the State of Florida and to complete his four-year term, and WHEREAS, Governor Ron DeSantis has been using his position as Governor to campaign for the office of the President of the United States, taking him away from his official duties and responsibilities …

“Jason Smith says if my lips are moving, I’m lying. Well, you know what? If Jason Smith is breathing, he is living a lie. There might not be another member of Congress who lives a lie every day more than Jason Smith. “And Jason Smith knows exactly what I’m talking about. And by the way, so does almost every member …

“It’s embarrassing and it needs to end now. I’ve said for a long time I don’t want to sit in a room in the basement of the U.S. Capitol and talk about our feelings. I was speaker of the Nebraska unicameral legislature, which, by the way, is officially nonpartisan. It’s like herding cats on methamphetamine. And when I got to …

The Hill reports: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) dropped out of the Speaker’s race on Tuesday, just hours after the conference nominated the Minnesota Republican for the top job, according to a source familiar. Emmer withdrew his name from the running after a contingent of Republicans made clear they would not back him on the House floor, making it …

“What Donald Trump does now, he is wedded to the teleprompter. He can’t get off that teleprompter, any time he does, he says things like ‘Don’t vote.’ He’s telling people not to vote like we have all the votes we need. Really? “Wait a minute, you lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016. You don’t have all the …

Reuters reports: U.S. House of Representatives Republicans on Tuesday chose Tom Emmer as their nominee for speaker, but struggled to line up enough votes to guarantee he could win the job and fill a leadership vacuum that has paralyzed the chamber for three weeks. Emmer, who currently serves as the No. 3 Republican in the House, won the nomination by …

“The first rule of politics is this — never run directly into a tree while kicking yourself repeatedly in the nuts. Republicans in Congress seem to have forgotten this rule. “Two weeks ago, Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, along with limelight-seeking compatriots like Representative Nancy Mace, decided it was time to get rid of Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy. …

“Frankly, I wish — listen, I’ve talked about this — I wish they had a woman candidate out of all the candidates they’ve got running. Somebody like Elise Stefanik or Beth Van Duyne, who had been a mayor of a city before becoming a congresswoman. I think in some ways, given the level of rowdiness and the level of juvenile …

“Dear Wayward Colleague, Your letter of October 20, in which you graciously offer to martyr yourselves as long as you can get your way, is perhaps the most selfless act in American history. We truly don’t deserve you. Your sacrifice is not in vain. You have succeeded in replacing the outdated concept of majority rule with an exciting new standard …

The New York Times reports: In early May, as Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida prepared to run for president, about a dozen right-wing social media influencers gathered at his pollster’s home for cocktails and a poolside buffet. The guests all had large followings or successful podcasts and were already fans of the governor. But Mr. DeSantis’s team wanted to turn …

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) isn’t happy about the way the Capitol Hill chaos he orchestrated is developing. Seventeen days after he and seven other hardliners voted to boot Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) from the speakership, Gaetz’s preferred replacement, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), got the same treatment as scores of Republicans voted secretly to kick him off …