At at least Marjorie Taylor Greene does not have to put time at the end of the scene during lengthy committee hearings.
House Democrats voted to start her from her committee assignments in an act they will certainly regret, perhaps as soon as January 2023.
If the majority of members of the opposition party can stay away from committees based on infectious comments, it’s not clear why the IDP will ever have Maxine Waters serve on any committee if it controls the chamber, or why it will never do so again. .
Kicking off Greene will be remembered as another turning point in the constant unraveling of institutional norms on Capitol Hill.
That said, we believe the Republicans should take matters into their own hands and Greene should refuse her instructions from the committee to draw a line against malicious insanity in their own ranks.
That the Democrats had a gun to his head with the threat to have a say on the Greene committee probably made it harder for minority leader Kevin McCarthy to act on his own. He did seek an agreement with the Democrats to remove her from the House Committee on Education and Labor and the Budget Committee and instead refer her to the Small Business Committee.
When the Democrats did not bite, McCarthy again condemned her comments from the past and expressed a regret of regret at her in an internal GOP meeting earlier this week that she repeated on the House floor on Thursday. Her statement does not sound like sincerity, but it is better than nothing, even if she immediately holds a belligerent press conference where she says: ‘I’m fine with kicking off committees, because it will waste my time. . ”
We certainly did not hear the last of her.