It’s been just under two-and-a-half months since the Republican Red Trickle gave them a slim majority in the US House of Representatives, and they’ve wasted no time showing us what they think governance looks like. In fewer than  75 days, these are some of the wonders we’ve seen.

Jim Jordan, a congressman  whose volume control seems to be stuck on “loud” and whose  EQ seems to be stuck on “angry,” is chairing a committee on the “weaponization of the DOJ.” Jordan, who, in 2019, was called “the second most despicable human being in the US  government” by the Cleveland Plain Dealer (a major paper in Jordan’s home state), is now attempting to grab headlines by accusing government officials of dodging subpoenas, just as he did when the January 6 committee wanted to hear from him.

Among the things he’s investigating or wants to investigate is why the DOJ hasn’t appointed a special prosecutor to look into the Hunter Biden laptop case. He might want to ask his friend Donald Trump about that. The laptop has been in the hands of Trump’s friends or Trump’s administration since 2019. Then, of course, there’s the fact that Hunter Biden is not and has not been employed by his father’s administration, either when Joe Biden was vice president or president.

So far, he hasn’t demonstrated—to use his phrase—a legitimate legislative purpose.

Then, of course, there’s House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who really, really wanted to be elected speaker, to the point he bartered away an unknown amount of speaker power for votes. It still took vote after vote, well into the double digits, for McCarthy to get elected. Because he turned the speakership election into a bazaar, we got a lot of strange things, including Marjorie Taylor Greene being hailed as one of the most influential Republicans in the House. (More about her later.)

However, the strangest thing in roughly two months of his speakership is his turning the January 6 video over to Tucker Carlson and attempting to justify it by saying, “I said at the very beginning: transparency. What I wanted to produce for everyone was exactly what I said so people could look at it and see what went on that day." He is, of course, talking about someone who has admitted lying to his viewers about the 2020 election and who works for a corporation that has admitted to widespread lying.

The fact that McCarthy did not make the video files “public” but exclusive to Carlson shows both a definite bias and a startling lack of good sense. McCarthy had to know when he turned the files over, Carlson would attempt to reconstruct the narrative. And he did, claiming that there were people in the crowd who did not perform criminal acts. But we already knew that,  and they are not among the nearly 1000 people who have been or will be prosecuted for crimes. As David Graham wrote in The Atlantic, “Look at the hallways they didn’t smear feces on and statues they didn’t deface! is not an especially good argument.”

One newly elected Republican congressman who has made a substantial impact is  George  Santos, the representative from New York’s 3^rd congressional district. He hasn’t sponsored any major legislation yet, but he has inspired one of the internet’s most popular games: who is George Santos today? So far, Santos has been found to have lied about where he went to school, where he worked, his ethnicity, owning rental properties, his athletic accomplishments, how and when his mother died, and his campaign finances. Probably the truest thing he said was, when he was accused of leading an ATM skimming scam in Brazil, was, “I am no mastermind.” Right.

And, finally, there is the aforementioned Marjorie Taylor Greene. This is the congresslady who complained about being verbally attacked in a restaurant. Her complaint resurrected the video of her yelling at David Hogg as she followed him down a public street. She also wants Kyle Rittenhouse to have the Congressional Gold Medal, congresses’ highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions.  Twenty-first-century recipients have included Charles Schulz, Pope John Paul II, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, the Navajo Code Talkers, Jackie Robinson, Dr. Martin Luther and  Coretta Scott King, the Tuskegee Airmen, the Dalai Lama, astronauts, and the victims of September 11.  Not another soul who brought an AR-15 into a volatile situation.

She is also the person who, after taking an oath of office to protect and defend the country and the constitution, called for a “national divorce,” with Red States separated from Blue  States. She didn’t say who would be awarded custody of the national debt.

However, Marjorie Taylor Greene may best be remembered for screaming “Liar!” at President Biden during the State of the Union address. The picture of her in her Cruella de Vil fir-collar coat will persist for years, probably because we are so fond of the grotesque. While it’s true that Democrat’s booed and corrected Trump during the State of the Union, I could find no other reference where a  congressperson actually lied when she called the president a liar. As Biden pointed out, the documentation for his statement is easy to find.

Certainly, it will be an interesting two years and possibly more. A party that not only elects but re-elects the likes of Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren  Boebert, Jim Jordan, George Santos, and others whose combined IQs don’t exceed the residential limit can create situations, promote theories, and mount attacks that rational minds will never fathom.

It simply proves that when you send in the clowns, you get a circus.

Pray for the  Republic.