11 Republicans side with Dems to remove Rep Greene from House committees
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GA Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene was forcably removed from all US House Committees today, as a rebuke of her QAnon statements and actions prior to her beginning her service in the House.
While her earlier comments - including threats to current-serving politicians - were abhorrent! She was eventually undone by her retisense to back down some of her "wacky" conspiracy theories. She, sadly, depended upon her Party Leadership to protect her - even when she openly repeated - just a day earlier - that she "had nothing to apologize for"... not even the threat to "assassinate Nancy Pelosi"!
Had she shown virtually any contrition, she likely would have survived this vote... but as it is, she is now easily the least effective legislator in the 435-member body, and will almost certainly face a primary challenger in 20-months or so when the 2022 election cycle ramps up...
It sets a bad precedent - the majority party interfering in committee assignments - but the Democrats have a point when they argue that no other serving member of the House has EVER made threats against other members -- and not been expelled for doing so!
As a Republican, I am saddened - yet again - at our Leadership's failure to reign-in these QAnon abominations.
Had I been asked to vote on this issue - as a Republican MoC - I would truly have been torn between my loyalty to my Party, and my loyalty to the institution of the House of Representatives. I believe more than 11 Republicans would have voted to rebuke her this way, but chickened out once it became clear she would be removed, and their votes wouldn't really matter.
Regardless of whether you are a Republican or Democrat, a liberal or conservative, a QAnon nutjob or an Antifa nutjob - it's a sad day in American History today....
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And yet, Ilhan Omar gets to be a massive anti-semite and nothing happens.
Sadly, the gutless swamp monsters in the RNC won't do the same to the DNC when they take back control.
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This is great stuff, there are a few patriotic Republicans left, they should be celebrated for their refusal to back down to mob threats on these matters.
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There you go on about "its not fair" again!
FIRST (and let's get this part over with fast):
- Ilhan Omar never, ever threatened to assassinate the Speaker of the House.
- Ilhan Omar never, ever tried to bring a loaded, concealed weapon onto the House Floor!
- Ilhan Omar never, ever suggested other members of the House should be "hunted down and killed as traitors" (an actual quote from Taylor-Greene's pre-campaign Twitter account.)
This wasn't done for traditional politics - this wasn't about her anti-abortion position, or her 2nd Amendment position, or her [insert political belief here] position - this was done because she went way over the line by threatening violence against her political opponents. That is why 11 Republicans voted in favor of the resolution to remove her from all committee assignenments!
Her absurd proclamations that school shootings weren't real - were staged for anti-gun activists or that 9/11 was faked ... were harmful to this nation!
- For the record, I was in Crystal City, VA on 9/11/2001 - teaching a class on Unix to adult students in a hotel just blocks from the Pentagon itself - many of those students had children in the Pentagon Day Care. It was a Tuesday - the first day of a 4-day class.
- I saw - with my own eyes - the destruction of the Pentagon (and, yes, the airplane that hit it).
- I don't remember hearing the explosions, but some of my students and others from the hotel the class was being presented in say they did. To be honest, there are elements of that day I just don't remember - call it trauma, I don't know... but i do know those parents were terrified
BUT LET'S GO BEYOND THAT - What if it was pure politics?
We (Republicans) have opened the floodgates of using hardball politics to get our way... and, as predicted, when the gavel was passed, and the opposition "took power", we are now going to have to live with the precedents we've set - and live through new ones as the Democrats play hard ball politics right back at us.
We (Republicans) are the ones who began the process of limiting (aka minimizing) the role and power of the filibuster in the ! Now we want to cry when Democrats use that same tactic against us?
Look, I may be a Conservative and a registered Republican - but facts are facts: we dug our own grave here!
IMHO: The Senate's filibuster rules should be rolled back to the y2k (2000) version! Or, the 1980's version (they're the same)! Or, the 1920's version (they're the same)!
HISTORY: The first real change to the filibuster came about 100 years ago, in 1917 - when they introduced Cloture - the ability to end debate with a 2/3 majority vote. The destruction of the filibuster started in 2005 (under Republicans)... the Democrats fired back in 2013 (eliminating the filibuster for Presidential Appointments, other than the Supreme Court). Rather than put things back, in 2017 the Republicans removed the exception for Supreme Court - disallowing a filibuster for any Presidential nomination.
Now the Democrats are in control again... will they restore the filibuster? Of course not! They have to get back at the Republicans!
IMHO: the desecration of the filibuster is destroying the Senate - making it more like the "raucous" House, and less like the "world's greatest deliberative body" it was designed to be.
But we (Republicans) can't go crying foul now, just because the shoe's on the other foot!
IMHO: We (Republicans) need to re-take the Senate (by winning elections, not by force!) - and do the right thing: use our majority power to re-establish the filibuster and give up some of that power - back to the minority party - and restore the Senate to the kind of deliberative, slow-moving, compromising legislative body it once was.
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The Republican party you want is the absolute cuck to the DNC and it looks like you got exactly what you guys want.
The DNC has no say in the way the RNC gives out committee seats, until now.
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Once again you take a single instance and blow it up into a generalization! Can you even post without hyperbole?
- An ant was a stow-away on the Apollo 12 mission to the moon - and now, according to your logic, all the ants are evacuating to the moon!
- Oh, it's not that! It's that NASA is planning to start polluting the Moon with transplant ants! That's the ticket! Yeah!
The Democrats didn't tell us who could serve on what committees. The said she cannot serve on any committee!
That you cannot see the difference is telling...
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Still not their right.
It's the RNC's right to decide who goes on what committee.
I do hope that the RNC acts just like the DNC has.
