Sure, the Republican National Party recently endorsed the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection attack as “legitimate,” but for Republican leaders on the Hill, everything’s business as usual.

Asked on Monday about the RNC calling the Jan. 6 assault “legitimate political discourse,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said he would get around to commenting later.

“I expect I’ll get that question” tomorrow, McConnell offered, telling NBC’s Garrett Haake he would see him at Tuesday’s weekly press conference.

On Tuesday, McConnell finally saw fit to take issue with the national Republican Party for embracing the Jan. 6 seditionists.

“It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election,” McConnell told reporters at the press conference.

As for the RNC singling out Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for censure, McConnell said, “That’s not the job of the RNC.” Traditionally, he added, the national party committees support all members of the party “regardless of their position on some issues.”

This latest internal row is entirely off-script for McConnell, who has pretended everything with the Republican Party is all rainbows and unicorns—as if the ghost of Donald Trump wasn’t haunting them at every turn.

But Republicans do agree on one thing—they want control of Congress, which apparently doesn’t require most of them to take a stand for democracy by condemning the RNC resolution. In multiple interviews over the last several days, Republicans generally fell into several camps—those who assailed the RNC resolution as politically stupid, those who dodged questions about it by saying Republicans should be solely focused on taking back congressional majorities, and a precious few of them who condemned the resolution outright.

“As Americans, we must acknowledge those tragic events, and we cannot allow a false narrative to be created,” tweeted Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. “We cannot deny the truth—to suggest it was ‘legitimate political discourse’ is just wrong.”

But proudly representing the spinelessness wing of the GOP, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took a trip to la-la land when asked about the RNC resolution.

“What they were talking about is the six RNC members who Jan 6th has subpoenaed, who weren’t even here, who were in Florida that day,” McCarthy said, spouting nonsense he appears to have made up out of whole cloth.

“Anybody who broke in and caused damage,” he added, “should be in jail.”

But condemning the RNC—that was a bridge too far for McCarthy.