Really, she should be kicked out of Congress. (Read story here.)
Her constituents had the right to elect her, true enough, but that doesn’t mean Congress has to put up with her. It doesn’t. The Constitution empowers the House of Representives (and Senate, too) to expel its members. This one should be expelled. For this:
“Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress, a CNN KFile review of hundreds of posts and comments from Greene’s Facebook page shows.”
It’s not like she brings anything of value to Congress:
“Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th Congressional District, frequently posted far-right extremist and debunked conspiracy theories on her page, including the baseless QAnon conspiracy ….”
Not exactly someone who’s going to contribute to constructively solving our nation’s problems. Her departure would be no loss.
Greene also is a shameless liar who tried to blame the Capitol insurrection on “Antifa” and Black Lives Matter, in an apparent effort to stir the rightwing extremists responsible for the Capitol attack to act violently against people whose politics she doesn’t like.
These are perilous fraught times. A violent mob just invaded our seat of government, in an attempt to overturn an election and install a dictator, which may have come within a whisker of murdering congresional leaders; this mob of fanatical Trump supporters did murder a cop guarding the Capitol and injure over a hundred others. They were primed to kill.
And Greene helped prime that pump, and is priming it further.
The last thing we need is someone inciting more political violence in our country. President Biden’s inaugural speech calling for unity, bridging differences, and healing is a helpful step toward retreating from the brink. But words alone can’t get the job done. In the aftermath of the insurrection spawned by reckless rhetoric, it’s necessary to crack down hard on the perpetrators.
The forceful actions now being taken against the January 6 rioters — dozens of arrests, with promises of prosecutions to come; employers firing those who rioted, rioters being banned from airlines, and other painful consequences — are essential to deter further political violence.
Letting a member of Congress get away with making public death threats against political opponents, with a very real possibility of inciting potential assassins to violent action, is unacceptably dangerous. It’s important to make an example of her, just as it’s important to severely punish the rioters, and for the same reasons.
The safety of our nation and democracy necessitates expelling Marjorie Taylor Greene from Congress. If her constituents can’t do any better than electing someone like her, they should forfeit their representation in Congress.
Politicians over the years of both parties have sometimes suggested members of the opposing party should be executed. Sometimes it is members of their own party. It is called speech. It does give other members the opportunity to make ethics complaints and the lie. There is a process. There is even one member of Congress who was a Federal Judge until he was impeached. Odd thing is we Americans sometimes know our representative is corrupt, is a thief, is a scoundrel, but we like them and they are our thief/scoundrel so if the House or Senate sends them home we send them right back.
Now if we are trying heal the nation and all that this kind of calling out is counter productive and just shows that all the git along talk to be a scam.
She has engage in speech. Is it speech a Prosecutor would go after? The fact Congress cannot make a bill interfering with speech of any American citizen suggests there is a lot of overreach in this article. That there is a lot of overreach going on in the aftermath is a normal American overreaction. It gave us the Patriot Act and we still have it. Is this past occurrence giving us a Pretorian Guard one politicians can use against each other and ultimately shut down Congress with.
Maybe you ought to go have tea and crumpets with the Representative as that might cause healing somewhere.
My advice to you is: Stop making excuses for these monsters and start thinking like a responsible citizen.
Does excusing hate speech from a hate spewing monster, make the excuser a monster too?
No, but it makes him a troll, which is one of the reasons I just changed the commenting policy. This blog won’t be a soapbox for haters and their apologists.
Are there any rational people still in the Gop? to run against her?
There are better people than this.
Free speech, should not be hate speech.
She brings nothing positive to her party, or to the nation. So, why was she elected?
Is this a reflection of who right wingers are? And what they represent? Hate, racism and white supremacy?
Apparently, she needs some strong rational opponents to run against her, if she isn’t expelled.
Politics isn’t rational, it’s driven by feelings. Many people vote against their own interests by voting with their gut instead of their head. A lot of that is going on in our country right now, and I think it’s partly a reflection of how stressful life had become for America’s middle class. People were stressed out before Trump or the pandemic came along, and I figured something like this might happen. The question is, can we now find a way out? Democrats elected a president who bills himself as a healer, not one of the more partisan or progressive members of their party. Republicans won’t agree with many of his policies, may even consider him radical, but the mere fact Biden is willing to reach across the aisle, and has a long history of doing so, gives them an opportunity to step back from the brink. The ball is in their court. I’m not optimistic.