# Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene MUST GO **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 31, 2021, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895 "2021-01-31T00:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/21 "2021-01-31T15:17:39Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > > [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > > > I still say it’s a good thing for the Democratic Party that the crazy one that people focus on is on the other side. > > That’s a different proposition. If there has to be a crazy representative in Congress, better to have her on the other side – maybe. I mean, only because if she were a Democrat, I think she’d be dealt with, but sure, if she’s not going to get dealt with, better them than us. It’s not just it’s better them than us; it’s also that the Republicans in Congress should be the ones acting, not the Democrats. Let her remain as a reminder that the Republicans have devolved even from two years ago, when they stripped [Steve King](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html) of committee assignments for wondering why white supremacy is a bad thing (“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”). So now two years later, they’re awarding Marjorie Taylor Greene by putting her on the education committee. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/22 "2021-01-31T15:39:30Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > Not really, though - [she ran unopposed due to the Democratic candidate dropping out two months before the election.](https://www.11alive.com/article/news/politics/elections/marjorie-taylor-greene-the-only-candidate-in-georgias-14th-congressional-district-race/85-a7efab2c-ccfa-402b-944e-c1d32f0bbdcd) But she defeated a pretty normal guy in the Republican primary. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/23 "2021-01-31T18:14:45Z")
I just read about Greene’s Jewish Space Laser revelation. > **[GOP Congresswoman Blamed Wildfires on Secret Jewish Space Laser](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-greene-qanon-wildfires-space-laser-rothschild-execute.html?fbclid=IwAR035QrgDi0YoJsKfGCHwe8cOHEL9Ll1BfuJikX2HGQQ4PBoIpGf1sy03vY)** > > Marjorie Taylor Greene is even nuttier than previously believed. This is a new dimension in looniness.\* As for Rep. McCarthy having a “talk” with Greene, this is a guy who’s still canoodling with Trump, so don’t expect much. A censure vote should be a no-brainer. \*the problem with the linked article is it equates Greene with AOC on the Democratic side. While I find AOC’s views to generally be annoyingly dumb and destructive to a rational party agenda, she isn’t _insane_. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/24 "2021-01-31T18:21:09Z")
At this point I am completely happy to define Marjorie Taylor Greene as the public face of the Republican Party, and to shout to the rafters that every single thing she says or believes or tweets (now or in the future) is fully representative of the Republican Platform. Yes, I know she’s only a junior, recently elected member of the house, however the Republicans and Fox News have taught me that this is absolutely the appropriate response to have. See for example, how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been reported on since her election. ETA: I only equate them in how the media did treat AOC and how they should treat MTG. I agree that AOC is not even in the same league, mental health wise. ---
**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/25 "2021-01-31T18:22:20Z")
She was legally elected and has broken no laws. She’s a nut case but her nuttiness has been confined to what she says, and she has not actually done anything. Yet. The problem is that the Republican party isn’t mortified. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/26 "2021-01-31T18:31:34Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > At this point I am completely happy to define Marjorie Taylor Greene as the public face of the Republican Party, and to shout to the rafters that every single thing she says or believes or tweets (now or in the future) is fully representative of the Republican Platform. Except the other public faces of the Republican Party should not get away with using her to shift the Overton window to “normalize” their own shitty and irresponsible behavior. Many of the more mainstream Republicans, to the extent that there are any of those left, seem to be still convinced that they can ride the Trumpublican tiger. They’ll let Trumpian extremists like MTG serve as the lightning rod for popular outrage, while not openly contradicting her or criticizing her so they won’t get RINOfied by her passionate Trumpist base. At the same time, they’ll try to present their own behavior as “normal” or “legitimate” compared with her extremist nuttiness. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/27 "2021-01-31T18:36:13Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > The voters who elected her are certainly a huge part of the problem, but it is also a huge problem for Congressional Republicans to accept her, and not to be completely on board with kicking such a person out of the actual legislative body of the freaking country. The fact the Republicans in Congress didn’t in effect tell her, “There, there. Go sit in the corner and play with your Crayons,” by declining to assign her any committees shows to me that they have embraced that brand of insanity if not encouraged it. I have no pity for them. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/28 "2021-01-31T18:40:31Z")
