Stuck with her
Marjorie Greene has been stripped of her committee duties, and she’s exploiting her rebuke as a way to get people to give her money. Very trumpy.
Greene defended herself ahead of the vote in a speech on the House floor and attempted to distance herself from the dangerous and debunked QAnon conspiracy theory, which she has previously embraced.
But Democratic Rep. Jimmy Gomez of California, who has introduced a resolution to expel Greene, told reporters he still believes she should be removed from Congress even after watching her floor remarks. The congressman said of his resolution, “I’m committed to bringing it up, and I said that to leadership that there needs to be a vote sooner rather or later on this.”
Gomez said that the reason why he is pursuing a resolution to expel Greene “is to send a message that this kind of discourse in our politics is not acceptable, inciting political violence, threatening people as is not acceptable and a person like that should not hold a position in the House of Representatives.”
But the voters voted her, so that’s that.
The Constitution gives Congress the ability to impeach federal officials and judges, but not its own members. They can only be removed by expulsion, which requires a 2/3 vote, a high bar that would be unlikely to be cleared with Democrats holding only a narrow majority.
Hey, all she did was threaten to kill them.
Greene, meanwhile, has been highlighting how much she has been able to fundraise amid the controversy sparked by reports over her past conduct, including from CNN’s KFile that she repeatedly indicated support for executing prominent Democratic politicians in 2018 and 2019 before being elected to Congress.
That’s democracy.
At least she’s off the committees. I suppose we cannot hope for her to be kicked out of Congress altogether. I listened a little to her ‘defence’, but found it so dishonest and infantile that I stopped. And good for Steny Hoyer.
Yes, at least her influence is greatly reduced without having any say on any committees. And a good message has been sent.
Also, it’s quite slimy in my opinion for Kevin McCarthy to give her a pass with the excuse that she said these things “before she was elected”. Yeah, McCarthy, but it was RIGHT before: as in, she said these things as part of her election campaign. It’s what got her elected.
And that’s what’s really scary. Our neighbors…our families…voted for her because she said those things.
Yeah, exactly.
Can I just get off the country here and walk back?