The Marjorie Taylor Greene thread.

[newyorkguy]

In Congress Greene is emerging as a tactician bent on interrupting and delaying routine business as a way of harassing her Democratic colleagues. Greene offers motions to require roll call votes on routine matters as a way of slowing things down. Greene denies this, saying Americans deserve to know exactly how their representative is voting. At the same time Greene regularly introduces motions to adjourn, a tactic that has yet to work but delays proceedings by forty five minutes because of the requirement it be put to a voice vote. This is what Greene tweeted a hour ago

Incompetent House Democrats couldn’t even tell us this morning what time we have to vote today on their #AmericaLast policies. I bet all you working tax paying folks know what time you are showing up to work and getting the job done. Twitter link

CNN reports that while some Republicans defend Greene some Republican members of Congress find her behavior frustrating.

However, the suspension bills before Congress on Monday had nothing to do with the topics Greene claims she was focused on. Instead, they addressed issues like child abuse treatment and prevention, literacy and credit management. Three of the bills were even sponsored by Greene's fellow Republicans. According to one aide to a senior Republican official, rank-and-file GOP members are starting to grow frustrated with Greene's fruitless delay tactics. "Her act is starting to wear thin," said the aide. CNN report

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

In Congress Greene is emerging as a tactician bent on interrupting and delaying routine business as a way of harassing her Democratic colleagues. Greene offers motions to require roll call votes on routine matters as a way of slowing things down. Greene denies this, saying Americans deserve to know exactly how their representative is voting. At the same time Greene regularly introduces motions to adjourn, a tactic that has yet to work but delays proceedings by forty five minutes because of the requirement it be put to a voice vote. This is what Greene tweeted a hour ago

CNN reports that while some Republicans defend Greene some Republican members of Congress find her behavior frustrating.

Dunning-Kruger of Congressional function?

 

[The Don]

CNN reports that while some Republicans defend Greene some Republican members of Congress find her behavior frustrating.

Maybe, but even if they do find her behaviour frustrating they won't do anything to attempt to change it because she, and her views, represent the modern day GOP.

 

[newyorkguy]

Greene tweeted this last night-

Marjorie Taylor Greene
Proud to fight for our #2A rights in Congress alongside
@Rep_Clyde & @RepTedBudd, two members of
Congress who sell firearms for a living.
They know that government gun controls are an
infringement on our God-given right to keep and bear arms. Tweet link

Now it's a God-given right?

 

[smartcooky]

Greene tweeted this last night-


Now it's a God-given right?

Yup, the Founding Fathers are now Gods didn'tchaknow?

 

[newyorkguy]

Someone with the kind of mentality Marjorie Greene has, if you asked her-

• How is the right to keep and bear arms 'God-given?'

Her answer would probably be-

• Don't you believe in God?

And her supporters would cheer.

 

[wareyin]

In Congress Greene is emerging as a tactician bent on interrupting and delaying routine business as a way of harassing her Democratic colleagues. Greene offers motions to require roll call votes on routine matters as a way of slowing things down. Greene denies this, saying Americans deserve to know exactly how their representative is voting. At the same time Greene regularly introduces motions to adjourn, a tactic that has yet to work but delays proceedings by forty five minutes because of the requirement it be put to a voice vote. This is what Greene tweeted a hour ago



CNN reports that while some Republicans defend Greene some Republican members of Congress find her behavior frustrating.

It's nice to hear that even some of her Republican co-workers are frustrated by her, but unnamed Republican Congresscritters were also always frustrated with Trump off the record but behind him 100% when their name was attached to it. I'd much rather hear which Republicans are frustrated, or far better yet hear what they are doing to rein her in.

 

[slyjoe]

Someone with the kind of mentality Marjorie Greene has, if you asked her-

• How is the right to keep and bear arms 'God-given?'

Her answer would probably be-

• Don't you believe in God?

And her supporters would cheer.

And that's why these republicans love to "communicate" through Twitter. There is no one to ask the obvious questions that could point out the ridiculousness of her stance.

