Jasmine Crockett wants to prove that Democrats aren’t weak: ‘Everyone’s so freakin’ polite’

It’s hard not to notice when it’s Representative Jasmine Crockett’s turn to ask questions during hearings for the House Oversight Committee.

Her accent — a blend of her native St Louis and her adopted home of Dallas, which she represents in the House — is distinct and the freshman Democrat relishes in using it to slice up Republicans. She has a way of cutting through political rhetoric and getting to the painful core of an issue — particularly when it concerns Republicans’ ill-fated attempts to impeach President Joe Biden.

During the first impeachment hearing in September, Crockett held up images of former president Donald Trump seemingly hiding classified documents in his bathroom and said, “There are our national secrets — looks like in the s***er to me.”

Last month, during a markup of a resolution to hold Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia mocked Crockett’s “fake eyelashes.” In response, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York asked for Greene’s words to be stricken from the record, considering they violate a rule about making personal attacks in the House. Crockett then asked Republican Chairman James Comer, in a moment that subsequently went viral, “If someone on this committee then starts talking about somebody’s bleach-blonde, bad-built butch body, that would not be engaging in personalities, correct?”

The moment made the rounds online before the hearing had even ended. In fact, it was Crockett’s pastor who told her — mid-hearing — that she was going viral.

Crockett told The Independent in an interview this week that she came up with the insult “impromptu-ish” after she realized Comer would not punish Greene.

“Once I realized Comer was going