She appears to be a dense loose cannon on her own trip that more and MORE Republicans are feed up with…
But she still has some who have her back…
Forty House Republicans on Wednesday voted against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s latest motion to adjourn, yet another sign her party is growing increasingly frustrated with the Georgia Republican’s procedural delay tactics.
That figure was more than double the 18 Republicans who voted against her motion last week to end House business for the day.
Some of those Republicans who have bucked Greene and GOP leaders have correctly predicted that the number of “no” votes will only grow as Greene continues to force more of these votes.
They’ve complained that these unexpected votes, which do not appear on the House schedule, have disrupted constituent meetings and congressional hearings and have no purpose other than gumming up the floor.
“I’m just tired of it. We’re doing this every day, and there’s no point. So I’m just done playing,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger(R-Ill.), a Greene critic, told The Hill last week.
Like the other futile Greene votes, Wednesday’s motion to adjourn failed, by a roll call of 149-235.
But most Republicans — nearly 150 on this vote — still stuck with Greene, who began deploying these procedural tactics after Democrats voted last month to strip her of her two committee assignments over offensive social media posts…
Her repeated motions to adjourn legislative debate over the past several weeks have forced members to scramble to the House floor and vote to remain in session, a move that is infuriating Democrats and, increasingly, members of her own party.
On Wednesday, she moved to adjourn as the House was preparing to debate the coronavirus relief package. The motion was defeated, with 40 Republicans joining Democrats in opposing it.
That marked the fourth time in recent weeks that Greene moved to adjourn. Each time, the number of Republicans voting against her increased, including some of the chamber’s most conservative members on Wednesday….
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Or you have this add from the Colorado Congresswoman…
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/lauren-boebert-pelosi-ad-sound-effect-101255495.html
Really a gunshot and a gun cock in the add…these Republican Jokers are a problem…
In fact Bdog?
I doubt that the gun control policy will have much change under Biden….
Me?
I have come to see the issue as one of culture….
America IS a gun country….
The fact is there are MORE guns now then there every was…
This is AFTER the numerous mass shootings….
Obama was not able to much about it and no Republican President will either…
In fact he had to get defensive about it emposizing that ‘he would NOT take away people’s gun’s’….
The sad fact is Bdog?
Republican jokers will keep their guns….
And end up buying more….
This IS America….
My rough impression that there are at least as many pro-gun Democratic Senators (e.g. Joe Manchin) as Republican ones who want to improve gun control.
Yup DSD….
It’s the culture thing…..
It’s where ur living…..
One size does NOT fit all….
I have no idea what on earth, James, that has to do with either the price of Burmese potatoes or what I was writing.
I was not writing about culture nor about one size.
Immigration tends to become an explosive issue when economic and social times are hard, difficult, uncertain, insecure or threatening. It can also be inflammatory when Americans fear some threat from foreign forces (Germany, Japan, al-Qaeda).
When times are peaceful and relatively good, immigration doesn’t completely vanish as a question, but it fades into the background and is far less incendiary.
Far few people can be persuaded that immigrants are stealing from them or depriving them of something — and that more immigration would make things far worse.
Sorry, James, my mistake; yes a large part of it is a culture issue.
Immigration is a broad issue and I believe the overwhelming majority of Americans are supportive of the concept.
However there is a reality going on at the southern border now, even as we are still not finished with a pandemic. There are increasing and very large amounts of people crossing the border and seeking asylum, especially children who have crossed without parents. This is happening in large part because Joe Biden won and Donald Trump did not and Biden promised a vastly different approach to this matter.
With political victory comes the burden of governing and this is a very serious policy and political issue now for Biden and Democrats.
And he WILL do the best he can…
But as DSD points out….
He is one of many who have had to oversee the issue….
And his aims in my mind are miles above Trump and his knucklehead assistant Stephen Miller…
Unfortunately, there’s almost no hope of any kind of compromise on immigration so long as Donald Trump sees it to his personal or philosophical advantage to keep it a controversy; so long as he does millions will follow and Republican politicians will have little choice but to follow those millions.
Trump succeeded spectacularly where Pat Buchanan had failed, probably because this thorny question was not quite so salient 20 years ago.
And he’s back at the issue again as is other Republican’s…