The incandescent Mike Johnson honeymoon period vanished almost the very moment Republican House members returned to D.C. on Wednesday night. After a long weekend, things are back normal at the Capitol following the first votes of the week—by which I mean Republicans have returned to their policy of open warfare on Twitter, rather than screaming and crying behind closed doors. Here’s who’s at whose throats today:
- Uncivil war: To celebrate his expulsion reprieve, George Santos tangled with one of his leading Congressional critics, Steve Womack, on Twitter/X. The Arkansas congressman compared Santos’s purgatory to Groundhog Day, while Santos went after Womack’s son’s legal troubles. Santos, of course, is not out of the woods yet—the two-thirds vote needed to throw him out of Congress may be delivered shortly after the House Ethics Committee releases a report on his alleged misconduct in the coming weeks.
