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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,632 posts)
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 02:42 PM Apr 9

In a roid rage fit, GOP's Marjorie Traitor Greene slams Johnson with speakership under threat

The House is back in session Tuesday after a two-week-long Easter recess, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is ratcheting up her attacks on Speaker Mike Johnson in a letter to her Republican colleagues on Tuesday in an effort to convince them to join her call to remove him from the House's top job.

The Georgia Republican's five-page letter outlines the way she believes Johnson is failing the party including his "total surrender to" Democrats and their agenda and his shift away from Republican ideals when it comes to providing aid to Ukraine.

"I will not tolerate our elected Republican Speaker Mike Johnson serving the Democrats and the Biden administration and helping them achieve their policies that are destroying our country. He is throwing our razor-thin majority into chaos by not serving his own GOP conference that elected him," Greene wrote in the letter.

"With so much at stake for our future and the future of our children, I will not tolerate this type of 'leadership,'" Greene later wrote in the letter. "This has been a complete and total surrender to, if not complete and total lockstep with, the Democrats' agenda that has angered our Republican base so much and given them very little reason to vote for a Republican House majority."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-returns-johnsons-speakership-under-090011899.html

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Drum

(9,226 posts)
1. She doesn't really strike me as a person with enough words for a five-page letter.
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 02:45 PM
Apr 9

Then again, there seems to be a lot of repetition—“I will not tolerate…”

bluesbassman

(19,387 posts)
9. They should make her Speaker.
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 03:43 PM
Apr 9

She would be such an unmitigated disaster that not only would the GOP lose the House in November, they would not get it back for at least twenty years.

keithbvadu2

(37,130 posts)
11. Just think how much helpful advice she would get from Johnson and McCarthy with her knives in their backs.
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 04:03 PM
Apr 9

When Kevin15 finally got MTG's endorsement...

Ping Tung

(835 posts)
10. It is highly entertaining to watch the MAGAs stab each other over purity.
Tue Apr 9, 2024, 03:44 PM
Apr 9

Are they calling each other "Poopie Head" yet?

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