Tuesday was an unusually ugly day for House Republicans, even by recent standards: Rep. Tim Burchett accused former speaker Kevin McCarthy of deliberately elbowing him in the kidneys; Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene and James Comer called their fellow members a “pussy” and a “Smurf,” respectively; and nearly half of the caucus voted against Speaker Mike Johnson’s status quo-maintaining continuing resolution because his “laddered C.R.”—a newly invented spending approach that keeps different parts of the government open across multiple deadlines on a rolling basis—didn’t deliver the immediate spending cuts and border security that right-wingers demanded. In the end, Johnson had to rely on 209 Democrats to pass the bill.