It’s not necessarily news this week for a House Republican to be lashing out at Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his other seven colleagues who ousted Rep. Kevin McCarthy (D-CA) as House Speaker. But to do it on official Congressional letterhead in an unbelievably sarcastic letter?

That’s precisely what Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA) did on Saturday. In a scorching official letter addressed to Gaetz and the seven others who ousted McCarthy, McClintock unleashed a flurry of zingers.

“Dear Wayward Colleague,” the sarcastic letter began. “Your letter of October 20, in which you graciously offer to martyr yourselves as long as you can get your way, is perhaps the most selfless act in American history.”

McClintock was referring to the offer Gaetz and the other McCarthy rebels (minus Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado who was erroneously included), who offered to accept personal discipline in exchange for the election of Rep. Jim Jordan as House Speaker.

“We truly don’t deserve you,” the congressman added.

Every single paragraph is loaded with mocking shots at the far-right House members who got the ball rolling on the chaos in which the GOP House caucus has been embroiled over the past few weeks.

“Your sacrifice is not in vain,” McClintock said.. “You have succeeded in replacing the outdated concept of majority rule with an exciting new standard that a Speaker must be elected by 98.2 percent of the Republican conference.Someday, a messiah will be born unto us who can achieve this miraculous threshold, and on that day your judgment will be vindicated and you will be hailed as the geniuses that you are.”

Read the full letter below, via Juilegrace Brufke of Axios:

NEW: Rep. Tom McClintock is taking aim at the members who ousted McCarthy’s recent vow that they would be willing to be disciplined and expelled from the conference in order to get Jordan the gavel, with the California Republican clapping back in a sassy new letter. pic.twitter.com/UgY8WhcOWR

— Juliegrace Brufke (@juliegraceb) October 21, 2023

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