Liberal New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand sat down for a friendly interview with Daily Show host Jon Stewart on Wednesday night and the two eagerly took turns bashing Republican members of Congress for being “cynical” for disagreeing with liberal policy positions.

After Stewart and Gillibrand complained that, other than Papua New Guinea, America is the only industrialized country that doesn’t have mandated paid leave, Stewart wondered [i]s our government just too big to manage now? Is that the problem? Is it just everything just slips under the thing? I don't understand. What is the issue?"

Gillibrand insisted that the problem is Congress, which lives in a “bubble” and doesn’t “have a lot of empathy for regular working families." This gave Stewart the perfect opportunity to smear GOP members of Congress for not caring enough:

But is it like, at a certain point you just think are they like rapacious social Darwinian caricatures of villains. Like, I almost think, are they Dickensian Scrooges? I don't mind people being responsible with taxpayer money, that's important, to manage efficiencies. But this idea of like food stamps, you know, then everybody is just going to go out and buy shrimp and sit around and drink Mai Tai’s.

Gillibrand then accused the GOP of lacking “empathy” to which Stewart asked if it was “pathological though? Do you think they have mental problems?” While Gillibrand didn’t go quite as far as the Comedy Central host in her criticism of Republicans, the New York Democrat had no trouble labeling them as “out of touch. I think most members are out of touch and they do not know what it is like for regular working Americans.”

The GOP bashing continued as Stewart labeled Republicans as “cynical” who are “manipulating a grievance industry amongst voters that and play into that as the voters as victims of this entitlement culture or do they truly believe it, or is it a more cynical exercise in politics?”

The segment concluded with the two liberals agreeing that it’s “outrageous” Republicans don’t want to expand programs like food stamps which prompted Stewart to ask Gillibrand “[d]o you ever punch anybody? Like you’re just in their office and be just be like oh, I'm so sorry. I have to deck you.”

See relevant transcript below.