- cross-posted to:
- conservative@lemm.ee
- cross-posted to:
- conservative@lemm.ee
The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and her sort-of-serious crusade against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.
The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet to attack Greene, invoking the “Moscow Marjorie” nickname coined by former representative Ken Buck.
Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had already taken aim at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz Peek calling her an “idiot” and saying she needs to “turn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.” This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene “Rep. Mayhem Taylor Greene” and accused her and her allies of being “most interested in TV hits and internet donors.”
Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra Saunders demanded to know “who put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?”
She hasn’t caught up to the fact that the game is now “try to claw back a semblence of seriousness for the party and hope the public forgets the last eight years of fully mask-off right-wing politics”.
That’s why Mike Johnson was brought in. He’s just as crazy as the rest of the far-right and is committed to their theocratic white nationalist policies, he just doesn’t get embroiled in twitter flame wars or say face-palm stupid stuff about jewish space lasers in public.
It’s interesting to see the GOP in retreat for once. I guess catching the car on abortion has been a painful lesson.
It’s nice that Trump’s delaying tactics mean that all his trials are now going on at the same time.
She hasn’t caught up to the fact that any protestations around money for Ukraine was just political theatre.
Any moment now, she’ll get a call from the Whips office, to remind her that once all the hootin and hollerin is done and it’s time to vote, the golden rule applies ;
you never vote against giving public money to party donors especially when they are from the US arms industry - which is where most of the money will end up.