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Boebert's race to 'squeeze some money out of the suckers' could backfire with voters tired of the 'crazy': analyst

According to MSNBC analyst Bryan Tyler Cohen, Rep. Lauren Boebert's drive to launch impeachment hearings aimed at President Joe Biden is designed solely as a public relations stunt that she will use for fundraising -- but it could blow up in her face.

Noting her headline-making squabble on the House floor with fellow MAGA Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Cohen wrote that the two battling over who has the inside track of leading the Biden impeachment charge exposed them for who they are and what their motives are.

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'Sure you're not in middle school?' Jen Psaki ridicules Lauren Boebert's House floor antics

Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki took a few jabs at Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday over her House floor antics that led to a confrontation with fellow MAGA Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

Discussing the altercation between the two where Greene called Boebert a "little b--ch," over a dispute over proposing impeachment proceedings against President Joe Biden, MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire called what is going on within the GOP House caucus a "clown show."

That led co-host Joe Scarborough to add, "Jen Psaki, again, the chaos continues in the House. I can't help but think, at the end of the day, all this is going to do is damage the House candidates and turn the House back over to Democrats. "

"Well, exactly," the smiling Psaki replied. "I mean, in some ways, the White House and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee don't have to do much aside from get out of the way."

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"As Jonathan just referenced, their entire message is competence versus chaos. As we just heard, kind of the outline from John Heilemann about the back-and-forth fight between Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene, I mean, Lauren Boebert responded and said, 'I'm not in middle school.' It's like, are you sure you're not in middle school? That's how middle schoolers act, you know?" she laughed.

"If you're the American public sitting at home, you're thinking, 'what a waste of time, what a waste of my time that they are doing there," she added. "That is exactly the contrast that the White House, if you're sitting in the White House right now, my old colleagues there, if you're sitting in the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and you're working with Democratic candidates, you're going to run on, 'We'll do something. We will fight for you the public. That is chaotic and crazy there, and we will not be that.'"

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'This is too stupid': Elise Stefanik's plan to 'rewrite' Trump's history burned by Morning Joe

A resolution filed on Thursday by Reps. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to expunge Donald Trump's historic two impeachments from the Congressional Record was thoroughly demolished on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" early Friday morning, with co-host Joe Scarborough dismissing the topic as "too stupid" to even be considered.

According to a press release from Stefanik's office, the result would be "as if such Articles of Impeachment had never passed the full House of Representatives."

Despite the fact that Stefanik is the chair of the House Republican Conference, it is uncertain whether the rest of the GOP caucus -- particularly lawmakers facing re-election in swing districts -- would agree to go along with what is at best a symbolic act.

Taking up the topic on Friday's "Morning Joe," Scarborough pounced on the efforts by the two MAGA lawmakers as nothing more than a "gesture" designed for personal fundraising for the two.

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In a lively back-and-forth with co-host Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough began, "The reason Donald Trump won't win a general election is he's always talking about the past, not the future. That is what has defined him the past several years. Now, you have the House, again, just in absolute chaos. now, what are they doing? Looking back. They're trying to do something they can't do, which is --- an un-impeachment process?"

"Elise Stefanik and Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced a pair of resolutions seeking to expunge the impeachment votes against former president Donald Trump. Stefanik's office said in a press release that it would be, quote, 'as if such articles of impeachment had never passed the full House of Representatives," his co-host reported.

"Gesture, gesture, all they do are gestures," Scarborough interjected.

"It's totally unclear if resolutions are even legally possible, House practices offer no guidance," Brzezinski continued which led Scarborough to interrupt, "I'm sorry, this is too stupid. I don't even want to read this story."

"It's so stupid," Brzezinski agreed before focusing on Stefanik and remarking, "What has happened to this woman? We already know about Marjorie Taylor Greene, she came baked into the cake -- but what the heck?"

"Just shameless, but that's okay, that's okay. This is so stupid," Scarborough replied.

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GOP hardliners push to purge Marjorie Taylor Greene from House Freedom Caucus: report

Republican hardliners in the House Freedom Caucus reportedly don't think Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is enough of a right-wing ideologue for their standards.

Politico reports that two Freedom Caucus members recently pushed for the group to start purging members who are inactive or who are too cozy with Republican leadership -- and that includes Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who has been accused by some on the right of cozying up to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) at the expense of her right-wing purity.

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Swing-district Republicans seethe over far-right 'temper tantrums' that could endanger their jobs

A new report from CNN reveals that Republican lawmakers from swing districts are getting increasingly fed up with their colleagues' insistence on pushing them to vote right-wing messaging bills that have no chance of becoming law.

According to CNN, GOP hardliners such as Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) have been trying to force votes on measures such as impeaching President Joe Biden that would require the votes of Republicans from districts that Biden won in 2020 to pass.

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'You've been yapping your lips': Former RNC chairman condemns far-right Biden impeachment attempt

Former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Thursday assailed far-right elements in his party over efforts to impeach President Joe Biden.

Steele’s comments followed a House vote Thursday to send a resolution to impeach Biden introduced by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) the previous day to committee, which effectively paused a privileged motion that would have compelled a vote on the House floor, CNN reports.

