The Georgia Republican Party IS trying to lick its wounds after the Presidential election and the rerun of the two US Senate elections with Donald Trump on their case ‘hard’…..
Now they have to deal with a new House members that has ‘ extremist beliefs and promotion of bizarre conspiracy theories ‘….
Greene is still supported in her House district….
But she has become the poster woman for things Republicans do NOT want the public to keep seeing them as after the November elections…
The calls for censure and her removal from Congress don’t appear to have damaged her standing in her conservative north Georgia district — and may have even strengthened the so-called QAnon Congresswoman there for now. She tweeted Friday that she raised $1.6 million off all the controversy and on Saturday told her 300,000 followers she just had a chat with a supportive Donald Trump — the former president who has referred to her as a “future Republican star.”
This is what a nightmare scenario looks like.
With the party reeling in the wake of its 2020 unraveling — when it lost too many centrist voters — state Republicans now worry Greene will emerge as the face of the GOP, tainting the entire ticket with a stamp of conspiracy theory and extremism in the run-up to the 2022 midterms.
“If you have any common sense, you know she’s an anchor on the party. She is weighing us down,” said Gabriel Sterling, a Republican election administrator who became a leading voice criticizing the baseless election conspiracy theories espoused by Trump and his supporters like Greene.
“Some people are saying maybe [House Speaker] Nancy Pelosi will throw her out” of Congress, Sterling said, referring to the House speaker. “The Democrats would never throw her out. They want her to be the definition of what a Republican is. They’re gonna give her every opportunity to speak and be heard and look crazy — like what came out Wednesday, the Jewish space laser to start fires. I mean, I don’t know how far down the rabbit hole you go.”
Judging from old social media posts and videos that surfaced last week, that hole is fairly deep. Greene has promoted the conspiracy theory that space lasers caused California wildfires, that school shootings were hoaxes and suggested that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason….
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Hmmm?
McConnell Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘Cancer’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party,” The Hill reports.
Sid McConnell: “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality.”
He added: “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”
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McConnell Calls Marjorie Taylor Greene a ‘Cancer’
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) embrace of “loony lies and conspiracy theories” as a “cancer for the Republican Party,” The Hill reports.
Sid McConnell: “Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality.”
He added: “This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party.”
Don’t seem like a EVERYBODY is rowing together to me…..
Will the House Democrats do what the Republicans don’t have the ball to do?
Scott Dworkin
@funder
BREAKING: The House Rules Cmte will meet Wednesday to consider a bill to take away Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Committee assignments. It would only need a majority of the House to pass.
Question?
Can the Democrats do the same for Sen Hawley (Missouri-R) who sits on 5 US Senate committee’s including Judiciary and Armed Services?