Performance jackassery is an art form in the modern GOP with its most visible and frequent practitioners in the House GOP caucus. Competition for who can be the most ridiculous is often fierce, but no one would deny Georgia Congress Critter Marjorie Taylor Greene is on everyone’s short list for the title of Most Crazy, Useless Member of Congress. Sometimes her desire to grab some spotlight leads her to accidentally tell the truth on herself and her fellow crazies, as this piece from The New Republic shows.
It’s not that long a read so I encourage you to take a couple of minutes. For those who want the cliff notes, MTG concedes that Republicans are more focused on TV stuff and social media than actually you know, working for the people! Oops. It seems she got a bit carried away in an interview with CNN’s Manu Raju yesterday and he tweeted:
MTG: “Republican voters across the country are sick and tired of Republicans because they never do anything to hold this government accountable,” she told me. Says Americans think Rs “in Congress completely fail them, I feel the same way. And I’m a Republican member of Congress.”
I mentioned poor old irony in the title because as you know the Continuing Resolution to keep the government open was only for 45 days. Greene and her pals (Gang-Greene?) couldn’t get their collective crap together and select a new Speaker for weeks. Weeks that shouldn’t have been wasted. Through it all that deadline has been looming and even hard core MAGAs in the House realize that a shutdown right before the holidays will come back to bite them a year from now.
Yet when we look at MTG what has she spent the past several weeks furiously working on? Censuring Democratic Representative Rashida Talib! It seems Margerine didn’t like what Talib had to say at a peaceful, Jewish led rally that called for a cease fire in Gaza. Well, okay. People can disagree. But the censure motion was pretty “out there” to put it politely. So much so that about two dozen of her fellow Republicans voted to table it. Some of the comments were less than kind:
Representative Chip Roy snubbed the disciplinary measure as a “feckless” resolution that included “legally and factually unverified claims, including the claim of leading an ‘insurrection.’” When 23 Republicans voted to table the bid, Greene went full meltdown on the caucus, attacking former allies who voted to table it.
Well, she did her crazy a$$ed political performance art for the MAGA masses and no doubt hauled in some serious donations which was the real point if you ask me. Having done so you’d think she’d turn her attention to joining her colleagues who it seems are trying to punt into the new year with another CR. They will of course want to extract some kind of price for avoiding a holiday calamity across the land and like I said that’s what you’d think she’d be focused on. However, to imitate a John Belushi running gag from the original SNL “But Noooooooo! Greene has come up with a new censure resolution.
Despite all the budget stuff Green has forced the issue and wasted more of the House’s time. First with debate, and tomorrow she will get her vote.
So much for doing the people’s work. But that’s MTG. That picture of her at the SOTU in that white fur hooded coat braying like a jackass is who she is. And is being right now. All while criticizing her fellow Republicans for not tending to the people’s business. Why can’t GOPers let Irony which they so cruelly killed rest in peace?
Well then why don’t you start exodus of performers there Kooky Pants and resign your seat in congress.