Every single house Republican just voted to keep her on the committees she was serving on.
Fuck
To expand on this;
1) not surprised but
2) deeply disappointed. This is not partisan. A woman who claims that a school shooting was faked to take people's guns away and harasses one of the survivors (I've seen the video) has no place on the education committee. It is shameful and unforgivable that the GOP make this a partisan issue.
It is only a partisan issue because the GOP refuse to get their house in order.
She said (or retweeted?) something about executing Speaker Nancy Pelosi. The GOP might want to consider what they'd do if a Democratic Congress critter said that about a Republican speaker of the house.
Does anyone still do deprogramming of (former) cult members? A whole lot of GOP hierarchy members and Congress critters could use a nice, long stay.
As could the rioters, the Q-Anon folks, and T's followers.
The House voted to dismiss her from her committees. AIUI, 10-12 Republicans and all the Democrats voted that way.
From the Graun:
Greene had delivered a speech before her fellow lawmakers in which she denied her previous, baseless claims that the September 11 attack and Parkland massacre were staged.
I reiterate: she doesn't actually believe the things she says. It's simply a performance to gain influence, reputation, money and votes.
Thank you all for your assessments of her. I still apologise for my flippancy, she's much too dangerous for that.
Madame is off to work today, so I walked alone this morning. Wondering if the Republican powers-that-be have written-off the 2024 elections and are allowing MTG a pretty free run now in the hope that by 2028 she'll have written herself off?
I think a lot of the Republican establishment would be pleased if she self-destructed or was wiped out by an asteroid or something, as long as it didn't look like they had a hand in her downfall.
But I think it's very unlikely they've written anything off - four years seems like an eternity in politics these days. The Senate is balanced on a knife's edge, and they made deep inroads into the Democratic majority in the House. The next congressional elections are in 2022 and off-year elections typically favor the party that lost the last presidential election, so they have reason to hope they can take back one or both houses, frustrate Biden's agenda, and run against his failure to keep his promises in 2024.
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
I think a lot of the Republican establishment would be pleased if she self-destructed or was wiped out by an asteroid or something, as long as it didn't look like they had a hand in her downfall. [...]
She might accidentally walk into one of her Jewish Space Lasers?
What worries me is exactly that: She needs to recant. Everything. CNN (et al) is doing a good job digging up her sins past and present. However, she is unlikely to ever go on CNN. I would like to see her interviewed and filmed, and asked about each and every single weirdness, lie and abomniation she's ever spouted, with place, date and time, and her current position on this - without her having the chance to run away.
She has threatened with violence not just Pelosi, but also a number of other Democrats, some of whom are now forced to sit and work in the same House as her. This is inacceptable.
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
Even if you had compulsory voting, the agreement of 40% of the district is an excellent start. With voting optional, that may well be enough to be elected.
Ummm...are you saying it's good she was elected? That it would be good for her to be re-elected? That's the only sense I can make of your "Even if" post.
Anderson Cooper recently interviewed an ex-Q-Anon man. It turned out that he and others believed that AC and others "ate babies"--or at least drank their blood. He no longer believes that, and apologized to AC. The accusations against him were a surprise to AC.
To paraphrase Ariel in "The Tempest", "O strange, new world that has such creatures in it".
In "The Matrix", Neo has a choice of the Blue Pill, which lets him continue to see the illusory reality, or the Red Pill, which shows him the true, dystopian reality. I think MTG is using a multi-colored paisley horse pill, psychdelic in nature, plus hypodermic drugs of an unknown nature. And she washes it all down with a proprietary mix of coffee, alcohol, guarana, ayahuasca, and guano. Legal note: NOT accusing her of actually doing that, just speculating on possible causes for her behavior.
Ummm...are you saying it's good she was elected? That it would be good for her to be re-elected? That's the only sense I can make of your "Even if" post.
Far from saying that it was good that she was elected, or would be re-elected, but rather that on the 40% figure for support for her opinions etc from voters, the result is not surprising especially given that voting is optional.
