Out Rep. George Santos (R-NY) continues to be the subject of beltway humor, but now an unlikely humorist is coming for him: Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC).
“Really, who lies about playing college volleyball?” she quipped about Santos at the Washington Press Club Foundation’s 77th annual congressional dinner last night. “Like, who does that? If you’re going to lie, at least make it about something big, like you actually won the 2020 presidential election.”
Mace apparently had another joke ready to go about Santos that Politico saw in her folder: “I know George Santos hoped to deliver tonight’s keynote. But organizers wanted someone who could TELL a joke. Not BE one.”
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) also took a shot at Santos’s claims about his family’s heritage.
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“I’m the first Jewish Majority Leader,” Schumer said. “But, I am not just Jew-ish like some other New Yorkers in Congress. I’m Jewish! I’m the real thing, baby!”
Mace – who does not support LGBTQ+ equality – was apparently on fire.
“I know everyone thinks Republicans aren’t funny,” she said. “But if you get a bunch of us together, we can be a real riot.”
“Recently, there’s been a lot of talk about antisemitism,” Mace joked. “But since Marjorie Taylor Greene started behaving, the rate of Jewish space laser attacks is now zero.”
“Let’s be honest: We all knew Matt Gaetz wouldn’t let the speaker vote get to 18,” she said. “I do have a message from Matt — he really wanted to be here tonight, but he couldn’t find a babysitter.”
“C’mon George, you give Republicans a bad name,” Mace had written in her folder in a joke that was originally about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) but that she penciled in Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) name instead. “And that’s Lauren Boebert’s job. Just kidding. Don’t shoot me!”
CNN’s Capitol Hill reporter Mel Zanona saw Rep. Greene say “She’s good!” to a reporter when Mace was telling her jokes.
