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“Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right Georgia Republican’s embrace of conspiracy theories and ‘loony lies’ a ‘cancer for the Republican Party.’… The Georgia Republican has expressed support for QAnon conspiracy theories, which focus on the debunked belief that top Democrats are involved in child sex trafficking, Satan worship and cannibalism.” AP News
The right is critical of Greene but does not support expelling her from the House.
“While ‘canceling’ people for old social media posts is distasteful, it seems Greene consciously built a following of crazies and worse in order to further her political career… In addition to anti-Semitic comments on Facebook, Greene supported calls for violence against Democratic leaders, some of them now her colleagues in Congress…
“Greene’s slight suggestion that she did not agree with these statements did not even come close to a satisfying explanation. At the very least, Greene had to clarify that she does not support violence against her colleagues…
“A spokesperson for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told CNN on Friday that McCarthy plans to question Greene about these comments in a meeting next week. McCarthy should not just question her — he should grill her. He should demand a clear, public statement from Greene, along with a convincing retraction of her anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and her support for violence against her colleagues. Republicans and conservatives cannot stand idly by while Marjorie Taylor Greene makes a mockery of our political movement.”
Tyler O’Neil, PJ Media
“Greene is a bad look for the Republican Party and gives both Democrats and the media plenty of fodder to delegitimize the conservative movement. There is no point in waiting to try to find someone to primary Greene and take her out. If Republicans can find someone halfway decent to run against her, they should start fundraising behind that one person immediately to give them the best shot possible of beating Greene…
“Ideally, they could find someone to bring innovative ideas to the Republican Party and Congress. But frankly, almost anyone is better than Greene. The Republicans just need to pick someone, get behind them, oust Greene, and move on with their safe red seat.”
Tom Joyce, Washington Examiner
“Greene, who had the money to fund a race against nine people in a Republican primary, got elected because no one had knowledge about her. She’s not even from the district in which she got elected. Her election is not a damning indictment on the people of Georgia, but on the political class… I was told by Republican operatives… that Greene had a ceiling in the runoff and all I needed to do was warn voters about voting for her. They said she couldn’t win the runoff. They were wrong…
“Greene is going nowhere. If Ralph Northam could survive black face, Greene, who has no sense of shame, will go nowhere now. She’ll double down and some will defend her… I should conclude by noting the Democrats have their own crazy. The Democrats turned a blind eye to Maxine Waters calling for harassment of Republicans in public. But just because they don’t hold their own accountable doesn’t mean we should behave the same.”
Erick Erickson, Substack
Some argue, “Greene isn’t a victim here. She’s legitimately crazy and has to own her words, down to her blaming Jews for shooting blue laser beams to start forest fires. There’s nothing endearing about this woman. She’s your crazy aunt that subsists off of conspiracy theory chain emails and Facebook…
“[But] Greene is inconsequential as a politician and within the party. She should not be at the top of the news, and the only reason she’s appearing there is because the left see her as a tool to wield… there is no logical reason to elevate Greene above what she is, which is nothing at all. That’s precisely what the media and Democrats want. They want the ‘alt-right,’ QAnon, and Greene being talked about. In reality, she’s her constituents’ problem, and they can deal with her as they see fit in 2022.”
Bonchie, RedState
“If her Republican and Democratic opponents in the House primary failed to make the case against her using publicly available information, why should McCarthy penalize her for it now?… we typically don’t go around usurping voters’ choices of their representatives based on old sins that the voters could have considered, and possibly did consider, in making that choice… In a democracy, the people are entitled to get the representation they want. Here’s what Georgia Republicans wanted, I guess.”
Allahpundit, Hot Air
The left condemns Greene and criticizes Republicans for not taking action against her.
The left condemns Greene and criticizes Republicans for not taking action against her.
“[Greene’s] greatest hits include promoting the conspiracy theory that blames the 2018 Camp Fire wildfire in California on a space laser controlled by a prominent Jewish banking family, suggesting the Obama administration used its MS-13 ‘henchmen’ to murder a Democratic National Committee staff member and floating the idea that the Clintons had John F. Kennedy Jr. killed…
“In 2019, the House minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, stripped Steve King of his committee posts for defending white nationalism… The Iowa lawmaker had a long history of racist remarks, for which voters had largely given him a pass. But losing his committee assignments did not simply mark Mr. King, it drained his influence and his ability to serve constituents. Mr. King lost his primary race last year, ending his nine terms in office. Mr. McCarthy needs to take substantive action of this kind with Ms. Greene. Voters may have just chosen Ms. Greene to represent them, but her Republican colleagues have the leeway to declare that she does not represent them.”
Editorial Board, New York Times
“The Republicans’ unwillingness to confront the dark forces within their party is not only unseemly but dangerous. On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security issued a bulletin warning of a ‘heightened threat environment’ in which ‘ideologically-motivated violent extremists’ are likely to act upon ‘perceived grievances fueled by false narratives.’… At a minimum, Greene should be censured, with the idea that she is on some sort of probation that could lead to being kicked out if she doesn’t clean up her act.”
Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
“If Greene was a Democrat who had endorsed political violence the Republicans would have demanded her resignation already. I mean, Katie Hill, a Democrat, was forced to resign after she was accused of having a relationship with a staffer and nude pictures of her were published online. Republicans were outraged about that… [Greene is] a symptom of a much deeper rot in American politics. The Republicans knew exactly who Greene was when she decided to run for election and did nothing to sanction or stop her… Greene isn’t an outlier in the GOP: she’s the new face of the post-Trump Republican party.”
Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian
“On Jan. 4, the Arizona G.O.P. retweeted a ‘Stop the Steal’ activist who’d pronounced himself willing to “give my life” to overturn the election. Said the party’s official account: ‘He is. Are you?’ An Arizona lawmaker has since introduced a bill that would let the Legislature, controlled by Republicans, override the presidential vote of the state’s increasingly Democratic citizenry. The Oregon Republican Party approved a resolution suggesting that the Capitol siege was a ‘false flag’ attack. The Texas Republican Party has adopted the QAnon slogan ‘We are the storm’ as its motto, though it insists there’s no connection…
“There was a moment, after the Capitol riot, when it seemed as if a critical mass of the Republican Party was recoiling at what it had created. But the moment passed, because it would have required the party’s putative leaders to defy too many of their followers.”
Michelle Goldberg, New York Times
“Republicans may punish Liz Cheney while letting Qanon Congresswoman slide… the House Republican Conference on Wednesday will meet to consider stripping her ranking as the number three GOP lawmaker in the chamber for breaking with Trump…
“A conservative through-and-through, the Wyoming representative voted with Trump nearly 93 percent of the time during his presidency and, like every House Republican, declined to hold him accountable in 2019 for seeking to leverage United States foreign policy to his own electoral advantage. But she finally drew the line when he incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last month and was one of 10 GOP representatives to join their Democratic colleagues in voting to impeach him…
“As of now, it looks like the GOP seems far more willing to tolerate a dangerous and deranged conspiracy theorist than a dyed-in-the-wool conservative whose only deviation from the party line was insufficient personal fealty to Trump.”
Eric Lutz, Vanity Fair
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