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From OCCUPY DEMOCRATS:
Republican civil war erupts as party bans Dan Crenshaw from international travel after drunken diplomatic FIASCO...
The Republican Party is eating itself alive — again — this time in an embarrassing scandal involving booze, infighting, and a member of Congress toasting a crude, misogynistic joke to foreign officials on an official visit abroad. Yes, the “party of family values” is now reduced to grounding one of its own lawmakers like an out-of-control frat boy.
According to a bombshell Punchbowl News report based on new revelations, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has been banned from international travel for 90 days after an “alcohol-related episode” during an official delegation trip to Mexico this summer. And the details are exactly as humiliating as you’d imagine.
Crenshaw was reportedly drinking with Mexican officials when one of them told a “crude joke” that made a woman in the group uncomfortable. Instead of addressing the inappropriate remark or defending his colleague, Crenshaw toasted it. That’s right — he raised a glass to misogyny while representing the United States.
Republican diplomacy, ladies and gentlemen.
When Crenshaw returned to Washington, the fallout was immediate. He was hauled in for a tense meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson and House Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford — a meeting that sources say “grew heated” fast. It got so bad that Crawford wanted Crenshaw kicked off the Intelligence Committee entirely. That’s how seriously GOP leadership viewed his behavior.
And while Johnson stopped short of booting him from the committee, he did slap Crenshaw with a three-month ban on international travel — the political equivalent of being put in time-out — and disbanded Crenshaw’s much-hyped “cartel task force.”
Let’s be clear: this wasn’t just about drinking in the wrong place at the wrong time. This was about a Republican congressman embarrassing the United States in front of foreign officials, mocking the dignity of a woman present, and igniting a vicious GOP power struggle in the process.
Because behind Crenshaw’s public humiliation lies another layer of Republican dysfunction: he and Crawford have been feuding over intelligence appropriations, with Crawford pushing for increased counterintelligence funding and growing “frustrated” at Crenshaw’s refusal to back the plan. Those funds were ultimately included in the final bill — a not-so-subtle reminder that Crenshaw is losing clout fast.
So now the Republican Party has:
• A lawmaker banned from leaving the country,
• A committee chair trying to knock him off Intel entirely,
• A Speaker forced to babysit rowdy members like a substitute teacher during recess, and
• Yet another public display of misogyny, incompetence, and infighting on the world stage.
This is the party that wants to lecture America on “strength,” “morality,” and “leadership,” but they can’t even trust their own members to behave on a work trip.
Republicans keep proving over and over:
They’re not a governing party.
They’re not a serious party.
They’re not even a functional party.
They’re a slow-motion car crash — and every day brings another explosion.
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