Greene has never been one to shy away from an online battle. It’s part of the reason she has gained such MAGA infamy. But Greene’s fellow GOP members, many of whom once considered themselves her ally, suggested to The Daily Beast that her antics are only making her standing in Congress weaker.
Marjorie Taylor Greene Shows Congress How to Lose Friends and Not Influence People
As House Republicans try to move past the rifts demonstrated during their three-week speakership quagmire, one person has emerged from the drama with few friends and plenty of enemies: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).
Greene was a close ally of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). And with McCarthy out of power—and Greene largely ostracized from her former friends in the House Freedom Caucus, as well as the GOP rank and file who already disliked her—there aren’t many House Republicans standing with the conservative Facebook shock jock-turned-congresswoman.
Greene’s diminished status in the GOP conference was on full display last week as she introduced a resolution to chastise Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) for her pro-Palestinian rhetoric, and lost the vote badly.
Twenty-three Republicans broke with Greene on her resolution to censure Tlaib, even though the Democratic congresswoman has repeatedly put her foot in her mouth over the war in the Gaza Strip.
And those 23 Republicans breaking with Greene—a firebrand conservative who is perhaps the id of the MAGA movement in Congress and has Donald Trump on speed dial—is just the latest evidence that GOP members are neither fearing nor loving Marjorie Taylor Greene.
That point was further illustrated after the vote, when Greene took to Twitter to shame the Republicans who voted against her censure resolution.
“You voted to kick me out of the freedom caucus, but keep CNN wannabe Ken Buck and vaping groping Lauren Boebert and you voted with the Democrats to protect Terrorist Tlaib,” Greene wrote, taking aim at Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX). “You hate Trump, certified Biden’s election, and could care less about J6 defendants being persecuted.”
Rather than just letting her shot go, Roy responded by telling a reporter from The Hill: “Tell her to focus on chasing so-called Jewish space lasers if she wishes to spend her time on such matters.”
That didn’t go over well with Greene.
“Oh shut up Colonel Sanders, you’re not even from Texas, more like the DMV,” she replied. . .
Another Republican lawmaker, who was once a Greene ally, put it far more bluntly.
“She’s creating her own enemies through unprovoked, unwarned, and unsubstantiated attacks,” this GOP lawmaker said. “Embarrassing herself through launching attacks she later has to retract due to their inaccuracies.”
When that Republican lawmaker confronted Greene after the list of 23 was blasted out on her X page, this source said, “she responded viscerally.”
Yet another Republican lawmaker who was once close to Greene agreed that she’s losing friends.
“There is no one I have heard from, dozens of members, who are happy with her, that trust her [or] confide in her,” this Republican lawmaker said.
“She’s continually seeking attention,” this GOP member said, “building herself up while tearing others down. I have cut ties completely.”
Some Republicans tried to minimize the feud. Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), ever one to find the folksy, bright side of any issue, compared the disagreement between Greene and Roy to a “fight at Christmastime or Thanksgiving.”
“You know, family at the table,” Burchett said. “You try to not set the two together.”
But other close Trump allies acknowledged that Greene was doing herself no favors. . .
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