The Home Oversight Committee introduced on Nov. 21, that Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will likely be heading a brand new subcommittee to work alongside the Division of Authorities Effectivity. DOGE is headed by Donald Trump’s new propaganda minister Elon Musk and billionaire weirdo Vivek Ramaswamy.
Greene’s ascendance to chairing her personal Home committee is an ideal encapsulation of the fail-upward mediocrity that the Republican Social gathering and Trump signify. Greene was stripped of her committee assignments in 2021 because of her historical past of unhinged conduct. After the Republican Social gathering retook a skinny majority within the Home, in 2023, and in a deal for her assist, then-speaker Kevin McCarthy gave Greene committee assignments.
Since that point Greene has finished what she’s at all times finished: Embarrass America and the Republican Social gathering together with her ignorance and vitriol. However extra importantly, she consistently embarrasses herself. Allow us to rely simply among the methods.
1. Greene’s first day again on committee she tries to make Jan. 6 about racism.
Greene returned to committee work in late January 2023. Greene used her particular powers of crapitude to try to flip a movement to reestablish the Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties right into a racist mess concerning the Jan. 6 riot.
2. Greene makes up a collection of information about “COVID cash.”
To start with of February, Greene was again at it, pushing her well-worn and debunked conspiracy theories about COVID-19. Throughout an trade with Gene L. Dodaro, comptroller common for the Authorities Accountability Workplace, Greene ranted about “COVID cash” going to “abortions” and “CRT,” and even claiming that the federal government gave an Illinois elementary college system $5.1 billion (with a B!) for “equity and diversity.” Dodaro, and the remainder of the sentient world was baffled—since none of these items have been even remotely true.
3. Greene spews vile anti-trans lies as a part of a pandemic conspiracy concept.
Greene put collectively an incomprehensible efficiency in March 2023, the place she weaved a bile-filled conspiracy concept that COVID, college closures, and social media created trans youngsters.
4. Greene is pressured to close up (no less than for a short while).
Greene was muzzled by the Republican chair of a committee the place she attacked Rep. Eric Swalwell ludicrously declaring he had “sexual relationship with a Chinese spy—and everyone knows it” which needed to be stricken from the report. Then she referred to as Homeland Safety Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar.” It included this particular trade:
5. Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls Greene a “bleach blond, bad built, butch body” after Greene bates and insults her.
In the identical month, Greene earned a righteous shellacking by Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett after Greene attacked Crockett’s look throughout a committee trade. Crockett advised late evening host Stephen Colbert the viral insult was impressed by her granny, who “used to call people ‘bad build.’”
6. Greene makes an attempt to make use of race and abortion to defend white supremacists.
Greene embarrassed herself but once more attempting to underplay white supremacist violence as a home downside throughout a committee assembly on home threats of violence. Her deadly flaw was in attempting to give you a gotcha query to get Amy Spitalnick, a senior adviser on extremism at Human Rights First and an individual with actual intelligence.
7. Greene doesn’t notice the FBI and Homeland Safety are two various things.
In November of final yr, throughout a heated trade with FBI Director Christopher Wray, Greene embarrassed herself once more by exposing the depth of her civic ignorance, attacking the FBI director for one thing she claimed the Division of Homeland Safety did.
8. Greene hijacks an vital pandemic preparedness listening to to threaten Dr. Fauci and spew conspiracy theories.
Every week after the 2024 election, Greene was again at it, sidetracking a pandemic preparedness committee listening to to rehash her conspiracy theories and demand Dr. Anthony Fauci and others be “prosecuted” by the “next attorney general” for “crimes against humanity.”
Whether or not Greene’s subcommittee will largely act as a propaganda train for Musk’s austerity insurance policies, or have an actual influence on the federal government stays to be seen. One factor is for certain: Greene will proceed to debase herself and the nation in her efforts.