I would also ask her "And what exactly have you done to assure 2A rights?"

 

[newyorkguy]

What has Marjorie Greene done to defend second amendment rights? She'd have an answer for that one. Below is a quote from her congressional website:

Feb. 21, 2021 - Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA-14) kept her campaign pledge to defend gun rights by introducing the Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) to defund all federal gun control enforcement and end funding for regulation and guidance issued by the ATF. The Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) will:

• Cut all federal funding from implementing, enforcing, or advancing any measure, law, regulation, or guidance relating to the lawful use, purchase, sale, possession, or transportation of firearms by any citizen of the United States for Fiscal Year 2021.
• Prohibit any federal funds from enforcing or implementing regulations or guidance issued by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms promulgated after November 1, 2020.

Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene issued the following statement:
“Throughout my campaign for Congress, I promised the people of Northwest Georgia that I would be the strongest defender of gun rights on Capitol Hill. The Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA) prevents the federal government from using our taxpayer dollars to enforce gun control on law-abiding Americans. Our God-given right to protect our country, ourselves and our families shouldn't be up for debate. I’m proud to introduce this legislation, endorsed by the American Firearms Association, that will defund the enforcement of tyrannical gun control laws.” Link to Greene House dot gov

 

[slyjoe]

Introducing bills isn't the same as getting them passed.

 

[gregthehammer]

So, anarchy then?

 

[newyorkguy]

Marj was busy today. USA Today reports:

Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the House to delay debating and voting on President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus bill on Wednesday by using a delay tactic she's used many times. Before the chamber started proceedings, she made a motion to adjourn, a procedural move that makes every lawmaker come to the floor and vote for or against keeping Congress in session that day. Her attempt failed when 40 Republicans joined all Democrats in voting against her effort, which delayed the House's business for roughly one hour. The House ultimately debated, and passed, the stimulus bill, which Greene opposed. USA Today link

It has been reported that the number of Republicans voting against her motions to adjourn has increased each time she has introduced one. Today forty Republicans voted against an adjournment but many support her. Of the Republicans who voted against adjournment to day, Greene tweeted:

"By voting against my motion to adjourn, some of my Republican colleagues are siding with the Democrats and enabling their policies that will destroy America," Greene said in a statement. "These Republican votes are the 40 white flags of the Surrender Caucus." Link to Newsweek story

How does one do business with a person like Marjorie Taylor Greene? Is she supposed to be on medication, by any chance?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Introducing bills isn't the same as getting them passed.

In Dunning-Krueger thinking it is.

Just like the ignorant belief that wasting the House's time with frivolous procedural moves is. Either that or she thinks she's getting even.

 

[smartcooky]

In Dunning-Krueger thinking it is.

Just like the ignorant belief that wasting the House's time with frivolous procedural moves is. Either that or she thinks she's getting even.

I think most Republicans in the House regard her as something of a joke, and I think she is too stupid and self-obsessed to realise that.

I also believe she thinks that her antics will delay and ultimately prevent some legislation from being passed by running out the clock. What she is too dumb to realise is that Speaker Pelosi and House Majority leader Hoyer control the clock - they will simply extend the length of time that the House is in session to get the work done.

Finally, I believe she thinks she's "trolling the Libz", but again she is too stupid to realise that the Dems will be finding it highly entertaining watching her regularly making an utter fool of herself, while watching their Republican colleagues become more and more frustrated with her antics. And that's not even mentioning the fact that the proportion of old grey-haired men is far greater on the R side of the house than the D side. Old grey men tire more easily, and become grumpy more often (I should know)

Yep, there is little doubt in my mind that the good people of Georgia's 14th congressional district have given the Dems the greatest gift they could give by electing her as their representative - a loose cannon in the midst of the House Republicans - she really is the gift that keeps giving.

 

[Stacyhs]

MTG is indicative of just how far the GOP has fallen not only in terms of her actually being elected and proving the 'quality' of the Trump base, but in confirming just how firm a grip Trump still has on the shriveled up cajones of the GOP Congress.

