Lunatics Are Still Stalking the Hallways of the Capitol

By Charles Pierce, Esquire

15 May 21

he fact that Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy doesn’t walk around the Capitol with a whip and a chair is yet another demonstration of his ineptitude as a circus trainer. From the Washington Post:

Two Washington Post reporters witnessed Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) exit the House chamber late Wednesday afternoon ahead of Greene (Ga.), who shouted “Hey Alexandria” twice in an effort to get her attention. When Ocasio-Cortez did not stop walking, Greene picked up her pace and began shouting at her and asking why she supports antifa, a loosely knit group of far-left activists, and Black Lives Matter, falsely labeling them “terrorist” groups. Greene also shouted that Ocasio-Cortez was failing to defend her “radical socialist” beliefs by declining to publicly debate the freshman from Georgia. “You don’t care about the American people,” Greene shouted. “Why do you support terrorists and antifa?”

Lunatics are still stalking the hallways of the Capitol.

Before walking away, Greene said that the encounter was intended to hold Democrats accountable for their policy proposals. “She’s a chicken, she doesn’t want to debate the Green New Deal,” she said to a small group of reporters and onlookers near the entrance to the chamber. “These members are cowards. They need to defend their legislation to the people. That’s pathetic.”

And then she went to the White House and short-sheeted the Lincoln bedroom.

This is a familiar tactic of the Right. You scream, “DEBATE ME,” at the top of your lungs and, when the other person crosses the road so as to avoid an encounter with an obvious danger to the public welfare, you yell, “CHICKEN,” and make clucking noises while local talk radio and Sean Hannity make you a star. (To name one, Ben Shapiro has made a career out of this grift.) Greene herself was engaging in this behavior before she joined the world’s greatest deliberative body. Here she is, when she was still a civilian, stalking Parkland survivor David Hogg on Capitol Hill. Now she’s got a staff, a congressional pin, and very little to do now that she’s got no bothersome committee assignments to worry about. She can be a full-time stalker. Congress hasn’t had one of those since Preston Brooks.

They’re all insane. Every damn one of them.