Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) likened the catfight that detonated the House Oversight Committee into utter chaos on Thursday to the Jerry Springer Show, but as the war of words between Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) spills into a second week, the utter decadence and moral degradation of Bravo’s “Real Housewives” are probably a closer parallel than the blue-collar tabloid talk show.
As we will later explain, all three women are responsible for disgracing the People’s House in the end, but Greene is solely at fault for triggering the whole spectacle. During an otherwise serious Oversight hearing to debate whether Attorney General Merrick Garland ought to be held in contempt, Greene told Crockett, “I think your fake eyelashes are messing up what you’re reading.”
Everyone should agree that an attack on a woman’s appearance during a congressional proceeding is the worst sort of sexist smear, and Crockett, probably correctly, identified Greene’s remark as a racist dog whistle. While Ocasio-Cortez began with the moral high ground, correctly chastising Greene for attacking the appearance of another member, she sunk to Greene’s level.
“Girl. Baby girl, don’t even play,” the socialist told the psycho. “We are gonna move and take your words down.”
Crockett, too, descended to Greene’s level when Republicans voted not to strike Greene’s remarks from the congressional record.
“I’m just curious, just to better understand your ruling,” Crockett said. “If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach blonde, bad-built, butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”
There you have it: shades of homophobia, whiffs of racism, and a four-course serving of the worst sort of behavior that can only be described as bimbo sexism.
Five days later, Crockett and Greene haven’t shut up about their brawl, and AOC would go on to call Fetterman a bully for framing “racism and misogyny” as a “‘both sides’ issue.” But the truth is the exact opposite. Both sides did engage in the sort of low-IQ, trailer-trash screaming match we’ve come to expect from booze-and-coke-fueled reality television shows, and at least in those shows, the stars are supposed to entertain us with their stupidity. In this case, we had three women using their unprecedented power in the seat of the free world to degrade the entire female sex and set feminism back at least 20 years. That’s a “both sides issue” and crisis for women across the country.
Former first lady Melania Trump often gets a bad rap for her stoicism in the face of screams from press that hate her, but the Real Housewives of Capitol Hill could learn something from the former first lady’s dignified silence, which continues to prove that the only way not to get dirty is to refuse to jump in the pen with the pigs itching for a fight. Or consider the wisdom of Mrs. Trump’s predecessor.
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“When someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you don’t stoop to their level,” then-first lady Michelle Obama said in her famous 2016 speech. “No, our motto is, when they go low, we go high.”
On behalf of the rest of the nation’s fairer sex, we, the women of America, would like to disavow the cretinous conduct of catfighters of Congress. Generations of Founding Mothers, suffragettes, and feminists everywhere did not fight for women to use the Capitol to call each other phony and undesirable. MTG, AOC, and Crockett do a disservice to their constituents and their sex, and the rest of us would be wise to reject them.