Mean Girls
“Mean Girls” came to Congress last week. Most of us mature beyond the petty disparaging of another person’s appearance after Middle School. Some of us continue to do after being elected to Congress.
The inimitable Marjorie Taylor Greene was in rare form at the House Oversight Committee’s hearing regarding impeachment of Attorney General Merrick Garland. Marge vented about the political motivations of the judge in Donnie’s hush money trial in NYC. As a New York State case, Federal AG Garland has nothing to do with it and, good judge that he is, he has never commented on it. Fellow committee member Jasmine Crockett picked up on this saying, “Do you know what we’re here for? You know we’re here about AG Garland?”
Marge had a snappy comeback. “I don’t think you know what you’re here for. I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez jumped into the fray. She asked to Committee Chairman James Comer to strike Greene’s words from the record and make her apologize to Crockett, saying: “How dare you attack the physical appearance of another person?”
Marge had a comeback for that. “Are your feelings hurt? Why don’t you debate me? You don’t have enough intelligence.”
James Comer realized that this exchange was being televised on C-Span and that Democratic Party recording devices were spinning negative campaign ads about how Republicans have botched Congress this term. Comer also realized that Mar-a-Lago might be watching so he ruled that Marge’s comments did not violate House rules against engaging in “personal attacks” during debate.
Jasmine Crockett then hit Marge and James with the ultimate put-down. “I’m just curious — just to better understand your ruling — if someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blond, bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities and it would be OK, correct?”
“Mean Girls” was a movie in 2004, a Broadway musical ten years later, and a movie again this year. If “Mean Girls” continues its ten year cycle, will 2034 see “Mean Girls in Congress” starring Marjorie Taylor Greene?
By Ed Dufton
