Poor, Poor Marjorie

Created
Thu, 09/11/2023 - 10:30
Updated
Thu, 09/11/2023 - 10:30
Nobody can stand her Marjorie Taylor Greene finds that she’s standing alone: With her claims about Jewish laser beams, attacks of school-shooting survivors, promotion of QAnon, and overall “I’ll tell YOU when I’ve had enough wine coolers” vibes, Marjorie Taylor Greene has never been a universally beloved figure in Washington. Still, for a time, she had a number of friends on the far-right side of Congress who were willing to put up with her. Now? Not so much! The Daily Beast reports that while the GOP’s three-week train wreck electing a House Speaker was an embarrassing stain on the entire party, one individual in particular “emerged from the drama with few friends and plenty of enemies”: the congresswoman from Georgia. She’s now persona non grata among a significant amount of Republicans thanks to the fact that: 1-She was kicked out of the House Freedom Caucus this summer.2-Kevin McCarthy, whom she aligned herself with earlier this year, is out of power.3-“GOP rank and file…already disliked her.”  Really, it’s just math. And that math was on display last week when Greene tried and failed—very badly!—to censure Democratic Representative Rashida Tlaib for the lawmaker’s pro-Palestinian comments. Per the Daily Beast: In response, Roy told The Hill: “Tell her to go chase so-called Jewish space lasers if she wants to spend time on that sort of thing.” And whereas some of her colleagues might have previously come to her defense, many have since suggested—some by saying outright—that she’s only hurting herself and her standing in Congress. “Childish in many ways,” Representative Troy Nehls, who has previously defended Greene, told the Daily…