A brief history of the tension between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert

It's getting ugly folks

(Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Greene)

At first glance, you would think that Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Lauren Boebert of Colorado would be close allies.

After all both are ardent supporters of former president Donald Trump. And believers in the false conspiracy theory that Trump won the election. And members of the Trumpist House Freedom Caucus.

You would be, um, wrong.

On Wednesday, the two got into a verbal spat — ostensibly over Boebert’s move to use House rules to force a vote on her resolution to impeach President Joe Biden.

Greene reportedly called Boebert a “little bitch” adding: “You copied my articles of impeachment after I asked you to cosponsor them.”

“OK, Marjorie, we’re through,” Boebert responded, according to the Daily Beast, which first reported on the exchange

​​Greene then said: “We were never together.”

OH SNAP.

Greene has been agitating for Biden’s impeachment for a while now. In mid May, she introduced articles of impeachment — accusing Biden of “endangering the security of the United States and thwarting the will of Congress.”¹

What appears to be happening here then is MTG is pissed off that Boebert is stealing her thunder.

Both Greene and Boebert are part of a new era of Republican politicians — those who measure their successes based on how many Fox News appearances they get as opposed to how many bills they pass.

Being the face of the impeachment efforts against Joe Biden is conservative cable TV gold — and both want to lay claim to that title.

Wednesday’s confrontation is far from the first between the two conservative firebrands.

The two repeatedly butted heads over the vote for Kevin McCarthy as Speaker.

In a speech in late 2022, Boebert said of the push to make McCarthy speaker:
“I don’t believe in this. Just like I don’t believe in… Jewish space lasers.”

That’s a reference to a 2018 Facebook post by Greene in which she attributed California wildfires to a laser funded by the Rothschilds. (Yes, that really happened.)

In response to that shot from Boebert, Greene dismissed it as “high school drama” and added that the Colorado Republican “childishly threw me under the bus for a cheap sound bite.”

Greene couldn’t resist a barb at Boebert, however, noting that “Kevin McCarthy has supported and donated to Lauren Boebert. She just barely came through by 500 votes.”

(Boebert won reelection extremely narrowly in 2022 despite the clear Republican lean of her seat.)

When the two returned to Congress in early January they, again, clashed — this time in the women’s bathroom just off the floor of the House. (Again, yes this really happened.)

As the Daily Beast reported:

“Greene questioned Boebert’s loyalty to McCarthy, and after a few words were exchanged, Boebert stormed out,” a source familiar with the fight told The Daily Beast.

According to another source familiar, while in the bathroom, Greene asked Boebert, “You were OK taking millions of dollars from McCarthy but you refuse to vote for him for Speaker, Lauren?”

The first source said Greene was in a stall and, upon coming out, confronted Boebert about taking money from McCarthy for her re-election and then turning against McCarthy when it came time to vote. The Colorado Republican was allegedly unaware that Greene was also in the bathroom at the time.

“That’s when Lauren said, ‘Don’t be ugly,’” the first source said, before she—in the words of this source—“ran out like a little schoolgirl.”

Which, wow! (Boebert eventually voted “present” on the 15th ballot for Speaker, allowing McCarthy to win.)

What explains the obvious tensions between the two Members of Congress?

Well remember when you were a kid and there was another kid you didn’t get along with and your mom said it was because you were too alike?

Yeah, it’s that.

Boebert and Greene are eerily similar — both elected in 2020, both bomb throwers by nature and both far more interested in being someone in Congress than doing something in Congress.

What we have seen play out over the past year or so is a battle for supremacy; there can only be one Trumpiest member of Congress and both Boebert and Greene want that title. Badly.

My educated guess is that we haven’t seen the last of the clashes between the two. They will continue to try to out-Trump each other for the remainder of their time in Congress. And we’ll keep writing about it.

1. Greene has been pushing for Biden’s impeachment for years now. She filed several measures to impeach Biden when Democrats controlled the House from 2020 to 2022.