Leader McCarthy's Statement on Rep. Taylor Greene:

[demmiblue]

Washington, D.C. – House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement:

“Past comments from and endorsed by Marjorie Taylor Greene on school shootings, political violence, and anti-Semitic conspiracy theories do not represent the values or beliefs of the House Republican Conference. I condemn those comments unequivocally. I condemned them in the past. I continue to condemn them today. This House condemned QAnon last Congress and continues to do so today.

“I made this clear to Marjorie when we met. I also made clear that as a member of Congress we have a responsibility to hold ourselves to a higher standard than how she presented herself as a private citizen. Her past comments now have much greater meaning. Marjorie recognized this in our conversation. I hold her to her word, as well as her actions going forward.

“I understand that Marjorie’s comments have caused deep wounds to many and as a result, I offered Majority Leader Hoyer a path to lower the temperature and address these concerns. Instead of coming together to do that, the Democrats are choosing to raise the temperature by taking the unprecedented step to further their partisan power grab regarding the committee assignments of the other party.

“While Democrats pursue a resolution on Congresswoman Greene, they continue to do nothing about Democrats serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee who have spread anti-Semitic tropes, Democrats on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security Committee compromised by Chinese spies, or the Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee who advocated for violence against public servants.

“In the end, this resolution continues to distract Congress, especially given the limited time that Speaker Pelosi and the Democrat leadership want the House to debate and work, on what it needs to focus on: getting Americans back to work, getting kids back to school, and providing vaccines to all Americans who need it.”

https://www.republicanleader.gov/leader-mccarthys-statement-rep-marjorie-taylor-greene/

Link to tweet

[Midnight Writer]

1. "the Democrats are choosing to raise the temperature"?

Asshole.

[SheltieLover]

4. Right!

[malaise]

6. Yes she threatens their lives but they are raising the temperature

Fuck these insurrectionists.

Kevin will never be Speaker

[Zoonart]

7. Yeah... we're the bad guys.

Asshole is right.

[secondwind]

2. So...................

basically he's not going to do anything about her committee assignments.....

[underpants]

3. I have composed this response to Rep. McCarthy

[dalton99a]

11. +1

[11 Bravo]

38. Can you wrap a little bit of barbed wire around that finger?

[underpants]

41. I only steal not produce.

[Atticus]

5. Well, that settles that! Now, aren't we all ashamed of ourselves for persecuting poor Marjie? nt

[gratuitous]

8. "Democrats are choosing to raise the temperature"

Oh really, Kevin? Explain to us all, then, how your statements in the very next paragraph lower the temperature? In case you didn't read your own bullshit (and who could blame you if you didn't), it says, "[Democrats] continue to do nothing about Democrats serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee who have spread anti-Semitic tropes, Democrats on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security Committee compromised by Chinese spies, or the Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee who advocated for violence against public servants."

I suggest a mild lubricant before you shove that self-serving hypocritical nonsense directly up your bottom.

[servermsh]

9. LOL. MTG hasn't apologized at all. Only doubled down.

I can't wait to see the vote tomorrow when she is booted off of her committees!

[ananda]

12. Same here!

Boy those Reeps are horrible!

[lindysalsagal]

10. Anyone know what he's talking about???

Democrats serving on the Foreign Affairs Committee who have spread anti-Semitic tropes,

Democrats on the House Intelligence and Homeland Security Committee compromised by Chinese spies, or the

Chairwoman of the House Financial Services Committee who advocated for violence against public servants.

?????

[Brother Buzz]

14. I believe he's pitching lies generated by the....

Right Wing Echo Machine

[demmiblue]

21. I don't know the first one, but he is referring to Swalwell and Waters in the second two.

Grasping for straws. Paper ones.

[lindysalsagal]

26. OK. I found this: She was a fund raiser, but he's not accused of wrong-doing.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/12/11/what-we-know-about-rep-eric-swalwells-ties-an-alleged-chinese-spy/

Speaker Pelosi already said she's not pursuing this:

Still, Swalwell maintains he’s being punished for speaking out by unnamed people in the Trump administration.

“If intelligence officials are trying to weaponize someone’s cooperation,” Swalwell told Politico, “they are essentially seeking to do what this person was not able to do, which is to try and discredit someone.”

It rings a little bit like Trump and his allies’ attacks on a nameless “deep state” in the government whenever they’re accused of wrongdoing.

