McConnell and McCarthy rebuke Greene for Holocaust remarks but stop short of taking action against rising GOP star
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Via: tessylo • 5 years ago • 55 commentsBy: David Knowles, Editor, Yahoo News
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McConnell and McCarthy rebuke Greene for Holocaust remarks but stop short of taking action against rising GOP star
The controversy was just the latest in a series of incendiary comments from Greene that stretch back to before she was elected last year.
“Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling," House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said in a statement. "The Holocaust is the greatest atrocity committed in history. The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling."
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell also expressed his displeasure with Greene's comparison . “Once again an outrageous and reprehensible comment," he told reporters on Capitol Hill.
In an interview last week with Christian Broadcasting Network anchor David Brody, Greene made headlines when she likened mask restrictions intended to stop the spread of COVID-19 to the systematic slaughter of Jews in Europe.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call Inc. via Getty Images)
"You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about," Greene told Brody.
With outrage over her remarks growing louder, Greene doubled down on the comparison in a Tuesday-morning tweet.
In a statement, a spokesperson for Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., the second most powerful House Republican, said Scalise “does not agree with these comments and condemns these comparisons to the Holocaust."
Yet none of the GOP leaders who spoke out on Greene's latest transgression signaled any willingness to expel her from the Republican caucus, perhaps in part because she enjoys growing support from the party's pro-Trump base.
That fact has left a vocal minority of Republicans demanding action.
While Greene regularly assails the congressional leadership of the Republican Party and its moderate members, McConnell and McCarthy know that the GOP has little chance of winning elections without the majority of the party that believes that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump and that masks and vaccines should be viewed suspiciously. It's that tension that helps explain why McCarthy and McConnell have both rejected the creation of a bipartisan commission to examine the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump's supporters, and why McCarthy has gone to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago despite the fact that the former president continues to insist that his loss to President Biden was attributable to election fraud.
For her part, Greene seems intent on stepping over the line at every opportunity, which includes a Trump-like attempt to oust those from the Republican Party who reject the former president's baseless claims about the election.
“You know you’re a Democrat if your name is Liz Cheney,” Greene said Friday at an "America First" rally in Mesa, Ariz. “You know you might be a Democrat if your name is Adam Kinzinger. You know you might be a Democrat and have a serious problem in your primary election if you’re one of the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach President Trump.”
Even after McCarthy, McConnell and Scalise had criticized Greene for her Holocaust comparisons, she signaled she would not be backing down, and, in a tweet, insisted that the left's "attempts to shame, ostracize, and brand Americans who choose not to get vaccinated or wear a mask are reminiscent of the great tyrants of history who did the same to those who would not comply."
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Well, the Republicans have always been strong advocates of "free speech".
/sarc
No surprise that the spineless duo did nothing much about her comments.
She's the queen of the Trumpublican Party and only parrots what Q tells her to say through the dental fillings in her teeth.
What action? And for what? What she said was dumb, but hardly unique. If you’re standing in Washington D.C., you can’t swing a dead cat and not hit someone who has made an inappropriate nazi reference. You’d better be prepared to “take action” against much of Congress, not to mention the press corps.
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You mean the ones that have apologized for it several dozen times, and have not since repeated the claim? Them?
Has Greene apologized for any of her outrageous statements? Why was she kicked off all House committees again?
They have?
When?
Be specific...
Not surprised you can't provide any proof.
Maybe one of the five that upvoted you can......but I doubt it
It's very simple, Mc Carthy is waiting for Trump to tell him what to do or say about this.
I doubt very much that Trump will condemn Taylor Greene for her bizarre and offensive comments about the Holocaust. Trump feels like he has a "get out of jail free card" when it comes to "jewish" issues because his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism to align her religion with her husbands. Trump can always say, "I cant be anti-semitic, my daughter is Jewish".
Someone on twitter today called McCarthy a "feckless c-nt" , and Taylor-Greene thanked the tweeter.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Praises Tweet Calling Kevin ...
“Thank you for seeing the truth,” Greene told a Twitter user who tweeted that McCarthy was a “moron” and a “ feckless c**t” while defending Greene for comparing mask mandates to the ...
McCarthy will respond to his subordinate Taylor-Greene agreeing that he is a "feckless c-nt" as soon as his daddy Trump tells him what to say.
I beg to differ from the general opinion. I say not only should the GQP leave her there, they should promote her, glorify her, get her to talk more, do interviews and talk shows. She's the best thing to happen to lose conservative votes in a long time, so consider her a benefit to the Democrats.
I like to refer to Jean Reno's remark about the glass pyramid in front of the Louvre in the movie The DaVinci Code: "It is a scar on the face of Paris". Greene is a scar on the face of the Republican Party.
She may be an ignorant Qunt, but she scares the snowflakes on the right into submission with every idiotic comment she makes.
I like how you spelled that