Members of Congress are seeking to avoid a government shutdown by the end of the week and thousands of demonstrators have gathered on the Capitol lawn in support of Israel, but the real theatrics have been in the resentments that have come to near physical or actual blows.
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) accused former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy of elbowing him in the kidney as Burchett was doing an interview today with NPR.
Burchett was one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy as speaker last month. The NPR congressional correspondent, Claudia Grisales, posted a play-by-play of what she saw happened.
She wrote that as she was interviewing Burchett, McCarthy walked by with his security detail and “McCarthy shoved Burchett.” Burchett lunged toward her, she wrote, but she thought it “was a joke.” She wrote, “Burchett responded jokingly as McCarthy kept walking, ‘Sorry Kevin didn’t mean to elbow –‘ then seriously yelled, ‘why’d you elbow me in the back Kevin?!
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