House Exiles Marjorie Taylor Greene From Panels, as Republicans Rally Around Her

T. A. Gardner said:
She's a whack-a-doodle, but I totally disagree with the Democrats removing her from her committees. It is up to her constituency to decide if she's not who they want in Congress, not the opposition party in Washington.

The danger here is: Who is next? Will the Democrats target other House members for such expulsion based on speech they don't like? There's nothing to stop the Democrats from whipping up a media frenzy against some other Republican(s) they don't like then holding a simple majority vote to kick them too off committees. It's a tyranny of the the mob majority.
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Partially correct. She has a right to hold her office, but she has no rights to be on any committees. As you said, she's a wackadoodle. Better to not let her close to anything than can harm everyone outside of her district.
 
Dems rallying around all their criminals and misfits...always...all the time. Ted Kennedy, Bob Menendez, Alcee Hastings, Diane Feinstein, Mad Max Waters, Ilhan Omar, Chm. Jao............
 
Stretch said:
Dems rallying around all their criminals and misfits...always...all the time. Ted Kennedy, Bob Menendez, Alcee Hastings, Diane Feinstein, Mad Max Waters, Ilhan Omar, Chm. Jao............
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Yeah. Make the GOP full of angels. ;)
 
BartenderElite said:
There's a line. I know it when I see it.

Are you suggesting their should be NO standards at all?

And it's not up to me. It's up to the entity she belongs to. Like it is with any business or organization.
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Short of criminal intent or clear harm to the public, no there shouldn't be any standard. If the public wants to elect people with crazy ideas then so be it. Let the public deal with the problem.
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Partially correct. She has a right to hold her office, but she has no rights to be on any committees. As you said, she's a wackadoodle. Better to not let her close to anything than can harm everyone outside of her district.
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Committees are an integral and extremely important part of how Congress works. Without her being on committees she is unable to introduce legislation, have any say on its crafting, and is basically cut out of the legislative process beyond voting on something that comes to the floor. It is in effect stripping her of any ability to influence legislation. That's wrong.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Committees are an integral and extremely important part of how Congress works. Without her being on committees she is unable to introduce legislation, have any say on its crafting, and is basically cut out of the legislative process beyond voting on something that comes to the floor. It is in effect stripping her of any ability to influence legislation. That's wrong.
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Tough luck.
 
BidenPresident said:
Grene is still a Congressperson from Georgia.
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Alcee Hastings is a member of the House and he was impeached and convicted as a federal judge by the House and Senate before being elected to the House. He's currently vice chair of the Rules committee. He has had several sexual harassment suits filed against him that he settled out of court, one for a reported $220,000. He's made numerous racist comments over the years. In the 2000 Bush - Gore election he tried similar tactics to Trump to keep Bush from getting elected by the electoral college.

He's still on committees...
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Ah, so now it's a case of We have the political power so fuck you! How totalitarian and fascist of you.
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It's called, "democracy." A foreign concept to you. By the way, democracy is not mob rule. Just because the mob elected her does not mean the House has to give her special assignments.
 
Althea said:
You're parroting the party talking points. She's threatened Pelosi and others. She doesn't belong in Congress at all, but Democrats have no control over that. It wouldn't surprise me to find that she was complicit in the Jan. 6 terror attack on the Capitol.
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Want a list of the Democrats that made threats against Trump...?

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The Democrats have more baggage than JFK airport. It's all too easy to point out the hypocrisy here.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Committees are an integral and extremely important part of how Congress works. Without her being on committees she is unable to introduce legislation, have any say on its crafting, and is basically cut out of the legislative process beyond voting on something that comes to the floor. It is in effect stripping her of any ability to influence legislation. That's wrong.
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Are you claiming she has a right to be on one or all committees? According to you, Pelosi had no right to snub AOC and give a plum Energy committee assignment to Kathy Rice.

According to you, AOC and her constituents are being robbed of their rights. I disagree. No one has a right to be on any committee.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...io-cortez-spot-house-energy-commerce-n1251640
Ocasio-Cortez passed over for Kathleen Rice on Energy and Commerce Committee
 
BidenPresident said:
It's called, "democracy." A foreign concept to you. By the way, democracy is not mob rule. Just because the mob elected her does not mean the House has to give her special assignments.
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Popular vote should not be the way we decide most stuff. It amounts to mob rule. It's like the old joke about three bears and a rabbit deciding what to have for dinner by majority vote...
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Are you claiming she has a right to be on one or all committees? According to you, Pelosi had no right to snub AOC and give a plum Energy committee assignment to Kathy Rice.

According to you, AOC and her constituents are being robbed of their rights. I disagree. No one has a right to be on any committee.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/co...io-cortez-spot-house-energy-commerce-n1251640
Ocasio-Cortez passed over for Kathleen Rice on Energy and Commerce Committee
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Every member gets committee assignments. Stripping her of all is almost unfounded and unheard of. This is particularly true that her offense was saying crazy stuff that the Democrats didn't like. AOC got committee assignments so the comparison doesn't hold. If Greene got undesirable committee assignments then there'd be no argument. That happens all the time. What doesn't is a member being barred from any assignments.
 
T. A. Gardner said:
Committees are an integral and extremely important part of how Congress works. Without her being on committees she is unable to introduce legislation, have any say on its crafting, and is basically cut out of the legislative process beyond voting on something that comes to the floor. It is in effect stripping her of any ability to influence legislation. That's wrong.
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Why is it wrong?

She doesn't have any inherent right to that.
 
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