March 29, 2022 02:06 PM UTC

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• by: Colorado Pols

Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is not very good at not talking when he shouldn’t be talking. It is a trait he shares with many of his fellow Qaucus members in the House of Representatives, including Colorado’s own Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert (R-ifle).

Last week Cawthorn got blasted on social media for taking credit for federal money coming to his district that he actually voted against. This is a thing that many of his Republican colleagues — including Boebert — have been doing lately.

Cawthorn has now drawn the ire of fellow Republicans for a different set of inappropriate comments, which led to some pretty hilarious responses. First, let’s set the stage with The New York Post:

Rep. Madison Cawthorn says his fellow lawmakers have invited him to take part in orgies in Washington and snorted lines of cocaine right in front of him.

Cawthorn, a 26-year-old Republican from North Carolina, was asked in an interview last Thursday about whether the former Netflix series “House of Cards,” which chronicles a corrupt representative from South Carolina in DC played by Kevin Spacey, was fiction or more like a documentary.

“The only thing that’s not accurate in that show is that you could never get a piece of legislation about education passed that quickly,” Cawthorn said on the Warrior Poet Society podcast on YouTube.

Click on the links above for Cawthorn’s full comments. Needless to say, his colleagues were not pleased to hear about his remarks. From POLITICO:

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is planning to sit down with Rep. Madison Cawthorn and talk to the North Carolina Republican about his latest incendiary public comment — suggesting that some of his colleagues invited him to orgies as well as used cocaine in front of him.

During a closed-door House GOP conference meeting on Tuesday, multiple Republicans in the room said lawmakers stood up to air their anger and frustration over Cawthorn portraying his own colleagues as bacchanalian and sexual deviants.

In one case, Rep. Steve Womack (R-Ark.) stood up and addressed his colleagues, telling them that he rarely speaks during the closed-door weekly meetings but felt he must address the topic because he’s now getting questions about participants in Cawthorn’s alleged orgies and drug use. Womack remarked that many lawmakers go to bed at 9 p.m. and still use fax machines and flip phones, stating that it was inappropriate to paint them with a broad brush, as Cawthorn did…

…Many GOP lawmakers privately expressed disbelief at Cawthorn’s claims, particularly of orgies. [Pols emphasis] Some wondered if he made the comments consciously in a bid to portray himself above such acts — past media reports have addressed sexual misconduct allegations against him before his election. There’s a desire among fellow Republicans for Cawthorn to identify the colleagues involved to prove the truth of his comments, but that desire to name names could also cause new headaches for a conference that’s already faced an array of controversies this Congress.

We’re not sure which is funnier: The fax machine/flip phone explanation from Rep. Steve Womack, or the fact that many Republicans want “to identify the colleagues involved” in order to find out where these parties are punish those involved.

Perhaps the best comment on the situation came from this Twitter account:

I think if we learned one thing this weekend it was don’t invite Madison Cawthorn to your party.

— Schooley (@Rschooley) March 28, 2022