My latest piece is a short look at the House Freedom Caucus, the latest august institution Marjorie Taylor Greene has managed to get herself ejected from:
For most of the last week, nobody seemed to know whether or not Marjorie Taylor Greene was a member of the House Freedom Caucus—including Marjorie Taylor Greene.
A meeting had apparently been held; a secret vote had been taken. Yet nothing had been announced, and the controversial Georgia congresswoman insisted nothing had been conveyed to her. The long-simmering feud between Greene and a fellow Freedom Caucus stalwart, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado, had recently erupted into public name-calling, with Greene calling Boebert a “little b–ch“ on the House floor. Now it had become Schrodinger’s Catfight.
Read on for some light mythbusting about Congress’s most enigmatic organization and a couple of well-contextualized swear words! The story is here.
*While it’s generally considered sexist to call an argument between two serious women a “catfight,” we’re allowing it in this case; it’s clearly ironic, plus the joke is too good.
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