 

[Norman Alexander]

I think most Republicans in the House regard her as something of a joke, and I think she is too stupid and self-obsessed to realise that.

I also believe she thinks that her antics will delay and ultimately prevent some legislation from being passed by running out the clock. What she is too dumb to realise is that Speaker Pelosi and House Majority leader Hoyer control the clock - they will simply extend the length of time that the House is in session to get the work done.

Finally, I believe she thinks she's "trolling the Libz", but again she is too stupid to realise that the Dems will be finding it highly entertaining watching her regularly making an utter fool of herself, while watching their Republican colleagues become more and more frustrated with her antics. And that's not even mentioning the fact that the proportion of old grey-haired men is far greater on the R side of the house than the D side. Old grey men tire more easily, and become grumpy more often (I should know)

Yep, there is little doubt in my mind that the good people of Georgia's 14th congressional district have given the Dems the greatest gift they could give by electing her as their representative - a loose cannon in the midst of the House Republicans - she really is the gift that keeps giving.

I was telling someone today that the Dems will have worked out MTG's hot-buttons already. And they will simply push them whenever they want the Republicans to look stupid in public, which is most of the time. The Dems can afford a little time-wasting on this. Because her stupidities publicly paint the whole GOP with the same brush of mean-spirited, uneducated, incompetent vigilantism that she purveys. She also distracts attention from any Dem shortcomings and issues. I suspect this is why her fellow GOPers voted against her - to prevent her making a fool of them.

 

[The Don]

I was telling someone today that the Dems will have worked out MTG's hot-buttons already. And they will simply push them whenever they want the Republicans to look stupid in public, which is most of the time. The Dems can afford a little time-wasting on this. Because her stupidities publicly paint the whole GOP with the same brush of mean-spirited, uneducated, incompetent vigilantism that she purveys. She also distracts attention from any Dem shortcomings and issues. I suspect this is why her fellow GOPers voted against her - to prevent her making a fool of them.

You assume that would be a bad thing from an electoral point of view.

I think that GOP tactics and policies for the last couple of decades has shown that they're perfectly happy to be mean-spirited, come across as uneducated and positively thrive on vigilantism.

 

[Norman Alexander]

You assume that would be a bad thing from an electoral point of view.

I think that GOP tactics and policies for the last couple of decades has shown that they're perfectly happy to be mean-spirited, come across as uneducated and positively thrive on vigilantism.

Only in NE Georgia, where she crawled out from. The majority of the GOP are your actual elites, and know how to play the system...provided some dumb hick isn't stepping in dog-turds and trampling them on the carpet while wearing their colours.

 

[Andy_Ross]

In Congress Greene is emerging as a tactician bent on interrupting and delaying routine business as a way of harassing her Democratic colleagues. Greene offers motions to require roll call votes on routine matters as a way of slowing things down. Greene denies this, saying Americans deserve to know exactly how their representative is voting. At the same time Greene regularly introduces motions to adjourn, a tactic that has yet to work but delays proceedings by forty five minutes because of the requirement it be put to a voice vote. This is what Greene tweeted a hour ago



CNN reports that while some Republicans defend Greene some Republican members of Congress find her behavior frustrating.

Isn't disrupting the Dems the main reason she got elected?

I am surprised more of it isn't happening from other Repubs.

 

[The Don]

Only in NE Georgia, where she crawled out from. The majority of the GOP are your actual elites, and know how to play the system...provided some dumb hick isn't stepping in dog-turds and trampling them on the carpet while wearing their colours.

I don't think so. Perhaps the GOP leadership (nationally and locally) are the actual elites but the people who actually vote GOP in large parts of the US are less well educated, poorer whites who want to return to the glory days of the 50's (not sure whether 1850's or 1950's) before the Yankees ruined it for everyone.


edited to add.....

I guess the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. If she becomes a celebrity within the party like Sarah Palin then IMO it's clear that the GOP leadership think she's a vote winner. If they bury her then the opposite is the case.