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
Thank GOD!!! Only 40% of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
I reiterate: she doesn't actually believe the things she says. It's simply a performance to gain influence, reputation, money and votes.
I wouldn't be so quick to make that assumption. The underlying premise is that the views she espouses are popular and have a sizeable constituency (at least within her district) to explain why the politician is trying to curry favor in this way. It seems fairly obvious that if a set of ideas does actually have a widespread following that a true believer could successfully run for office.
I came across variants of this when it came to explaining why certain politicians weren't really racist, merely using racism to gain popularity. It didn't seems particularly convincing then either.
I think a lot of the Republican establishment would be pleased if she self-destructed or was wiped out by an asteroid or something, as long as it didn't look like they had a hand in her downfall.
I can't find the reference now, but at least one of the House Democrats made a statement blaming Republicans for making the whole House deal with this issue. Kevin McCarthy was willing to strip Steve King of committee assignments by acting within his prerogatives as Republican House leader, but with Greene it took the House as a whole acting.
But I think it's very unlikely they've written anything off - four years seems like an eternity in politics these days. The Senate is balanced on a knife's edge, and they made deep inroads into the Democratic majority in the House. The next congressional elections are in 2022 and off-year elections typically favor the party that lost the last presidential election, so they have reason to hope they can take back one or both houses, frustrate Biden's agenda, and run against his failure to keep his promises in 2024.
House elections in 2022 will largely be determined by the state of the American economy in 2022. Hence the Democratic support for and Republican opposition to a large COVID relief package.
The Senate race will be interesting in 2022. Thirty-four seats are due for election, absent death or resignation of Senators between now and then. Twenty are currently held by Republican and fourteen have Democratic incumbents. Three of the Republican Senators who would otherwise be up for re-election have announced their retirement: Burr (North Carolina), Portman (Ohio), and Toomey (Pennsylvania). These are all nominally swingable states so the lack of an incumbent in any of them will be interesting. No Democratic Senators up for re-election in 2022 have announced their retirement yet. The most vulnerable Democratic Senators in 2022 are probably Warnock (Georgia) and Kelly (Arizona), who both won special elections in 2020 in swing states. The first re-election campaign is always the hardest, and they'll only have two years worth of accomplishments to show the folks back home.
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
Thank GOD!!! Only 40% of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
No, all you can say is that 40% of the Republicans in her district could be neo-fascist. If you extend that out to all Americans it would only mean that 12% of all Americans have neo-fascist leanings. That is still a big number (about 30 million people) but far different than 120 million people.
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
Thank GOD!!! Only 40% of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
No, all you can say is that 40% of the Republicans in her district could be neo-fascist. If you extend that out to all Americans it would only mean that 12% of all Americans have neo-fascist leanings. That is still a big number (about 30 million people) but far different than 120 million people.
I think a lot of the Republican establishment would be pleased if she self-destructed or was wiped out by an asteroid or something, as long as it didn't look like they had a hand in her downfall.
I can't find the reference now, but at least one of the House Democrats made a statement blaming Republicans for making the whole House deal with this issue. Kevin McCarthy was willing to strip Steve King of committee assignments by acting within his prerogatives as Republican House leader, but with Greene it took the House as a whole acting.
who both won special elections in 2020 in swing states. The first re-election campaign is always the hardest, and they'll only have two years worth of accomplishments to show the folks back home.
Why did he blame the Republicans? What happened showed that a vote of the whole House in effect condemned her and her stance. I'd say that that was worthwhile.
Traditionally the parties have disciplined their own members for such things. The Republicans are blameworthy in this case because by failing to deal with her themselves and making the House do it, they’ve insured that the situation is reduced to a partisan conflict. Repudiation would be much more effective if it came from her own party.
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
Thank GOD!!! Only 40% of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
No, all you can say is that 40% of the Republicans in her district could be neo-fascist. If you extend that out to all Americans it would only mean that 12% of all Americans have neo-fascist leanings. That is still a big number (about 30 million people) but far different than 120 million people.