> [@CookingWithGas](#): > > She’s a nut case but her nuttiness has been confined to what she says, and she has not actually done anything. Except what I already linked shows she has already acted. She’s actively engaging in harassment and threatening colleagues. That’s the whole reason they’re pushing the expulsion. I don’t think they should have to wait until she actually acts on her threats and hurts people. ---
**Author:** ![Chingon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chingon/32/17645_2.png) [@Chingon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chingon)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/29 "2021-01-31T18:42:11Z")
She’s doing what her constituents voted her in to do. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/30 "2021-01-31T18:43:22Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > Perhaps the Democrats are better off with a crazy Congressperson on the other side of the aisle? You mean like [this one](https://waters.house.gov/)? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/31 "2021-01-31T18:50:22Z")
Your link is to the legislative webpage for Congresswoman Maxine Waters, implying some equivalency. So, please be specific and in your own words; how is Maxine Waters like Marjorie Taylor Greene? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/32 "2021-01-31T18:50:36Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > \*the problem with the linked article is it equates Greene with AOC on the Democratic side. “Equates” isn’t the word that I’d use. As I read it, the point of the article that the Democrats’ “leading mischief-maker” is someone who “advocates some left-wing views I consider simplistic and impractical and, in some cases, poll badly”; while the Republicans’ is a total batshit loony. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/33 "2021-01-31T18:51:59Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The _very first_ joke on Saturday Night Live tonight was about her and about how crazy it is that she was promoted (i.e., given a seat on the Education Committee) after displaying how crazy she is. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/9LqK8GiIMYw/maxresdefault.jpg "What Still Works Cold Open - SNL") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LqK8GiIMYw) ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/34 "2021-01-31T19:19:15Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > It’s not just it’s better them than us; it’s also that the Republicans in Congress should be the ones acting, not the Democrats. Let her remain as a reminder that the Republicans have devolved even from two years ago, when they stripped [Steve King](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/us/politics/steve-king-white-supremacy.html) of committee assignments for wondering why white supremacy is a bad thing (“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?”). So now two years later, they’re awarding Marjorie Taylor Greene by putting her on the education committee. In terms of partisanship, better them than us. In terms of the good of the country, it would be better if she were a Democrat so she would be dealt with appropriately by people who reject using racist, conspiracy theorist, mentally-ill-adjacent people, as a political faction with a voice inside the party. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/35 "2021-01-31T19:46:09Z")
The allegation in the link is that Greene confronted Bush in a hallway and was “loud and unmasked,” and Greene disputes her account. I really don’t want to be in the position of trying to defend this nutjob, but I don’t think the conduct confirmed so far warrants her immediate expulsion. Censure and strip her of committee assignments? Absolutely. But as has been noted, the only instances of a member being expelled were due to treason or taking bribes for official acts. Of course if additional conduct is confirmed (such as the allegation that she led tours of Capitol insurrectionists to case the place) it could warrant her expulsion. But expelling her now would just make her even more of a QAnon folk hero than she already is. Stick her in an office in the basement of the Longworth Building, kick her off committees, and deny her floor time. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/36 "2021-01-31T19:56:10Z")
It’s interesting how the GOP’s conservative base tried to brand itself as the party of Israel. In time, I suspect that the pro-Israel right is going to come face-to-face with anti-Jewish right wing populism, which is what Greene seems to represent. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/37 "2021-01-31T19:56:53Z")
I’m afraid that in the 2028 Republican presidential nomination race, our Marjorie is going to be a middle of the road candidate; There will be plenty of R’s who will ramp it up to out-crazy her. There is no bottom limit to where we’re going. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/38 "2021-01-31T20:00:08Z")
Indeed, she’s not the only bat-shit member of congress; she’s one a few, and the number is growing ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/39 "2021-01-31T20:49:42Z")
> [@Chingon](#): > > She’s doing what her constituents voted her in to do. She is, indeed. Doesn’t mean the rest of us have to pay attention to her. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/41 "2021-01-31T20:59:10Z")
> [@Euphonious\_Polemic](#): > > Yes, I know she’s only a junior, recently elected member of the house, however the Republicans and Fox News have taught me that this is absolutely the appropriate response to have. See for example, how Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been reported on since her election. I kinda like being able to point to MTG as a counterpoint to the endless blather about “AOC is a big silly dumb-stoopy”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=3)