Marjorie Taylor Greene tried to attack a Democrat who called her dumb. It blew up in her face.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tried to attack Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) after he insulted her in Congress, but she wasn’t ready for his reply.

McGovern was speaking at a hearing yesterday and brought up Greene’s recent resolution to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) for, according to Greene, promising in Somali that Congress would “protect the interests of Somalia” over those of the U.S. in a speech to a roomful of Somali supporters last week. The Minnesota Star-Tribune employs a reporter who actually speaks Somali who said that Omar said nothing of the sort.

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Greene also introduced a resolution to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, which the House Rules Committee debated at a hearing yesterday. McGovern, the Democratic ranking member of that committee, railed against Republicans for taking orders from Greene and then went into a long list of the various conspiracy theories and outrageous statements Greene has made in the past.

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And he ended with: “The clowns are gunning the circus around here and we’re wasting hours and hours of time this week on Marjorie Taylor Greene because what? She wants to impeach somebody. And don’t even get me started on her absurd censure resolution of Congresswoman Omar that she introduced because she doesn’t know how to use Google Translate.”

McGovern: The clowns are running the circus. We’re wasting time on Marjorie Taylor Greene because she wants to impeach someone. Don’t get me started on her absurd censure resolution of Congresswoman Omar that she introduced because she doesn’t know how to use google translate pic.twitter.com/pirB8727vI

— Acyn (@Acyn) February 5, 2024

Greene, ignoring the substance of what McGovern accused her of, responded to McGovern on X in a convoluted post that accused him of putting his suit jacket on the men’s room floor.

“Wow this is coming from the same guy who is well known to lay his suit jacket on the actual bathroom floor while spending a lot of time in the stall of the first floor bathroom of the Capitol,” Greene wrote. “Eww.”

“This is probably when he comes up with all this [feces emoji].”

“No idea what you’re talking about… what are you doing in the men’s bathroom,” McGovern quipped. “aren’t you late for a klan meeting?”

No idea what you’re talking about… what are you doing in the men’s bathroom aren’t you late for a klan meeting? https://t.co/G9SkNa2GQa

— Rep. Jim McGovern (@RepMcGovern) February 6, 2024

The rumor that Omar was pledging allegiance to Somalia at the event started last week when rightwing social media accounts said that she said, “The U.S. government will only do what Somalians in the U.S. tell them to do. They will do what we want and nothing else. They must follow our orders and that is how we will safeguard the interest of Somalia… together we will protect the interests of Somalia.”

What she actually said, according to the Star-Tribune’s Somali-speaking journalist, was very different.

“My answer was the U.S. government will do what we tell the U.S. government to do. We as Somalis should have that confidence in ourselves,” Omar said. “We live in this country. We pay taxes in this country. It’s a country where one of your own sits in Congress. As long as I’m in Congress, no one will take Somalia’s sea. And the United States will not support other people to rob us. Rest assured Minnesotans. The woman you sent to Congress is aware of you and has the same interest as you.”

But that didn’t stop Greene from introducing a resolution to censure Omar, accusing her of “openly admitting her efforts to advance Somalia’s interests” and making “treasonous statements.” When she introduced the resolution on the House floor, she referred to Omar as “Ilhan Omar of Somalia, I mean, Minnesota.”

Omar said that Greene’s resolution is “rooted in xenophobia and Islamophobia.” Omar’s accusation was supported by Greene accusing Omar of having married her brother on social media just last week. The false rumor that Omar married her brother is based on Islamophobic stereotypes, has floated around the right for years, and has been repeatedly debunked.

Greene wants to impeach Mayorkas for, among other things, allegedly not doing enough to detain undocumented immigrants coming into the U.S. Greene has already called lawmakers who support the current immigration bill that Congress is debating – which would increase border security – “traitors to our country.”