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results
In the Georgia Republican primary, only registered members of the Republican party in her district can vote. While Greene's district is predominately Republican, nationwide the Republican party makes up less than 1/3 of the voters in the United States. Therefore 40% of the Republican party would be 12% of the nations' voters. This is similar to an ABC Report that says 1 in 10 Americans feel it is okay to harbor Nazi beliefs.
A vote almost entirely along party lines is not particularly helpful. It’s important that the Republicans reject her and make it clear that they find her unacceptable.
A vote almost entirely along party lines is not particularly helpful. It’s important that the Republicans reject her and make it clear that they find her unacceptable.
But if you are a white Republican voter, you would just hate to vote Democrat, especially if the Democrat was endorsed by Stacy Abrams.
The vast majority of Republicans don’t live in her district, and the ones who do could have chosen a different Republican to vote for. And maybe they’d be more likely to, if other Republicans took a stand against her.
The vast majority of Republicans don’t live in her district, and the ones who do could have chosen a different Republican to vote for. And maybe they’d be more likely to, if other Republicans took a stand against her.
I'd guess she "primaried" somebody more reasonable and rational than herself and won the vote by being kooky and intransigent.
The vast majority of Republicans don’t live in her district, and the ones who do could have chosen a different Republican to vote for. And maybe they’d be more likely to, if other Republicans took a stand against her.
I'd guess she "primaried" somebody more reasonable and rational than herself and won the vote by being kooky and intransigent.
Correct. The guy was/is a pro-Trump, pro-life, pro-gun neurosurgeon.
No, it was an open seat. Greene won the Republican primary runoff by defeating a neurosurgeon (also a Trump supporter, but probably not as much of a nut job.)
The vast majority of Republicans don’t live in her district, and the ones who do could have chosen a different Republican to vote for. And maybe they’d be more likely to, if other Republicans took a stand against her.
I'd guess she "primaried" somebody more reasonable and rational than herself and won the vote by being kooky and intransigent.
This, to me, is one of the more worrying aspects of the US federal elections of 2016 and 2020 -- the apparent cynicism with which a scarily large chunk of Americans seem to have cast "oh-what-the-hell" ballots in culpable collaboration with the True Loony Believers.
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
Thank GOD!!! Only 40% of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
No, all you can say is that 40% of the Republicans in her district could be neo-fascist. If you extend that out to all Americans it would only mean that 12% of all Americans have neo-fascist leanings. That is still a big number (about 30 million people) but far different than 120 million people.
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results
In the Georgia Republican primary, only registered members of the Republican party in her district can vote. While Greene's district is predominately Republican, nationwide the Republican party makes up less than 1/3 of the voters in the United States. Therefore 40% of the Republican party would be 12% of the nations' voters. This is similar to an ABC Report that says 1 in 10 Americans feel it is okay to harbor Nazi beliefs.
Not 40% of Republicans, 40% of her district based on 57% support in the primary run-off and ~75% voting Republican in that district normally.
No, it was an open seat. Greene won the Republican primary runoff by defeating a neurosurgeon (also a Trump supporter, but probably not as much of a nut job.)
No, it was an open seat. Greene won the Republican primary runoff by defeating a neurosurgeon (also a Trump supporter, but probably not as much of a nut job.)
How is that a "No" to what I said?
"Primaried" usually refers to challenging an incumbent in the primary, does it not?
I was forgetting that all Representatives would be up for re-election in 2022. Probably not long enough for her to completely write herself off. Can you imagine what it must be like living in her electorate!
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
Thank GOD!!! Only 40% of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
No, all you can say is that 40% of the Republicans in her district could be neo-fascist. If you extend that out to all Americans it would only mean that 12% of all Americans have neo-fascist leanings. That is still a big number (about 30 million people) but far different than 120 million people.
