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Dulcinea

(6,661 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 04:16 AM Apr 24

Marjorie Taylor Greene's crusade fails to dislodge Johnson as House speaker

(Atlanta Journal-Constitution) For weeks, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene promised that if the House approved a package of military aid for Ukraine, she would rally fellow Republicans to get rid of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

But as $95 billion in aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan was receiving strong bipartisan support Tuesday in the Senate, the congresswoman from Rome had little to show for her attacks on GOP leaders, even as she continued her calls for Johnson’s resignation.
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As senators returned Tuesday to vote on the aid bills, it was obvious just how isolated Greene is inside her own party

“She’s a total waste of time,” U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., told CNN, as GOP senators stood by the House speaker’s decision to allow a vote on aid for Ukraine.

https://www.ajc.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greenes-crusade-fails-to-dislodge-johnson-as-house-speaker/2HYXOVI5WFH3BEIGN6XHZWHYUY/

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's crusade fails to dislodge Johnson as House speaker (Original Post) Dulcinea Apr 24 OP
Everything must be "baffling" to her underpants Apr 24 #1
Do the people in her district understand that "She's a total waste of time"? Hermit-The-Prog Apr 24 #2
Marge lives in her own reality. Irish_Dem Apr 24 #3
She "festers" in her own reality. Martin68 Apr 24 #4
She is a very troubled woman. Irish_Dem Apr 24 #5
STFU Moscow Madge and go away! kimbutgar Apr 24 #6
I hope this apparent isolation of her taking place in the GOP gets the message to her constituents to vote her out. ificandream Apr 24 #7

underpants

(182,877 posts)
1. Everything must be "baffling" to her
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 06:39 AM
Apr 24

“It’s baffling hearing the establishment complain that it’s too much drama, too hard and too risky to go through another speaker race,” Greene said.

ificandream

(9,387 posts)
7. I hope this apparent isolation of her taking place in the GOP gets the message to her constituents to vote her out.
Wed Apr 24, 2024, 02:28 PM
Apr 24
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