McConnell and McCarthy rebuke Greene for Holocaust remarks but stop short of taking action against rising GOP star
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Via: tessylo • 3 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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It's obvious to me now why this loud mouth skank keeps spewing her garbage and why now McCarthy and McConnell are now saying we condemn this loud mouthed POS and her verbal diarrhea now (yet we're still not going to do anything about the skank) - it's to take all of our attention away from their complicity with the former occupant of the White House and his mob's failed coup/insurrection on 1/6/21.
Greene, McConnell, McCarthy - all complicit in 1/6/21.
both of those Mc's are scared shitless of her. like all the other nazis and racists in the seditionist party, they won't do do anything about them because they need all the votes of the entire fascist coalition.
Look at the hateful evil they've unleashed on us . . .
Rebuking her in front of the cameras, patting her on the back in private.
Or perhaps it was a case of .. .patting her on the privates in back?
(Sorry, just couldn't resist that one
)
Unlikely. She may be blond, but she is too old for the current Republicans.
Yeah, she's reached puberty. . .
Also damn ugly down to the bone!
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.
I don't hear 'much of congress' making such remarks except the gop/gqp.
Cuz they don't say it fucking out loud FFS. Grow up. We are all adults and the behind the scenes shit is much more juicy that what you may see in the press.
But the gop/gqp do say it out loud. But it's not her fault, it's those damn Jewish space lasers again.
Goddamn right. They aren't pussies and afraid to say what they really think.
Except about Trump?
So which is it? 'Cuz' they don't fucking say it out loud FFS' or 'Goddamn right. They aren't pussies and afraid to say what they really think.'
Like trumpturd you contradict yourself within the same statement.
You make it sound like you admire that trait in others.
Then I suggest you need to listen more. Here are some examples.
Senator Apologizes For Nazi Comparison
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With cries of 'racist' and 'Nazi,' Democrats betray our history
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Cruz, AOC exchange blows on ‘Nazi’ accusations
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‘I’m beginning to see what happened in Germany’: Democrat compares Trump refusing to concede to rise of Hitler
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Nazi comparisons have long been off-limits for American Jews. A new political ad suggests that’s changing in the Trump era.
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Rep. Hank Johnson compares Trump to Hitler in a foreboding speech
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Top House Democrats compare Trump’s rise to Hitler’s
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‘He’s sort of like Goebbels’: Biden compares Trump to Nazi propagandist
The fun part about that last one is that only 3 months later, Biden compared Ted Cruz to the same Nazi.
Joe Biden likens Ted Cruz to Nazi propagandist Goebbels for helping Trump spread ‘big lie’ about election fraud
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Port: Heidi Heitkamp says she may be subject to 'defamation' for calling actress Gina Carano a 'Nazi'
And those are just Democrats. There are plenty of Republicans who do it, too.
You know Democrats are held to different standards. 99% of the left believe every word they say as well; so that makes it OK.
Well then I suggest that you post links that address the holocaust [a policy] instead of Hitler [a politician] or Nazi's [a political party].
After all, that's what the seed is about.
Deflection and projection and denial are all the trumpturd supporters have.
All the comparisons of trumpturd to Hitler are true though.
You are correct, Democrats hold themselves to higher standards. Just ask former Senator Franken.
We actually have standards, unlike the repukes.
Really. And there I thought this seed was about one Congresswoman, her stupid ideas and the inability for the Republican Party to properly discipline her.
I thought you were ignoring me snuffy. Why are you on this seed?
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I appreciate you keeping me on the front page!
It was doing just fine until the usual suspects started their usual shit
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First of all, it’s hard to imagine a dumber proposition than this one from you that somehow Hitler or the Nazis are off-topic from a seed about a reference to THE Holocaust. I mean we all read some silly comments around here, but that one wins.
Second, the exchange between Tessylo and myself begins with me using the words “an inappropriate nazi reference” to describe Greene’s words, which Tessylo was smart enough to realize was entirely appropriate because she didn’t object like you are.
Third, Greene herself referenced the Nazis with her own words in the very comment that is the subject of the seed. That information is in the seed, if only you would read it.
So Green obviously intended her Holocaust reference as a Nazi reference. She is the one who used the word. Everyone in the world - and here on this site - understood it as such. You are the first known person on Planet Earth to assert that somehow comparing someone to Hitler or the Nazis is substantially different than comparing their policies to the Holocaust.
This is the first time in history of dumb comments that anyone has suggested that comparing mask requirements to the Holocaust would not be “an inappropriate nazi reference.”
In fact, if we are to be slave to your ridiculous standard, then you are the one who is totally wrong, because Greene never used the word “Holocaust.” Is that supposed to mean she wasn’t referencing it? She talked about an abusive policy as used in Nazi Germany, and you managed to figure out that she meant the Holocaust even though she never used the word. Amazing!
But perhaps you have never heard of this tactic I was discussing? You see, saying that a policy is like the Holocaust is part of a larger trend we see in politics where political enemies try to cast each other in the role of the Nazis or Hitler. That larger trend is what I referenced in my comment @7. The sole purpose of this silly tactic is to demonize someone in the most obvious, but laziest way possible.
So, “Holocaust?” “Nazi?” “Hitler?” They’re all tied together. That should be obvious. It’s absurd that it had to be explained to anyone.
I suggest you stop with your deflections, projections, and denials. . . go talk down to someone else. .
It would be neat if you would at least acknowledge when people you talk to have supported their position with actual evidence.
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You have supplied nothing but deflection, projection and denial.
Stop insulting people on my seeds.
We don't need your 'explanations'
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DEFLECTION!
just flag it as off-topic.
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I'm sure I'll get the ticket and not them. Even though they're trolling big time.
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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?
Please don't feed the trolls.
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.
A feckless cunt calling a feckless cunt a feckless cunt . . . .
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 is so typical of today's republican party.
As for adhering to conspiracy theories and total lack of principles, agreed, but most Republicans are more intelligent. In fact MOST PEOPLE are more intelligent.
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