What do you call two Congresswomen who engage in a public cat fight? It is a Freedom Caucus rupture

(And in this corner....!)...the Lauren Boebert vs. Marjorie Taylor Greene fight isn't just happening in a ladies' bathroom anymore — it's out on the House floor and uglier than before.

So, let me get this right? Congresswoman (former night shift street walker) Marjorie Taylor Greene was so bad that she was voted out of her own right wing caucus?  In other words, MTG is too extreme even for the extremists?  Now out in the public, Boebert and Greene have actually been feuding for months.  (Reported by Cheryl Teh for Insider)

The House Freedom Caucus voted to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene from the pro-Trump group last month, a member confirmed Thursday, indicating that her fight with Rep. Lauren Boebert was part of the group’s reasoning.

Decorum is not in their vocabulary

Marjorie Taylor Greene Sh-t-Talking Lauren Boebert Apparently a Bridge Too Far for Freedom Caucus, reported by Eric Lutz in Vanity Fair.

“A vote was taken to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene from the House Freedom Caucus for some of the things she’s done,” said Freedom Caucus board member Rep. Andy Harris (R-Md.). When asked if she was formally out, he replied: “As far as I know, that is the way it is

It’s the first public confirmation of Greene’s fate within the conservative group. (AhhhHa.....a right wing political cat fight!)

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert behave like politically rabid ladies of the night.

The vote was first reported by POLITICO, though it was unclear at the time whether she had been ejected. It took place less than two days after Greene got into a verbal floor fight with Freedom Caucus member Boebert, during which Greene referred to the Colorado Republican as a “little bitch.” After the exchange was first reported, Greene confirmed the fight and doubled down, adding another pejorative.

The two have clashed repeatedly in the past, but Harris indicated that particular spat had factored into the conservative group’s thinking.

“I think the way she referred to a fellow member was probably not the way we expect our members to refer to other fellow, especially female, members,” Harris said Thursday. The Maryland Republican declined to say how he voted but called the decision to remove her “an appropriate action.”

It’s the first time the conservative caucus has booted one of its own and reflects the group’s increasing level of frustration with Greene. She’s closely allied herself with Speaker Kevin McCarthy this year, lining up against many Freedom Caucus members when she supported both his rocky speakership bid and his debt deal with President Joe Biden. At the same time, the group is working through a post-Trump crossroads, with some fretting the group is at risk of becoming too friendly with the party establishment.

Asked if her support for McCarthy and the debt deal fed into the decision to remove her from the group, Harris replied: “I think all of that mattered.”

“I think the straw that broke the camel’s back was publicly saying things about another member in terms that no one should,” he said.

A Freedom Caucus spokesperson declined to comment on Greene’s status, noting that the group doesn’t comment on membership or internal processes. 

For her part, Greene did not directly address her Freedom Caucus membership in a statement on Thursday, instead saying that: “In Congress, I serve Northwest Georgia first, and serve no group in Washington.”

“The GOP has less than two years to show America what a strong, unified Republican-led Congress will do when President Trump wins the White House, in 2024. This is my focus, nothing else,” she added.

Greene typically attends the group’s weekly off-campus meeting. But that closed-door gathering is limited to members, meaning she would no longer be able to attend.

While it’s the first time the group has formally voted to remove a member from its ranks, she’s not the first to leave. Then-Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan previously quit the group in 2019, and left the Republican Party shortly after. Harris noted that there was “one other member a couple of years ago, who we probably would have asked to leave, but we just decided not to.”

And it might not end at Greene. There’s been discussion about targeting a handful of members beyond the Georgia Republican, who critics see as violating group standards by being inactive. 

House Freedom Caucus Chair Rep. Scott Perry (R-Pa.) previously told POLITICO that he had denied those purge requests, which came before the vote to remove Greene.

“The speaker’s race, there was some difference in opinion. The debt ceiling, there were differences of opinion. And we had to get 80 percent on any major issue that we take positions on,” Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), a Freedom Caucus member, previously told POLITICO, referring to the threshold needed for the group to take a unified stance. “On some big issues, we have not been able to get there.”

