Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) unexpectedly called on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to work with Democrats to avert a government shutdown.In a statement on Tuesday, Johnson said Republicans should support his plan to include the SAVE Act, legislation making it more difficult to vote, in a bi...
I think she woke up and realized a government shutdown right before an election caused by ineffectual republican leadership might hurt them in the down-ballot. Or we woke up Sunday on the next timeline because the earth exploded, and everyone died Saturday night. It’s been a crazy week and it’s only Tuesday.
It makes logical sense for a person to draw this conclusion, but MTG is famously an idiot, so that’s what’s baffling. What convinced her to change her tune?
The checks stopped clearing?
I mean yeah that’s sound political strategy, but you’re telling me MTG woke up and possessed the self reflection necessary to realize that?
I think it’s more believable that we all died.
Mitch McConnell made a statement of how stupid and damaging a shutdown would be for them. I would bet she is just listening to the wise turtle.
Basically this - conservatives are great at understanding problems, once the problems affect them personally
Tell that to the MAGA working class
Clarification : it has to impinge directly on their ego.
Me too lol
Can confirm, am dead.
I think this is absolutely the correct interpretation of this. Shutting down the government because repubs don’t want to play ball weeks before an election is only likely to hurt their chances.
Yeah but they do this every election year, and their supporters never care
They don’t until their social security checks stop flowing.
KEEP
GOVTOUT of MY MEDICAREAnother accidentally prudent statement.
I think you’re putting far to much faith in people willing to vote ®, their base would vote for them even as their families are sent to labor and death camps, while undecided and ‘independent’ voters will cast their ballot entirely on the last headline or 72 hours.
To me this reeks of Greene and other Magots realizing their wing of the party is imploding and will have to find a place in what ever GOP comes out the otherside of this election and the next midterm. Trump’s decline makes it pretty obvious they need someone else’s coattails to grab onto and rally around, so she’s trying to be the loudest voice in the room to be part of the new power structure if not the face of it.
It matters very little if I or any of us have faith in the republican voter base and rather it matters if the Republican leadership thinks it could matter to a significant enough portion of their base that they should avoid a shutdown.
Also, I find the rest of your comment to be quite insightful. I do think most of the Republican leadership are still all in on Trump, however I wouldn’t be surprised if there some back up plans in the works.
Or she’s jealous that someone else is fucking Trump so she’s causing problems.
This is exactly it. Shutdowns are not popular, if they shutdown the gov before the election it is going to cost them significant votes. They are already worried about the impact of Trump on down ballot candidates, a shutdown will almost certainly cost them seats. This is MTG expressing her panic because she realizes how stupid the GOP is behaving with an election about to happen.
What surprises me the most is that out of all the Republicans, it’s her that realizes how stupid this is.
Of course she does.
She’s terrified that if the Dems take the House back, she’ll lose her committee seats again. Like all small-government advocates, she wants power.
Ah, thank you. Considering what a shithole “safe”-ly red district she represents, I didn’t think she had any particular reason to care even with vote losses from a shutdown.
She was told to do this. There is no realization.
The Earth exploding and everyone waking up in a new timeline, having absorbed our prime selves, is somehow more likely now than it was 5 years ago.
Have we been absolved of Harambe?
No way she is involved in the Russian election interference case and is trying to pull a tim pool
I vote for this!