{"id":175502,"date":"2021-02-03T19:41:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T00:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/03\/and-the-crazy-gets-the-republican-party-sanction\/"},"modified":"2021-02-03T19:41:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T00:41:00","slug":"and-the-crazy-gets-the-republican-party-sanction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2021\/02\/03\/and-the-crazy-gets-the-republican-party-sanction\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Crazy Gets the Republican Party Sanction"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, the Republican House Caucus has refused to take actions against Marjorie Taylor Greene for posting death threats to other members of congress<\/a>, AND<\/b> asserting that Jewish Space Lasers\u2122 started the California wild fires, AND<\/b> asserting that the Sandy Hook Elementary and  Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings were frauds promulgated by “crisis actors”, AND<\/b> the whole pedophile lizard alien cannibal thing.<\/p>\n

This means that the whole House will be voting to strip her of her committee assignments tomorrow.<\/p>\n

The flip side is that the Republican Caucus did not remove Liz Cheney as their #3 for voting to impeach Trump, which I’ll call neutral because any good news for a Cheney is simply not good news ever:<\/p>\n

House Republicans voted to keep Rep. Liz Cheney in party leadership despite her harsh criticism of former President Donald Trump<\/a>, while declining to punish a Trump loyalist who made comments embracing conspiracy theories and political violence. <\/p>\n

After a dizzying week of recriminations, both Ms. Cheney, of Wyoming, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R., Ga.) remained within the fold of the House GOP, highlighting Republicans\u2019 efforts at stitching together a still-fractious party. <\/p>\n

Facing Democrats\u2019 demands that Mrs. Greene be stripped of her committee assignments, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) condemned her comments but declined to take further steps. With no action from Republicans, Democrats scheduled a full House vote Thursday to remove Mrs. Greene from the education and budget committees. <\/p>\n

\u201cPast comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference,\u201d Mr. McCarthy said. He said that he stressed in a private meeting with Mrs. Greene on Tuesday night that she must now hold herself to a higher standard as an elected official. He also said that she apologized for her comments during Wednesday\u2019s closed-door party meeting. <\/p>\n

At that same gathering, Ms. Cheney defeated a motion from Mr. Trump\u2019s allies to oust her as House GOP conference chairwoman in a 145-61 vote, conducted by secret ballot after hours of intense debate. <\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

Mr. McCarthy\u2019s decision to leave Mrs. Greene on committees shifts some of the political heat to Democrats, who will now try to remove her. But it also opens up Mr. McCarthy to frustration among some House Republicans that he hasn\u2019t done more to manage the fallout over Mrs. Greene. Thursday\u2019s vote could also put some House GOP lawmakers in a difficult spot in deciding whether to vote to protect Mrs. Greene from Democratic attempts to punish her, a stance that could be off-putting to donors and voters skeptical of both her and Mr. Trump.
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To quote Napoleon, “Never stop your enemy from stepping on his own dick,” I guess.  (It’s a loose translation from the original French) <\/p>\n

 Still, this is an unbelievable clusterf%$#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, the Republican House Caucus has refused to take actions against Marjorie Taylor Greene for posting death threats to other members of congress, AND asserting that Jewish Space Lasers\u2122 started the California wild fires, AND asserting that the Sandy Hook Elementary and  Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shootings were frauds promulgated by “crisis actors”, AND …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,581,578,589,586,374],"class_list":["post-175502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-conspiracy","tag-incompetence","tag-insane","tag-insurrection","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}