How this is becoming a potential political issue: Well, Republicans are trying to make it one. House Republican leaders want Democrats to kick Swalwell off the Intelligence Committee. This has caught the attention of Trump, who shared attacks on Swalwell on Twitter. In doing so, though, he may have fed Swalwell’s narrative that Trump’s allies wanted to discredit him because he has been such a big critic of the president.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

28. My guess would be Omar. nt

[demmiblue]

35. Yeah, now I recollect the drama. n/t

[lindysalsagal]

30. From Politifact: She said "Knock off" to mean impeachment, not violence.

Rep. Maxine Waters did not say this exact quote, but available reports indicate she said something similar at a National Newspaper Publishers Association event in September 2018.

Waters made her remark — and many other remarks like this — in reference to impeachment. She was an early and vocal advocate for lawful removal of President Donald Trump using Congress’ power to impeach.

There is no evidence Waters was recommending violence.

OK. I think it's important to clarify and remove all doubt when we quote gop lies. Thanks.

[demmiblue]

31. That is not what they are referring to.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/25/politics/maxine-waters-trump-officials/index.html

[lindysalsagal]

32. OK. Thanks. It's about mexican kids separated at the border.

And he's a fool to touch the subject at all:

“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere. We’ve got to get the children connected to their parents,” Waters said at the Wilshire Federal Building, according to video of the event.

[demmiblue]

34. He's a fool, alright!

And infuriating.

[Caliman73]

36. The first one may be alluding to Rep Omar

She was accused of using an anti-Semitic trope hen she said, "all about the Benjamins" when criticizing members of Congress for backing Netanyahu.

She apologized for using that phrase in reference to Israel.

[dem4decades]

13. I'm not Quite sure who has Qevin's balls, Trump or MTG? Or does each have one?

[Crunchy Frog]

17. Trump owns them, but MTG is borrowing them.

[11 Bravo]

39. Assuming facts not in evidence, ie: any balls whatsoever, at any time.

[dem4decades]

40. The poor guy, no balls nor brains? At least he has the hair.

Probably the one he would choose first anyway.

[Crunchy Frog]

15. Short version: LOOK WHAT THE DEMOCRATS DID!!!!!!!!

[2naSalit]

16. I'm gonna go out on a limb here and suggest...

That he can't do much because he has his leadership position as a result of blackmail and it puts him in a bad light with his fellow grifters and criminals if he actually did something to punish her.

[twin_ghost]

18. Whataboutism. n/t

[EarlG]

19. There you have it. McCarthy is fully on board the Marjorie Taylor Green train

Welcome to the RepubliQAn Party.

Here's Taylor Green THIS MORNING:

[The Democratic Party is] Filled with members who supported, cheered on, & funded criminal thugs who riot, burn, loot, attack police, murder, & occupy federal property.

Members who sleep with our greatest enemy, marry their brother to get him in our country, lead a violent mob in neighborhoods, and more.

They are only set out to destroy Republicans, your jobs, our economy, your children’s education and lives, steal our freedoms, and erase God’s creation.

And the bloodthirsty media are their henchmen who help them by relentlessly attacking anyone in their path.

We know who they all are.

We owe them no apologies

We will never back down.

We only serve the ONE who created us ALL, and we only bow to HIM.

And we know who we are, free and saved by HIS grace.

No matter what.

https://www.rawstory.com/marjorie-taylor-green-2650267782/

Looking at the section of his statement about Democrats, it seems the Republican House Minority Leader is in lockstep with this lunatic. Okay then.

[yonder]

20. "I hold her to her word" sounds a whole lot like

Susan Collins' "He's learned his lesson".

It's just more words (held or not) from the words instead of action crowd. And speaking of words, half of McCarthy's statement was Leadership bashing anyway.

[obamanut2012]

22. Except she is still ranting, including today!

[DFW]

23. "Spreaker Pelosi and the Democrat leadership"--look no further

"the Democrat leadership" instead of the Democratic leadership

Code words for "hey, fellow Republicans, any hints of concession in this speech are total BS, and I mean none of them."

Code recognized, hint received, understood and noted.

[Caliman73]

37. You want to see something messed up?

https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/members

We are the Democratic Party. I individually am a Democrat, which is how we have referred to ourselves, but my Democratic representative is not a member of the Democrat Party. It should be

Democratic Members

[MagickMuffin]

24. Sure Qevin just like ALL Americans are guilty and bare responsibility for the insurrection

Dude put the crack pipe down and come off that ledge, you gonna hurt yourself!

[liberal_mama]

25. I don't think she learned her lesson. She was tweeting conspiracy theories today!

Saying that Rep Omar married her brother and other crazy shit.

[MyNameGoesHere]

27. Magat Traitor Greene and her enablers need expelled. Period.

Nothing less is a loss for decency and democracy.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

29. Damn, she really pantsed him!! nt

[spanone]

33. The republican party is an enemy of The United States of America.

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Pretty obvious.

[Piratedog]

42. McCarthy said,"Rep Greene's asscrack tastes much like trumps."