Recently the firebrand from Georgia has made some out of context comments about her GOP colleagues….but recently she made one that gave me a chuckle.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is publicly clashing with GOP leadership again—this time taking aim at what she calls a pattern of “weak” Republican men in Congress. Greene, who’s lately been sparring with House Speaker Mike Johnson over the handling of the government shutdown, accuses him and other male colleagues of marginalizing the party’s more forceful women, per the Washington Post. She argues that while President Trump has promoted women to top cabinet positions, GOP women in the House are sidelined. Currently only one Republican woman chairs a committee, compared to five Democratic women in top committee positions.
Greene, who won her Georgia district by criticizing Republicans, is no stranger to intra-party fighting. She previously tried and failed to oust Johnson from the speaker’s chair and had a stormy relationship with former Speaker Kevin McCarthy until they reconciled. Her campaign against House leadership has seen her break with Johnson on high-profile issues, including supporting Democratic efforts to extend health care subsidies and pushing for the release of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein. Now, she’s arguing Johnson has pushed Republican women to the side, expanding on an argument she made earlier.
House GOP Conference Chair Rep. Lisa McClain pushed back, saying Johnson has treated women fairly and promoted members based on merit. Greene, however, maintains that women like herself and Rep. Elise Stefanik are too often excluded from real influence, chalking it up to intimidation or jealousy. “Weak” Republican men are trying “to marginalize the strong Republican women that actually want to do something,” she says. She also suggests GOP women—like those who’ve signed on to the discharge petition related to the Epstein files—are more willing to sustain pressure from the president or Johnson. Male colleagues “don’t want to get yelled at,” she says.
She has stated the obvious!
Where the Hell has she been? the GOP has been that way for as long as I can remember.
With all her epiphanies I just wonder where the Hell she has been for all those years?
What will she stumble upon next?
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
I find it incredible that MTG has become the voice of sensible argument and strong protest in the GOP. Something MUST have happened to her brain!
Best wishes, Pete.
If she’s the sensible one now, we are ALL in trouble. Then again, maybe the Dems could wrestle the Repubs to the ground now…
Pete, I agree – and her sensibility in this regard is great to see, but she has so many wrong ways of thinking from her past and present that I remain suspicious of her true motives. What a despicable government we have here right now: extremes on the left and right have hijacked the process from the moderate willing to compromise middle, which exists – but the extremes scream so loudly – and our complicit media loves screaming – so it obscures this fact.
Or maybe there is a hole in the dimensional drift…..LOL chuq
I find this MTG thing fascinating. Not just her apparent turning around on Trump’s policies, but even more fascinating is that the GOP doesn’t seem to be retaliating against her for it. Before now if any of them dared to break ranks and do anything against what turmp wanted, they retaliated, at least verbally if nothing else. They responded with threats of cutting off party funding, running a party backed candidate against them in the next election, removed them from committees, etc.
But they haven’t been going after her. At least not as viciously as they have gone after others in the party who’ve tried to break away from Trump. They haven’t circled the wagons, so to speak and retaliated against her hints at a lot of things going on behind the scenes.
First of course is Johnson. Most of the party hates Johnson. He is ultimately a whining, sniveling, lying little coward who only ended up as Speaker because they couldn’t get anyone else to do the job and he was willing to kiss enough asses to gain some traction. He’s angered enough people by this point that he’s right on the brink of being booted out as Speaker of the House. I think the only reason he’s still hanging on is because they couldn’t put together enough votes on their side of the aisle to elect a new Speaker.
Second point is, of course, that the only person they hate more than Johnson is Trump himself. Make no mistake about it. Despite all of the ass kissing and sucking up and publicly worshipping the ground he walks on, they absolutely loathe the man. The only reason they’ve been backing him is because buy doing so they’ve been able to push forward their own personal agendas. They’ve believed that his little personality cult. MAGA, is too strong for them. But Trump is not all powerful and his increasingly erratic behavior and bizarre policies and insane tariffs are alienating a hell of a lot of very powerful people.
And that alienation is taking its toll. In places like Wisconsin where the GOP has held the state legislature for ages, according to current polling there is now a significant chance that they will lose control of the state senate in the next election despite the fact Wisconsin is one of the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country. Despite the backing of of people like Musk who literally tried to buy the state supreme court election, Wisconsin has elected two liberal justices in a row despite everything they could do and the liberals now have a comfortable majority on the state supreme court. And also despite everything the GOP could do Wisconsin elected democrats to the executive branch of state government from the governor all the way down the line in the last two elections.
They’re terrified that in the next election they’re going to lose the House of Representatives and perhaps even the Senate. Thanks almost entirely to Trump. I think it’s entirely possible we’re going to see more people in the party begin to push back against Trump because some of them are scared that his extremist agenda could very well mean they lose their jobs.
I have wondered as well about here and the party GOP….2026 will be an election for the history books I think….chuq