If Marjorie Taylor Greene Isn't Beyond the Pale, Who Is?, Editorial NYT, 1/31..:

[Stuart G]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/31/opinion/marjorie-taylor-greene-gop.html
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How far is too far? This is the question Republican leaders are being forced to grapple with as the public outcry grows over one of their newest House members, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

The Georgia freshman is best known for endorsing QAnon, the right-wing movement convinced of the fiction that Donald Trump is a messiah sent to defeat a cabal of Satan-worshiping, child-abusing, deep-state villains. But this is just one of the bizarre lies she has peddled. Her greatest hits include promoting the conspiracy theory that blames the 2018 Camp Fire wildfire in California on a space laser controlled by a prominent Jewish banking family, suggesting the Obama administration used its MS-13 “henchmen” to murder a Democratic National Committee staff member and floating the idea that the Clintons had John F. Kennedy Jr. killed. She has dabbled in 9/11 Trutherism and contended that various school shootings were false-flag operations. She also traffics in racist, anti-Semitic and anti-Muslim talk.

Ms. Greene does not draw the line at promoting bigotry and disinformation. Videos and social media posts from before she ran for Congress show her endorsing violence against those she sees as enemy combatants in an ongoing civil war. She has expressed support of social media calls to execute high-profile Democrats, including the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and F.B.I. agents. When asked about such activities, Ms. Greene has dodged, asserting that her pages have been run by “teams” of people over the years, some promoting views with which she does not agree. Many of the posts in question have since been scrubbed.

[Blue Owl]

1. Will the GOP's bottomless bar ever stop anywhere?

Or just keep sinking lower and lower and lower?

[Stuart G]

2. This is an opportunity for GOP leadership to do something about that bar.

I doubt anyone in GOP leadership will stand up against her. GOP leadership is part of the reason that
the bar has gone so low...Maybe....but I wouldn't wait. We all be waiting a long, long, time.