Marjorie Taylor Greene lays out demands for GOP House speaker vote if Republicans retake majority in 2022
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Donald Trump's staunchest allies in Congress, on Thursday laid out demands for a GOP leader to earn her vote for House Speaker if Republicans are able to retake the majority after the 2022 elections and cast doubt on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy being elected to the position.
Republican thought leader/whacko lays out her demands to McCarthy.
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Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of Donald Trump's staunchest allies in Congress, on Thursday laid out demands for a GOP leader to earn her vote for House Speaker if Republicans are able to retake the majority after the 2022 elections and cast doubt on House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy being elected to the position.
"We know that Kevin McCarthy has a problem in our conference. He doesn't have the full support to be speaker," Greene said on an episode of Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz's podcast that aired Thursday morning. "He doesn't have the votes that are there, because there's many of us that are very unhappy about the failure to hold Republicans accountable, while conservatives like me, Paul Gosar, and many others just constantly take the abuse by the Democrats."
Greene, who previously told reporters she would be laying out a list of demands to earn her speaker vote, mentioned some of the challenges that lay ahead in McCarthy's quest for the speaker's gave l. Among her demands, the Republican told Gaetz she wants fellow GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois and Liz Cheney of Wyoming kicked out of the House Republican Conference for serving on the January 6 committee, something McCarthy has so far resisted. She also said she has no respect for current GOP leadership.
The command from Greene comes amid frustration from some Republicans with GOP House leadership as McCarthy eyes the House leadership position. Trump's allies in Congress -- who have voiced increasing skepticism and frustration with McCarthy in recent weeks -- have already started to flex their muscles in the potential race for speaker, which is still more than a year away.
Depending on the party's margins, McCarthy could have a math problem if these Trump allies stick together. The House Freedom Caucus, which denied McCarthy the speakership once before, is comprised of roughly 40 members.
Some in Trump's orbit, including Gaetz and Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows, have also teased that Trump should make a play for the speaker's gavel, a move that could be designed to put McCarthy on notice and remind him of the leverage that the MAGA wing of the party would have in a speaker's race.
Greene also wants to see moderate Rep. John Katko, a New York Republican and McCarthy ally, lose his top spot on the House Homeland Security Committee. Katko, who represents a key swing district, supported the bipartisan infrastructure law , voted to impeach Trump and supported the Democratic-led effort to remove Greene from her committees.
"Katko's not a Republican. He's a Democrat," Greene said. "Our conference and the NRCC needs to stop playing this majority-maker game."
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She gets to decide who is a Republican.
If this wackado gets voted in again, it says more about the constituency than anything else.
I understand that she is popular in her district. It would say a whole lot about her constituents if she is re-elected, and nothing good.
... they're all related.
Ha!
Therefore all Democrats are like AOC or Rashida Tlaib.*
*(Autocorrect kept wanting to write “Taliban.” I was tempted to let it go just for the LOLs.)
Strawman.
I don't have a problem with either of them. Why do you?
Uh . . . What, now?
Where did I say I had a problem with someone?
McCarthy et al helped create these radical RW nut jobs, he reaps what he sowed.
That's true. And deservedly so.
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How about another quote from the article:
"The Wyoming Republican Party is on the side of destroying democracy."
I didn't know the republicans are now conducting purity tests...
It seems so and MTG and Matt are the new deciders in the purity tests. Scary.
That's been obvious to me for a decade. When they ousted Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar, a moderate and one of the most productive Senators, with the likes of Mourdock, I felt that the quality of GOP candidates would go downhill from there. It has.
Unless you are in lock step with whatever Trump and/or McConnell deem to be the 'party line', you become persona non-grata in the GOP. Last election cycle, most of what was left of the GOP moderates retired from the Senate because they couldn't stomach their own party's bullshit any more.
The GOP is now a party of cowards, the vast majority of whom grovel in fear of Trump's ire. Independent thought is punished, what's best for their constituents be damned.
if they pass, they're awarded a vintage SS uniform...
What the state did was kick her out of their party. McCarthy has no such authority. Hope that clears it up for you.
Oh and BTFW, the Wyoming Republican party can't keep Cheney from running in the Republican primary in Wyoming. So their vote is merely Kabuki theatre.
This is what the Trumpist reactionary extremists think of patriotic Americans.
laid out
She knows all about being laid considering her sexual track record.
Blatant power play.
The power center in the Republican Party appears to be under the firm control of reactionary extremists.
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Same silliness here with Republicans that we frequently see when the Democrats choose their leadership, but in the end they tend to settle on the obvious choice everyone expected anyway.
Did MTG consult with Matt in making up her list?