The group is currently at the center of the fight over government funding as they try to push McCarthy and members of leadership to go below levels set in the debt deal and to hold the line when he, ultimately, has to negotiate with the White House and Senate Democrats.

Though the group is largely unified on wanting lower spending, they’ve also haggled in private about what their strategy should be after they cut a deal with McCarthy to end a weeklong standoff that ground the House floor to a halt.

Harris, however, argued that, after booting Greene, there were no other remaining “large divisions” and praised Perry.

“This wasn’t even a speed bump,” Harris added. 

Olivia Beavers contributed to this report.

Republicans must "tell the truth" in preparation for mid-terms 2022

Former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie says that #TFG tRump should move on and 'tell the truth' about the 2020, presidential election: 

Echo news published in Business Insider, reported by Cheryl Teh.
https://www.businessinsider.com/chris-christie-says-trump-should-tell-truth-2020-election-2021-11?fbclid=IwAR0i5QpmiwBPC-gZtGGOVJZ7uCWKd1VkteHbthB2hhqnU-uQUlPhPLdAx_Y

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said #TFG Donald Trump needs to "tell the truth" about the 2020, election and move on.

Christie also had advice for the GOP, saying that if it wants to build on electoral wins — like Glenn Youngkin's win in Virginia's heated gubernatorial race last week — Republicans need to move past Trump's voter-fraud claims.

In an interview with CNN this weekend, Christie said he thought Trump could be a "very positive force for Republican candidates" in the 2022, midterm elections if he would start "talking about the future and tell the truth about the election and move on."

The former governor spoke to CNN after a Las Vegas event where he addressed supporters at the Republican Jewish Coalition conference. According to the Coalition's website, among the big GOP names at the three-day event were former Vice President Mike Pence, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.  (Maine Writer- HELLO? So, where was The Former Guy?)

Christie told CNN that with the midterms coming up, Trump must decide if he wants to be "a leader for tomorrow or a figure of yesterday."

"We can no longer talk about the past and the past elections — no matter where you stand on that issue, no matter where you stand, it is over," Christie said at the conference, per CNN. "People want us to be direct with them. They want someone to fight for them. But they want them to fight in a way that doesn't hurt their ears."

Christie has broken with Trump in the past on the latter's baseless allegations of voter fraud. 

In fact, last December, Christie called for Trump and the GOP to "accept defeat" after "no evidence" surfaced of electoral fraud.

In September, Christie also asked Republicans to "face the realities of the 2020, election and learn, not hide from them."

"​​We need to renounce the conspiracy theorists and the truth deniers. The ones who know better and the ones who are just plain nuts," Christie said at a September 9 event at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, per CNN. "We need to give our supporters facts that will help them put all those fantasies to rest."

There is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020, election, and the Trump camp's lawsuits alleging voter fraud in states including Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania have failed.

Even so, the former president has continued to call for vote audits in various states. On October 15, Trump called for a vote recount in Pima County, Arizona's second-most populous county after Maricopa County. Trump has also continued to claim the Cyber Ninjas' vote recount in Maricopa County uncovered "undeniable evidence" of fraud, despite the Republican-driven audit confirming that President Joe Biden beat Trump by 261 more votes than were initially counted.

Christie, who ran for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016, told CNN he would wait until after the midterms to see if he wants to throw his hat into the ring in 2024. He said his decision would hinge on whether he believes he has "the talent, the skill and the ability to be able to win," and not be based on whether Trump is running or not.

Moreover, the former governor has been mired in his fair share of scandals, too. In the 2013, Bridgegate scandal, Christie's staff members were indicted for purposefully closing lanes on the George Washington Bridge to cause massive traffic jams, a move that was theorized to be a retributive political attack on Mark Sokolich, the Democrat mayor of Fort Lee, New Jersey.

Christie was formerly a Trump ally, having supported the former president in 2016, and 2020. He has since blasted Trump's legal team and called them a "national embarrassment," and  slammed Trump's conduct following the January 6, Capitol riot.