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, 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.
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.
I was tempted to post more quotes, but there was so much snark that I’d have violated the ‘fair use’ copyright rules.
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.
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),
I just love how they booed the crap out of her when she was up there.
“Smithers, are they booing me?”
“No ma’am, they’re saying Marjoooooooorie Taylor Greene…”
From the article,
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.
Rep. Moleman, chair of the House Head-in-the-Ground Caucus: “I was saying Marjoooooooorie.”
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.
I actually chatted with Rex Huppke once and he’s just as cool in person as he is in print.
I wish she would tell us more about the Uniparty. They sound like a bunch who could get things done.
Someone should point out to her that she voted with 32 Democrats to remove Speaker Johnson.
oh good heavens, that would just cause a brain cell explosion.
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\\
As someone said, it’s quite a miss by her to call it the Jewish space laser and not the Death Star of David.
so a dud…
Take your upvote and leave!
Well, it was a (the?) singular brain cell, so it might have actually exploded and was simply not noticed.
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”.