Things certainly are testy up on Capitol Hill these days, where Republicans are relentlessly sniping at each other and even delivering kidney punches to their adversaries. It started with the tussle between Kevin McCarthy and Tim Burchett, with Burchett claiming McCarthy delivered "a clean [elbow] shot to the kidneys," and now Marjorie Taylor Greene is escalating an already-tense atmosphere by calling Darell Issa a "p---y."

It's all political payback, of course. Burchett was one of the "hateful eight" that voted in October to remove McCarthy as speaker. Just last week, McCarthy, in some of his first comments since losing the speakership, said detractors like Burchett turned on him because they "just want the press and the personality." McCarthy apparently felt the need to accentuate this sentiment with a sharp elbow to the kidney on Tuesday.

Fresh off the defeat of her motion to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, MTG decided to forgo a physical confrontation with the object of her ire and went with the inflammatory tweet option instead. 

Here's what happened: Issa commented on why he thought MTG's impeachment effort had failed, and a reporter shared his statement on X/Twitter:

“Marjorie Taylor Greene is a hard working member of Congress, but I believe she lacks the maturity and the experience to understand what she was asking for”

MTG, who clearly saw things differently and was not in the mood for Issa's advice, responded in kind:

https://t.co/BKnV2GaR6x pic.twitter.com/V4IMVNW82i

— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 14, 2023

The brief clip shows Donald Trump saying, "She said he's a p---y." MTG is a close ally of Trump's.

Issa said he voted against MTG's impeachment effort, in part, because, "The history of privileged resolutions is that they’re brought by the majority leader or the minority leader. Privileged resolutions are not — have not historically been — brought by one member. And when they do come from one member, they’re most often referred to committee, as it was yesterday." 

As RedState previously reported, MTG bypassed party leadership to introduce articles of impeachment against Mayorkas because two of her constituents were killed in a collision that occurred while law enforcement was chasing a suspected human smuggler. Eight people died in that collision, including five illegals. 

Not one to be cowed by the opposition, especially in her own party, MTG made it clear she would not be backing down, having some harsh words for her eight colleagues who, like Issa, killed the Mayorkas impeachment effort: "How many more Americans have to die while you claim impeachment has to be done the “right way?” My articles have been rotting in committee and now go back on the shelf. Your excuses are pathetic!"