The biggest question on Capitol Hill this week is whether the meanest, toughest people in the country come from Oklahoma or Tenneseee?
California
Perhaps you’re dreamin’.
“I’m a guy from Oklahoma first,” said Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., a former MMA fighter on Fox News Radio.
Mullin rose from his seat on the dais during a Senate hearing to challenge Teamsters President Sean O’Brien to a fistfight. Mullin even loosened his wedding ring. That signaled that he was serious about throwing haymakers with O’Brien.
Mullin’s staff tells Fox that as a former pro fighter, the senator knows that “if he hit something with a ring on, his hand would likely swell up.”
Mullin stared down at O’Brien, towering above the witness table from the dais where senators sit.
“You don’t run your mouth like that in Oklahoma unless you’re willing to stand up and back it up,” said Mullin of O’Brien. “He just ran his mouth off to the wrong person.”
Don’t mess with Oklahoma
Texas is not pleased.
Rep. Tim Burchett, R-Tenn., says that former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., deliberately elbowed him in the kidneys this week. NPR Congressional Correspondent Claudia Grisales recorded the exchange as she interviewed Burchett.
“Why’d you elbow me in the back, Kevin?” hollered Burchett at McCarthy, before pursuing the Speaker and his United States Capitol Police security detail down a Congressional corridor. “Hey Kevin, you got any guts?”
Burchett was one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy from the Speakership last month.
“What kind of chicken move is that? You’re pathetic, man,” yelled Burchett at the former Speaker. “You’re a jerk. You need security, Kevin.”
You’ve heard Mullin opine on how Okies settle things mano-a-mano. But how do the gentlemen handle business in the Volunteer State?
“It’s just a little different with the way people react in Tennessee than they do in California,” declared Burchett. “In Tennessee, if you’ve got a problem with somebody, you take it to him face to face. I guess in Southern California, where (McCarthy’s) from, you take a cheap shot at somebody from behind.”
Know thy enemy, suggested Sun Tzu in the Art of War.
