(Kevin Whiteley, Headline USA) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., slammed weak-willed congressional colleagues last week in a nearly 20-minute monologue hammering the GOP caucus for its lack of cohesion.
Greene noted the legislative branch’s current “17% approval rating,” saying her GOP colleagues “never hold the line,” “never fight back” and “never hold anyone accountable.”
By contrast, the Georgia lawmaker said, “Democrats stick together. They band together. And they never back down.”
Greene’s rant was rooted in recent efforts by herself and fellow GOP lawmakers to censure leftist Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., for her anti-Semitic behavior and actions related to the Israel–Hamas conflict.
The move ultimately failed after 23 Republicans sided with Democrats to table the resolution to censure Tlaib—a 222–186 tally (13 Republicans did not vote).
READ: My resolution to CENSURE Rashida Tlaib https://t.co/b0dj8iFCBP pic.twitter.com/OIuqqoTETc
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 6, 2023
Tlaib was subsequently censured in a Tuesday-evening effort (234–188–4), according to ZeroHedge.
Prior to that vote, however, Greene vented her frustration regarding the 23 GOP defectors in an interview with the Daily Caller published Tuesday morning.
“I ran for Congress because I was one of those people who was constantly disappointed and disgusted with Republicans in Congress—and I find myself in the same position, and I am a Republican member of Congress,” she said.
“We had 23 Republicans that voted with the Democrats to table my resolution because they claimed they were protecting what she [Tlaib] did to leave freedom of speech, which is jaw-dropping to me because I wasn’t silencing her freedom of speech,” Greene continued. “I wanted her censured for her speech.”
Greene, herself, was stripped of her committees in February 2021, in what was, at the time, an unprecedented move by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who claimed she was responsible for spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. Joining Democrats in support of that resolution were 11 Republicans, for a vote of 230-199.
Greene and her supporters at the time pointed to the double-standard related to Squad members like Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who had been criticized previously for promoting anti-Semitic tropes.