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results
In the Georgia Republican primary, only registered members of the Republican party in her district can vote. While Greene's district is predominately Republican, nationwide the Republican party makes up less than 1/3 of the voters in the United States. Therefore 40% of the Republican party would be 12% of the nations' voters. This is similar to an ABC Report that says 1 in 10 Americans feel it is okay to harbor Nazi beliefs.
OK, Thank GOD!!! Only 12%, 1:8 of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
I fear our lunatics may be longer lasting than the US variety. Because they don’t say what they think in public. They’ve been around longer and honed their strategies over many more centuries.
They are much more subtle in their methods of keeping the poor poor and the very rich ... ... very rich.
It’s easier to purge the brash, obvious and stupid lunatics like MTG.
No, it was an open seat. Greene won the Republican primary runoff by defeating a neurosurgeon (also a Trump supporter, but probably not as much of a nut job.)
How is that a "No" to what I said?
"Primaried" usually refers to challenging an incumbent in the primary, does it not?
I fear our lunatics may be longer lasting than the US variety. Because they don’t say what they think in public. They’ve been around longer and honed their strategies over many more centuries.
They are much more subtle in their methods of keeping the poor poor and the very rich ... ... very rich.
It’s easier to purge the brash, obvious and stupid lunatics like MTG.
It took 4 years to purge DJT. But yes, our parasites are more evolved.
But at least this stupid evil lying bitch shot herself in the mouth.
No, it was an open seat. Greene won the Republican primary runoff by defeating a neurosurgeon (also a Trump supporter, but probably not as much of a nut job.)
How is that a "No" to what I said?
"Primaried" usually refers to challenging an incumbent in the primary, does it not?
I can't find the reference now, but at least one of the House Democrats made a statement blaming Republicans for making the whole House deal with this issue. Kevin McCarthy was willing to strip Steve King of committee assignments by acting within his prerogatives as Republican House leader, but with Greene it took the House as a whole acting.
Why did he blame the Republicans? What happened showed that a vote of the whole House in effect condemned her and her stance. I'd say that that was worthwhile.
As @Dave Wpoints out, it's usually the job of the parties to discipline rogue members (except in instances of actual criminality). This fulfills a couple of purposes. It fosters party discipline, illustrating what kind of behaviors are outside the lines. It prevents the perception that maintaining standards is a form of partisan payback. And it allows the House to concentrate on doing its job. The complaint here is that by failing to enforce discipline within their caucus Republicans have failed in all three ways, forcing the House as a whole to divert time and energy from legislating to maintaining the standards that the Republican House caucus should be able to maintain itself.
I'd guess she "primaried" somebody more reasonable and rational than herself and won the vote by being kooky and intransigent.
Not quite. She started off running for the seat in Georgia's 6th Congressional District in 2020 and then switched over to the 14th when the Republican incumbent there announced he wasn't running for re-election. She's got family money. Not a huge amount, but enough to make that kind of district shopping available to her.
I'd guess she "primaried" somebody more reasonable and rational than herself and won the vote by being kooky and intransigent.
Not quite. She started off running for the seat in Georgia's 6th Congressional District in 2020 and then switched over to the 14th when the Republican incumbent there announced he wasn't running for re-election. She's got family money. Not a huge amount, but enough to make that kind of district shopping available to her.
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To expand on this;
1) not surprised but
2) deeply disappointed. This is not partisan. A woman who claims that a school shooting was faked to take people's guns away and harasses one of the survivors (I've seen the video) has no place on the education committee. It is shameful and unforgivable that the GOP make this a partisan issue.
It is only a partisan issue because the GOP refuse to get their house in order.
AFZ
Does anyone still do deprogramming of (former) cult members? A whole lot of GOP hierarchy members and Congress critters could use a nice, long stay.
As could the rioters, the Q-Anon folks, and T's followers.
What a mess.
:votive:
The House voted to dismiss her from her committees. AIUI, 10-12 Republicans and all the Democrats voted that way.
