# 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:** 86
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1705 "2024-05-10T14:20:31Z")
Oh my god, that article is a masterwork…So many good burns. > Greene’s Herculean displays of vacuousness always had an endpoint, even in a political party as uniquely absurd and useless as one helmed by Trump. > > [In 2021](https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/G000596), she slid, hand-in-glove, into a Republican Party that has an appetite for stupidity. But like a dull-witted Icarus, she has now flown too close to the dumb. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1706 "2024-05-10T14:21:09Z")
The thing I see with this last, known doomed, stunt is that she just _could not back down_ and say “I have been advised by Prez Trump and other allies that this is not the right priority at the right time ”. Because she **wants** to be seen “fighting”, as the toughest one, and she sees that her Big Leader has all his life been someone who **does not** cut his losses and stop digging but rather continues to double down until either he prevails by attrition or everyone just gets tired of it and has stopped paying attention by the time he settles, and that his followers _admire him for that_. She feels, or knows, that she’d lose face with him and with her voters’ sociopolitical culture as someone who admits weakness, if she backed off. MTG has been denounced as someone unserious about her role in Congress by everyone from Mike Johnson to Dusty Johnson to Dan Crenshaw — that is, every wing of the conference sees her as distracting from getting things done. OTOH she is also a useful distraction from what they **do**. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1707 "2024-05-10T14:25:18Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Oh my god, that article is a masterwork…So many good burns. I was tempted to post more quotes, but there was so much snark that I’d have violated the ‘fair use’ copyright rules. ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1708 "2024-05-10T14:26:05Z")
I don’t really agree that this signals the end of her “power,” because she’s never had any power. She gets lots of _attention_, and people mistake that for power, but I can’t think of a single procedural or policy matter that was swayed due to her influence. And this certainly isn’t the end for her politically, at least not immediately. She’s going to win her gerrymandered district this fall. Hopefully she gets “Cawthorned” in her next primary, but that’s a long way away. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1709 "2024-05-10T14:44:39Z")
Would anyone but that guy that was next to her during the voting object at all if she was summarily removed from her committee assignments? She really is just a waste of time (and oxygen), ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1710 "2024-05-10T15:03:07Z")
I just love how they booed the crap out of her when she was up there. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1711 "2024-05-10T15:19:26Z")
“Smithers, are they booing me?” “No ma’am, they’re saying Marjoooooooorie Taylor Greene…” ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1712 "2024-05-10T15:22:08Z")
From the article, > [@](#): > > Greene’s approach to politics – loud, wrong and, if that doesn’t work, louder and wronger – had somehow managed to turn her into a Republican of influence. It was, in the most literal sense imaginable, dumb luck. I think this perfectly describes her as a congressperson. ETA - I’m glad Rex has a paying job. I was sad when the Chicago Tribune decided they didn’t need columnists with actual experience and enticed them all to quit before they were fired. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1713 "2024-05-10T15:25:19Z")
> [@SunUp](#): > > “No ma’am, they’re saying Marjoooooooorie Taylor Greene…” Rep. Moleman, chair of the House Head-in-the-Ground Caucus: “I was saying Marjoooooooorie.” ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1714 "2024-05-10T15:46:19Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > She gets lots of _attention_, And her ability to get a lot of attention is how she succeeded in her original primary. The voters in 2020 who were motivated to show up for the primary and its runoff decided they wanted a Trumply exciting anti-establishment candidate about whom all media kept reporting how terrible she was, over a regular RW conservative. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1715 "2024-05-10T15:52:53Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > I’m glad Rex has a paying job. I was sad when the Chicago Tribune decided they didn’t need columnists with actual experience and enticed them all to quit before they were fired. I actually chatted with Rex Huppke once and he’s just as cool in person as he is in print. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1716 "2024-05-10T15:52:59Z")
I wish she would tell us more about the Uniparty. They sound like a bunch who could get things done. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1717 "2024-05-10T20:13:31Z")
Someone should point out to her that she voted with 32 Democrats to remove Speaker Johnson. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1718 "2024-05-10T20:19:44Z")
oh good heavens, that would just cause a brain cell explosion. ---
**Author:** ![icon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c6cbf5/32.png) [@icon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/icon)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1719 "2024-05-10T21:31:27Z")
Just leaving this quote by Mike Lawler a republican from N.Y. after the vote that failed: > Moscow Marjorie has clearly gone off the deep end, maybe the result of a space laser `//i\\` ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1720 "2024-05-10T21:35:01Z")
As someone said, it’s quite a miss by her to call it the Jewish space laser and not the Death Star of David. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2024, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1721 "2024-05-10T21:55:28Z")
> [@rocking\_chair](#): > > that would just cause a brain cell explosion so a dud… ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1722 "2024-05-13T12:17:20Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > and not the Death Star of David. Take your upvote and leave! ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1723 "2024-05-13T12:37:52Z")
> [@abcdefghij](#): > > > [@rocking\_chair](#): > > > > that would just cause a brain cell explosion > > so a dud… Well, it was a (the?) singular brain cell, so it might have actually exploded and was simply not noticed. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895/1724 "2024-05-13T18:47:24Z")
> [@Horatius](#): > > Take your upvote and leave! It’s worth saying that @Hari_Seldon’s wife was credited with that 3 years ago back in post #66 in this thread. Hence why Velocity started with, “As someone said”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=85) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/congresswoman-marjorie-taylor-greene-must-go/931895.md?page=87)