INSULT OF THE YEAR 2024:...Georgia Firecracker Marjorie Taylor Greene Gets It Face-Up...Rare In The Hallowed History Of Our Usually-Sedate Congress... Texan Jasmine Crockett Shuts Her Up...

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...Excuse me while I laugh one more time. It's been one rough year for national politics and, well, most of it has been about putting up with childish silliness and high school antics from our so-called leaders, not a one exactly the dude or gal we'd follow into battle.

But we persevere here.

The Academy award-worthy scene was a rare late-night meeting in Congress of the House Oversight Committee a week ago yesterday, its odd scheduling due to one of those selfish, self-serving actions by our congressmen that have nothing to do with legislating, i.e. visits to the trial in New York of one Donald J. Trump, oft-indicted leader of the errant Republican Party these days.

There discussing the meeting's long agenda was Republican Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, perhaps antsy to get done with business at hand, scolding Texas Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett, who'd asked for clarification from Committee Chairman James Comer.

Forty-nine-year-old Marjorie for some reason opted to lay blame on Crockett's concerns by noting her "fake eyelashes" as one reason why she could not make sense out of the written material being discussed.

Uh, big mistake from the trailer park queen Taylor Greene.

Without wasting one second, Crockett, a Democrat who holds the Tx-District 30 seat once occupied by the legendary Eddie Bernice Johnson, a firebrand of a more intellectual bent, tore into Taylor Greene with the insult that backed Washington, D.C. on its heels and still rings as the Putdown Of The Year.

Crockett, 43, a graduate of the University of Houston School of Law, called her a "bleach blonde, bad build, butch body."

The world of political insults will never be the same again.

It roared out of the nation's capital and into the comedy routines of late-night television.

The Internet swelled like Sophie Tucker never did. It was high humor of the killing kind.

Taylor Greene is used to being the insulter, the one throwing her rural shit at everybody else's face, and she's good at it. A trucker's loud voice is her talent. There is no doubt that loudmouth Marjorie will weather this hellacious hit, however. She will be back.

But for one glorious moment-in-time, her ass was thrown up against the wall, where it flattened before sliding down like ice cream melting all the way to the floor.

Thank you, Congresswoman Crockett...

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