Tag Archives: Marjorie Taylor Greene

Mediaite has the transcript: GREENE: I would have you know, Mr. Wray, that this one right here, this person involved in the global intifada group that illegally– they broke the law, came in and occupied the Cannon Office House Building, interrupted Congress, interrupted hearings. Right here, Katrina Bleckley, is the lead attorney for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Were you …

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: My Democrat colleague across the aisle who’s 80 years old and has been here over 30 years just said we’re on the verge of a shutdown. She probably just forgot that a few hours ago, she voted for the continuing resolution that will extend the budget and we are not on the verge of a shutdown. …

Axios reports: The House on Monday voted to kill a resolution introduced by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) to impeach Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Greene’s decision to force a vote on impeaching Mayorkas forced vulnerable Republicans to take a politically risky vote on an impeachment many still view as half-baked. Eight Republicans voted with Democrats to block the …

The Daily Beast reports: After Rep. Lauren Boebert helped get Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus over the summer, Greene has been on a payback mission against her former friend-turned-nemesis. And after a date at Beetlejuice The Musical turned into a national conversation about groping, Greene has resorted to a playbook familiar to any woman …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday filed a motion calling for the impeachment of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas over the Biden administration’s handling of the U.S. southern border. The resolution is privileged, which means the House has to move on it within 48 business hours. Greene said she expects a vote next week. Impeaching …

“Republicans are losing Republican voters because the base is fed up with weak Republicans who never do anything to actually stop the communist democrats. “Our voters are not inspired to vote for a party that wants to play nice and refuses to hold accountable communists who locked everyone down during the scamdemic, violated their free speech and censored us on …

Politico reports: The House GOP moved to reduce Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s salary to just $1, the conference’s latest move as conservatives have explored using obscure funding rules to exact political pain on the Biden administration. The cut for Buttigieg was adopted by voice vote as an amendment to the fiscal 2024 Transportation-HUD spending bill and was put forth by …

“In our conference we had Matt Gaetz and seven other Republicans that declared red lines, where any speaker that passes a CR [continuing resolution for funding] or funds Ukraine war funding should be ousted. “So my question is, we’re about to have Speaker Mike Johnson pass the CR. And he is talking about passing mega, mega Ukraine funding = trying …

GOP Rep. Ryan Zinke: “This only pertains to monuments that commemorate the Founding Fathers of the United States on land under [federal] jurisdiction. I don’t recall how many monuments there are to the Founding Fathers, but there’s not many and I don’t recall any being a safety issue. Matter of fact, I recall all of them being a part of …

Salon reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., lashed out as House Freedom Caucus members on Thursday after nearly two dozen Republicans voted to shoot down her attempt to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a fellow MAGA Republican and member of the far-right House Freedom Caucus, criticized Greene’s “feckless resolution” as “deeply flawed” and filled with “factually …

The Hill reports: House Democrats scrapped plans to vote on a resolution to censure Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Wednesday, a last-minute move that came immediately after a coalition of Republicans joined with Democrats in torpedoing a resolution to censure Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) over her criticism of Israel. Rep. Becca Balint’s resolution, which stretches eight pages, is a …

Mediaite has the transcript and it’s a doozy: Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly fanned the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, Islamophobia, anti-Asian hate, xenophobia, and other forms of hatred; Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly debased the memories of thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, by perpetuating conspiracy theories to …

The Insider reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is vowing to oppose her party’s nominee for speaker of the House when it comes to a vote on the floor — because he has cancer. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise narrowly clinched the nomination for speaker during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, defeating Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio in a narrow 113-99 …

Salon reports: In a now deleted message to X on Sunday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga. fumbled a Yom Kippur greeting by using incorrect imagery associated with an entirely different Jewish holiday. In her original message, she wrote, “To all those preparing for the solemn day of Yom Kippur, I wish you a meaningful fast. Gamar Chasima Tova!” And along …

“And over in Ukraine, Charlie, by the way we haven’t even talked about this, the country that Mitch McConnell and Schumer and Lindsay Graham and Tom Cotton and everybody can’t wait to give another 100 billion dollars to, Ukraine is one of the worst countries on the Earth for child sex trafficking and they’re harvesting children’s organs over there.” – …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the Georgia Republican who overcame Democratic silencing efforts to become one of the most effective voices on the Right, is getting ready to settle some scores with an autobiography that could pave the way to higher office — including the vice presidency. Greene told Secrets that her new book, being …

“Guys, come on. We know that if Lauren Boebert were rubbing the crotch of a drag queen in a library while the drag queen was grabbing Boebert’s breasts, the left would be fine with it. But you’d all be condemning it. “We shouldn’t react to the left’s outrage over Boebert’s behavior in a theater by defending Boebert’s ‘do you know …

The Hill reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) on Thursday dubbed the House Freedom Caucus the “burn-it-all-down caucus,” a swipe at the conservative group that ousted her from its ranks over the summer. “I’m not a member of the burn-it-all-down caucus anymore,” Greene told reporters. “I’m a greatly, very happily a free agent and I want to do my job …

NBC News reports: Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., a member of the hardline conservative House Freedom Caucus, dismissed Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s comments on a timeline for an impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden as “absurd” during an interview on “Inside with Jen Psaki” on Sunday. In a video posted online last month, Greene said she won’t support any measure to …

Rolling Stone reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake have been locked in what one source close to Donald Trump describes to Rolling Stone as a “death race” to become his 2024 vice presidential pick. The two view one another with intense distrust and disdain, each seeing the other as direct competition for Trump’s political affections. Exacerbating the situation is …