Posted on 02/06/2021 9:57:05 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Representative Mike Rogers (R-AL), the ranking Republican member on the House Armed Services Committee, says Democrats were setting a precedent by expelling controversial freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) from her assigned congressional committees.
During an interview that aired Friday on Mobile, AL radio FM Talk 106.5, Rogers explained there were plusses to Democrats spending time on Greene and impeachment. According to the Alabama GOP lawmaker, if Democrats continued to pursue Greene and former President Donald Trump, they were not passing legislation.
“You just described why I’m not that unhappy about what they’re doing,” he said. “I hope this impeachment trial in the Senate lasts three months. If they’re spending two or three months on an impeachment trial, they’re not passing bills into law. I’ve been doing this a long time. The further you go into an election cycle, the dimmer the chances of you passing meaningful legislation are happening. If you want to get big things done, you better do it in the first three or four months of a two-year cycle because big things don’t happen that closer that election gets to you. I want them to spend a lot of time on silly stuff because that means they’re not passing bills.”
Rogers said when Republicans eventually regained control of the U.S. House of Representatives, which is a strong possibility after the 2022 midterm elections, a GOP majority could pursue similar actions against Democrat House members imposed on Greene.
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But is a ‘tit for a tat’ the way we are supposed to be?
Remember the Ds brought ‘charges’ against W on a regular basis so as to impeach him (payback for WJC??) but it never really moved.
Not until the ‘outsider’ PDJT got in office was there some kind of ‘unity’ in government because BOTH sides ‘feared’ what he may do, so all the time was wasted being childish.
Shouldn’t the state of Georgia be able to have some kind of retaliation as to not being truly represented in Congress?
Isn’t the expulsion of a Ga rep tantamount to telling Georgia their sovereignty is worthless?
If they are going to shun someone for statements made while not in office shouldn’t they be sanctioning sitting Reps for off the wall comments?
Oh, good thing I(WE) didn’t collectively hold our breath in anticipation of the list of Members who used the Sexual Abuse slush fund....
BS... they didn’t even stand up to Cheney.
When the gopE is in the majority. Uh, okee dokee then. LOL!
The word is that if anyone else tries to do what Trump did, they would also be “45’d” …
(Actually, MTG has more “nuts” then most of the men in the GOP carcass, -er, Caucus ;-)
Her approval rating is ghastly. Money won’t change that. She’d have to have a large divided field of candidates where she wins with 20% of the vote and the 80% split amongst the others (since there is no runoff in the state primaries). That’s not happening. She’s been repudiated by the state party, too. You don’t come back from that.
If she has an ounce of sense left, she’d announce her retirement.
Yes, democrats got the bigger nuts.
They are always pushing the envelop.
I appreciate what you’re saying but the GOP will pull out all the stops to save her because she’s from party “royalty”. And she’s a reliable Swamp creature who can be counted on to fight against the populists.
The party propagandists will put out some slick videos and ads for her that make her look like she’s fighting for her state every minute of the day. They will also paint her opponents as lightweights with zero experience and all manner of personal shortcomings. The usual political hit jobs on steroids.
Allowing a high profile person like Cheney to be defeated bigly would be a blow to the party’s image. The GOP (and big money) will do everything it can to defend her seat.
You may be right but Republican voters are pretty gullible. We’ll see.
If she has an ounce of sense left, she’d announce her retirement.
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She said today that she is not going to resign and is actually doubling down on her position. She obviously cares less what her voters think and seems to be confident she can bamboozle them again. Republican voters are pretty naive so who knows, she might be pull it off.
The national party might, but the state party has already spoken with their repudiation of her. She could run into a burning house at this point and save a boatload of Trump supporters from certain death and it wouldn’t salvage her reelection. She is done.
As an aside, I think when it seeps into her head just how massively unpopular she is, she may simply announce her retirement. This happened before. When she floated her name in 2014 as a “serious” candidate to challenge then-Sen. Mike Enzi (claiming she was “more Conservative”, which we debunked then as absurd) and polling indicated she would lose, she then decided not to run. I cannot see her wanting to risk absolute humiliation by what will be a massive landslide loss next year.
I think when it seeps into her head just how massively unpopular she is, she may simply announce her retirement.
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Agree. That is a definite possibility since politicians can suddenly reverse course whenever its convenient or they run out of options. But if she does that the party won’t abandon one of its fellow Swampers. They’ll find a way to somehow salvage her career (or what’s left of it).
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