From the Graun:
I reiterate: she doesn't actually believe the things she says. It's simply a performance to gain influence, reputation, money and votes.
11 Republicans voted to deny her committee memberships.
No. She does believe them. Her denial is "simply a performance to gain influence, reputation, money and votes."
The woman is utterly despicable. She doesn't belong in government.
Madame is off to work today, so I walked alone this morning. Wondering if the Republican powers-that-be have written-off the 2024 elections and are allowing MTG a pretty free run now in the hope that by 2028 she'll have written herself off?
But I think it's very unlikely they've written anything off - four years seems like an eternity in politics these days. The Senate is balanced on a knife's edge, and they made deep inroads into the Democratic majority in the House. The next congressional elections are in 2022 and off-year elections typically favor the party that lost the last presidential election, so they have reason to hope they can take back one or both houses, frustrate Biden's agenda, and run against his failure to keep his promises in 2024.
Nope. My brain hurts. I only got as far as a snappy title.
She probably has no more than 40% or so of her district actually agreeing with her, given the Republican primary results, but her district is so deep red (~75%) that even if the Democratic candidate had not had to withdraw it's unlikely anyone could have beaten the knee-jerk GOP vote.
What worries me is exactly that: She needs to recant. Everything. CNN (et al) is doing a good job digging up her sins past and present. However, she is unlikely to ever go on CNN. I would like to see her interviewed and filmed, and asked about each and every single weirdness, lie and abomniation she's ever spouted, with place, date and time, and her current position on this - without her having the chance to run away.
She has threatened with violence not just Pelosi, but also a number of other Democrats, some of whom are now forced to sit and work in the same House as her. This is inacceptable.
Even if you had compulsory voting, the agreement of 40% of the district is an excellent start. With voting optional, that may well be enough to be elected.
Ummm...are you saying it's good she was elected? That it would be good for her to be re-elected? That's the only sense I can make of your "Even if" post.
Anderson Cooper recently interviewed an ex-Q-Anon man. It turned out that he and others believed that AC and others "ate babies"--or at least drank their blood. He no longer believes that, and apologized to AC. The accusations against him were a surprise to AC.
I haven't watched the video, but here it is (CNN).
Here's the Independent's article:
"Former QAnon follower apologises to Anderson Cooper for believing he ate babies. QAnon conspiracies include belief CNN anchor is a ‘robot’".
To paraphrase Ariel in "The Tempest", "O strange, new world that has such creatures in it".
In "The Matrix", Neo has a choice of the Blue Pill, which lets him continue to see the illusory reality, or the Red Pill, which shows him the true, dystopian reality. I think MTG is using a multi-colored paisley horse pill, psychdelic in nature, plus hypodermic drugs of an unknown nature. And she washes it all down with a proprietary mix of coffee, alcohol, guarana, ayahuasca, and guano. Legal note: NOT accusing her of actually doing that, just speculating on possible causes for her behavior.
Are we having fun yet?
Far from saying that it was good that she was elected, or would be re-elected, but rather that on the 40% figure for support for her opinions etc from voters, the result is not surprising especially given that voting is optional.
Thank GOD!!! Only 40% of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
I wouldn't be so quick to make that assumption. The underlying premise is that the views she espouses are popular and have a sizeable constituency (at least within her district) to explain why the politician is trying to curry favor in this way. It seems fairly obvious that if a set of ideas does actually have a widespread following that a true believer could successfully run for office.
I came across variants of this when it came to explaining why certain politicians weren't really racist, merely using racism to gain popularity. It didn't seems particularly convincing then either.
I can't find the reference now, but at least one of the House Democrats made a statement blaming Republicans for making the whole House deal with this issue. Kevin McCarthy was willing to strip Steve King of committee assignments by acting within his prerogatives as Republican House leader, but with Greene it took the House as a whole acting.
House elections in 2022 will largely be determined by the state of the American economy in 2022. Hence the Democratic support for and Republican opposition to a large COVID relief package.
