Representative Matt Gaetz is emerging from last week’s bitter speaker fight as the member of Congress everyone in Washington loves to hate.
While he pegged Kevin McCarthy as “the biggest alligator in the swamp” and the “masthead of the lobbying corps” whose bid for House speaker was an “exercise in vanity,” Gaetz’s fellow Republicans want the Florida lawmaker to know they think he’s a “D-lister” and a “narcissist.”
Welcome to the initial days of the Republican-controlled House where an ideologically diverse GOP and tight vote margin mean that the insults are seemingly here to stay.
