Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia didn’t get her way. And she’s not taking it well. In fact, she’s taking it out on her Republican colleagues.
Greene’s dubious effort to censure Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib for criticizing the Israeli government and supporting a pro-Palestinian protest failed this week. The Georgia representative sought to portray the peaceful protest as an “insurrection” and deployed her typical racism to cast Tlaib, who is Palestinian, as a “terrorist.” No Democrats voted for the resolution and nearly two dozen Republicans voted against it, as well.
One of those Republicans was Chip Roy of Texas, who said Greene’s misuse of the term “insurrection” was one major reason he voted against the censure. (He claimed Jan. 6 wasn’t an insurrection either, FYI.)
This led to a back-and-forth in the press and on social media that had Greene spending her day rattling off several incandescent tweets directed at Roy and the other Republicans who voted against her measure.
For example, this tweet claiming Republicans who voted against it “hide behind excuses with their white wigs on and quote the constitution.”
Our country is in the worst crisis in it’s history in every category and the Democrats are full blown communists and Republicans can’t even censure Rashida Tlaib.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 2, 2023
Conservatives on this list hide behind excuses with their white wigs on and quote the constitution.
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No surprise here that Greene would condemn people for upholding the Constitution.
Exhibit 2 is this chaotic tweet, featuring casual racism toward Tlaib with a special appearance by “vaping groping Lauren Boebert.”
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.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 2, 2023
You hate Trump, certified Biden’s election, and could care less about J6 defendants being persecuted. https://t.co/OIgUvndXek
No round-up would be complete without this tweet, in which she calls Roy “Colonel Sanders” (familiar to most as fast-food chain KFC’s chicken purveyor mascot) and questions his ties to Texas:
Oh shut up Colonel Sanders, you’re not even from Texas, more like the DMV.
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) November 2, 2023
Chip Roy’s career exist of working for politicians, working for campaigns for politicians, and being a politician himself.
Unity Party all the way!
Which is why you will never hold anyone accountable. https://t.co/RejH3yDqdM
Greene seems to be in a game of (ahem) chicken with Roy and the rest of her Republican opponents. Her social media barrage questioning their conservative bona fides — like her suggestion that such Republicans are “disgusting” to Americans — is trying to get them to blink and acquiesce to her extremist demands.
And Greene’s remarks have brought added pressure, unleashing a wave of invective online toward GOPers who helped to spike her resolution, with some people referring to them as Republicans in name only and others demanding they be primaried in their next election.
Between Greene’s tantrum and Rep. Jim Jordan’s bullying campaign for speaker last week, one wonders if Republicans haven’t fallen into the classic bind, “with friends like these, who needs enemies?” Greene is clearly not satisfied attacking Democrats; now she’s after fellow Republicans, too.
Ja’han Jones is an MS NOW opinion blogger. He previously wrote The ReidOut Blog.