The Senate race will be interesting in 2022. Thirty-four seats are due for election, absent death or resignation of Senators between now and then. Twenty are currently held by Republican and fourteen have Democratic incumbents. Three of the Republican Senators who would otherwise be up for re-election have announced their retirement: Burr (North Carolina), Portman (Ohio), and Toomey (Pennsylvania). These are all nominally swingable states so the lack of an incumbent in any of them will be interesting. No Democratic Senators up for re-election in 2022 have announced their retirement yet. The most vulnerable Democratic Senators in 2022 are probably Warnock (Georgia) and Kelly (Arizona), who both won special elections in 2020 in swing states. The first re-election campaign is always the hardest, and they'll only have two years worth of accomplishments to show the folks back home.
No, all you can say is that 40% of the Republicans in her district could be neo-fascist. If you extend that out to all Americans it would only mean that 12% of all Americans have neo-fascist leanings. That is still a big number (about 30 million people) but far different than 120 million people.
That's not how I read @Arethosemyfeet.
Why did he blame the Republicans? What happened showed that a vote of the whole House in effect condemned her and her stance. I'd say that that was worthwhile.
Gramps, can you explain your mathematics please?
Some in her party would not call her into line, so we took it to Congress and she was removed by a vote of the whole House.
Then you need to reread what Arethosemyfeet said.
In the Georgia Republican primary, only registered members of the Republican party in her district can vote. While Greene's district is predominately Republican, nationwide the Republican party makes up less than 1/3 of the voters in the United States. Therefore 40% of the Republican party would be 12% of the nations' voters. This is similar to an ABC Report that says 1 in 10 Americans feel it is okay to harbor Nazi beliefs.
But if you are a white Republican voter, you would just hate to vote Democrat, especially if the Democrat was endorsed by Stacy Abrams.
I'd guess she "primaried" somebody more reasonable and rational than herself and won the vote by being kooky and intransigent.
This, to me, is one of the more worrying aspects of the US federal elections of 2016 and 2020 -- the apparent cynicism with which a scarily large chunk of Americans seem to have cast "oh-what-the-hell" ballots in culpable collaboration with the True Loony Believers.
Not 40% of Republicans, 40% of her district based on 57% support in the primary run-off and ~75% voting Republican in that district normally.
How is that a "No" to what I said?
"Primaried" usually refers to challenging an incumbent in the primary, does it not?
OK, Thank GOD!!! Only 12%, 1:8 of Americans are neo-fascist lunatics.
{Sweetly.}
Do we really want to get into a contest over what country has how many of what kind of lunatics...?
I'm sure we've got the same if not worse, Sweetie, but they don't tend to end up so much in Parliament. Or know better than to say what they think.
They are much more subtle in their methods of keeping the poor poor and the very rich ... ... very rich.
It’s easier to purge the brash, obvious and stupid lunatics like MTG.
From your mouth to God's ear.
It took 4 years to purge DJT. But yes, our parasites are more evolved.
But at least this stupid evil lying bitch shot herself in the mouth.
Okay then I didn't know what the word meant, I guess.
As @Dave W points out, it's usually the job of the parties to discipline rogue members (except in instances of actual criminality). This fulfills a couple of purposes. It fosters party discipline, illustrating what kind of behaviors are outside the lines. It prevents the perception that maintaining standards is a form of partisan payback. And it allows the House to concentrate on doing its job. The complaint here is that by failing to enforce discipline within their caucus Republicans have failed in all three ways, forcing the House as a whole to divert time and energy from legislating to maintaining the standards that the Republican House caucus should be able to maintain itself.
Not quite. She started off running for the seat in Georgia's 6th Congressional District in 2020 and then switched over to the 14th when the Republican incumbent there announced he wasn't running for re-election. She's got family money. Not a huge amount, but enough to make that kind of district shopping available to her.
Ah, a carpetbagger.