In her speech before the Washington Press Club Foundation, Rep. Nancy Mace launched into an uncommonly sharp comedic monologue that skewered just about everyone from gun-loving Rep. Lauren Boebert to progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar.
“I love exercising First Amendment rights and have fun doing it,” Mace told Yahoo News on Wednesday morning, as news articles chronicled her colorful routineDonald Trump, Joe Biden, defeated Senate candidate Herschel Walker: Nobody was seemingly spared from Mace’s fusillade of barbs — not even the press, which hosted the lavish proceedings at the Waldorf Astoria, formerly, the Trump Hotel.
“To all the New York Times reporters, good evening,” Mace said near the opening of a 12-minute affair that quickly revealed itself to be less C-SPAN speech than Comedy Central roast. “And to everybody from the Washington Post, good luck on your job search,” she said in reference to the newspaper’s recent layoffs.
She added of McCarthy: “I haven't seen some of those in that many positions to appease crazy Republicans since Stormy Daniels,” a reference to former President Donald Trump’s alleged onetime paramour, an adult actress. Mining his legal troubles for easy laughs, Mace said that Gaetz “really, really wanted to be here tonight, but he couldn’t find a babysitter.”Another easy target was embattled fabulist Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., who has emerged as an embarrassment for congressional Republicans since his long list of biographical lies emerged.
Mace carried a printed version of her remarks in a folder marked “Classified,” according to Politico, though her remarks quickly — and predictably — made their way across social media.
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