Fox News host Laura Ingraham called out Republicans, saying that their behavior was an “utter embarrassment” on a day that saw former Speaker Kevin McCarthy accused of shoving a GOP colleague and a Republican senator challenge a witness in a congressional hearing to a fight.
“This is a Fox News alert,” Ingraham said on The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday. “We just got our hands on new video of what’s been going down on Capitol Hill.”
She proceeded to play a clip of the school brawl scene from Mean Girls.
“Well, it’s not that far off from the truth,” Ingraham said. “It’s getting pretty nasty up there.”
Ingraham detailed how McCarthy was accused of elbowing Rep. Tim Burchett while Burchett was giving an interview, after Burchett voted to oust McCarthy from the speakership in October. McCarthy denied the allegation.
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She noted that McCarthy is now facing an ethics complaint filed by Rep. Matt Gaetz, who orchestrated McCarthy’s ousting.
Ingraham noted that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called Rep. Darrell Issa “a word I’m not going to say on TV” after he and several other Republicans voted to block her resolution to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Greene quoted one of her own posts about Issa on X, formerly Twitter, with a clip of former President Donald Trump saying: “She said he’s a p****.”
Ingraham then noted that an oversight committee hearing “devolved into kindergarten name-calling,” referring to an outburst from Rep. James Comer, a Republican from Kentucky, after he was asked about his family’s finances by Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz.
“You look like a Smurf,” Comer told Moskowitz.
The insult “could be the best line ever,” Ingraham said, before adding that “if those were the undercard bouts, then the Senate held its main event.”
During a congressional hearing, Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma challenged Sean O’Brien, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, to “stand your butt up” and settle a feud right there in the room.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the chairman of the Senate panel holding the hearing, yelled at Mullin to sit down.
“I never thought I’d say this, but Bernie Sanders seems to be the voice of reason here,” Ingraham said.
“Everything you just saw was a complete and utter embarrassment. It shouldn’t be what is projected to our kids from our nation’s Capitol. Reminder to all of you, yeah, the children are watching. You’re supposed to be the adults in the room. So act like it.”
Newsweek has contacted representatives of the Republican lawmakers for comment via email.
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