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'Rewriting history': Democrat slams GOP for plan to erase Trump’s impeachments

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) hit the "Do Nothing Congress" with accusations that they are more focused on their own political fantasies than doing the work they're paid by taxpayers to do.

Fox reporter Chad Pergram tweeted that Republican House Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) have introduced resolutions to "formally expunge records of House impeachments for [Donald] Trump in 2019 and 2021."

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'You need to shut up': MTG ripped into Boebert after being accused of spitting on her

Following a report from the Daily Beast that Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) got into an argument on the House floor in which the Georgia Republican was heard calling her counterpart a "little b--ch," Greene sat down with Semafor to explain what went down.

In an interview with Kadia Goba, Greene said, "She has genuinely been a nasty little b--ch to me,” and complained that her House colleague was disrupting GOP efforts to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) with her desire to push the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

Speaking with Semafor, Greene complained that Boebert was only interested in promoting herself because she is trying to boost her fundraising, adding, "I told her exactly what I think about her.”

“It’s purely for fundraising,” Greene explained. “It's throwing out red meat so that people will donate to her campaign because she's coming up on the end of the month, and she's trying to produce good fundraising numbers.”

The report adds that Boebert also accused Greene of spitting on her.

"Greene said that at one point in the fight, parts of which were caught from afar on video, Boebert accused the Georgia lawmaker of accidentally spitting on her lip," Semafor's Goba wrote. "Then, toward the end of the exchange, Boebert tried to re-engage her, but she cut the conversation off. 'I said ‘you need to shut up because the only person that’s recognized to speak right now is Luna,' she told Semafor, referring to Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., who was then giving a speech on the floor."

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'Dishonorable, dishonest and unserious': MSNBC's Lemire blasts GOP's Biden impeachment talk

During a Thursday morning appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," a normally unflappable Johnathan Lemire went off on a tirade aimed at House Republicans for wasting time trying to rally support for the impeachment of President Joe Biden.

Coming after Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) suggested she will continue to push for impeachment hearings, Lemire lashed out at her antics while the GOP sits back and allows her to waste everyone's time.

"Oh, my god, thank god we don't have a $31 trillion debt that Donald Trump basically gave us and these same Republicans gave us," host Joe Scarborough prompted before noting reports that Boebert and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) are in open warfare with other over who should be leading the charge for impeachment.

"It's dishonorable, dishonest and unserious," Lemire exclaimed. "That is what this is -- this is unserious. It is not a party that is showing any interest in governing; it is just about gestures and playing to the lowest common denominator, whether it's the Fox News viewer, the podcast listener or the person who will write them a check for their next campaign."

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"There's no Biden crime family, but it's not stopping the Republicans from trying to spin this up into something, to do Donald Trump's bidding in terms of censuring Adam Schiff yesterday," he added. "This is rare. It's only happened three times this century. The last representative to be censured: Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) two years ago. He tweeted out an animated image of him murdering a colleague, a Democratic congresswoman, and threatening to kidnap President Biden."

"He was censured, rightly, for that behavior," he added. "Adam Schiff was censured for this behavior; the behavior of simply doing his job, of investigating Donald Trump's behavior. They dropped the $16 million fine that was on the table last week, but he still has now been censured."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene swears at Lauren Boebert on House floor amid growing feud, report says

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene reportedly called her colleague Lauren Boebert a “little bitch” on the House floor Wednesday. The performative lawmakers from Georgia and Colorado, respectively, were involved in what appeared to be a tense exchange when the Daily Beast said the harsh verbiage occurred. “I’ve donated to you, I’ve defended you,” Greene reportedly said. “But you’ve been nothing but a little bitch to me.” Their conflict reportedly ended with Boebert telling Green they were “through,” with the Georgia lawmaker snapping back, “We were never together.” The pair infamously teamed ...

Capitol rioter stuns reporter with 'one of the most self-deluded statements' ever in court

Capitol rioter Danny Rodriguez stunned a reporter on Wednesday when he went on a long diatribe during his sentencing hearing.

According to WUSA9 reporter Jordan Fischer, Rodriguez's apparent plea for leniency was "easily one of the most self-deluded statements I've heard in any of these Jan. 6 sentencings."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene snipes at 'copycat' Lauren Boebert for stealing her Biden impeachment idea: report

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appears unhappy that fellow MAGA Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is taking the lead on her years-long quest to impeach President Joe Biden.

According to CNN's Manu Raju, Greene on Wednesday accused Boebert of essentially swiping the articles of impeachment that she had previously drafted – and even went so far as to call her a "copycat."

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Romney rebuffs MAGA crowd and backs DOJ over Hunter Biden plea deal

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) on Tuesday dismissed assertions by fellow Republicans that Hunter Biden’s plea deal with the Department of Justice on tax charges casts doubt on the agency’s ability to fairly prosecute political figures and their family members.

The 2012 Republican presidential nominee told CNN’s Manu Raju, “This is the sort of thing for which there are typically plea deals that are executed."

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