Say It Ain't So Marge!

 

So Marjorie Taylor Greene is resigning from Congress.

Not A Real Congresswoman: But She Played One On TV

She will not finish her term in Congress representing the  MAGA Georgia 14th district, which is White, rural, poor and undereducated. (Surprise.)

How did we love MGT? Let us count the ways:

1. She insisted the Democratic party is the party of pedophiles.

2. She said Democrats "groomed" children to become transgender.

3.  When asked why she called Democrats names, like "pedophiles" she replied the Democrats had started it--"All they've done is called me names and insult me from the start."

4. She liked a Facebook comment saying Nancy Pelosi "should get a bullet in her head." Then she said those were not her words, they were just on FB--she only liked them, and then she said maybe she didn't control her own FB page.

5. She said that America should be a "Christian nation."

When asked about the First Amendment and its proscription against the government establishing religion she said the founding fathers quoted the Bible all the time, which proves they really wanted the nation to be a Christian nation, but they were too diplomatic to say so, and separation of church and state is a myth and a very bad idea and is nowhere in the Constitution. She was correct about that: that phrase appears nowhere in the Constitution, only government "shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion," which, when you think about it, might mean that Congress cannot make a law forbidding the establishment of religion, but that would be a whole other blog.

6. She wanted to stop all immigration for four years.

7. She wanted a national abortion ban

8. She said the federal government could control the weather, including hurricanes, "Yes, they can control the weather. It's ridiculous to lie about it and say it can't be done."  She continued, "If your home or business or property is damaged or a love one is killed by their weather modifications shouldn't you be eligible for compensation? After all, did they ask you if you agreed to our weather being modified?"

She was really a master of "they." They was the enemy, unseen, protected, and nearly all powerful, doing stuff to ordinary folks which really hurts them.

9. In another weather related blast, she claimed FEMA was directing relief efforts and funds away from real Americans and toward migrants, or "illegals" as she like to call them.

10. And, rounding out the top 10, of course, who could forget her public service announcement that the wildfires in California were started by lasers from space sponsored by George Soros, who is Jewish? 

And thus was born "The Jewish space lasers," which is really an immortal MAGA phrase if ever there was one.

Sadly, Mad Dog has never been able to find with Google her assessment of the movie, "Men In Black," which Mad Dog is sure she regards as a documentary.

Who's Your Daddy, Now?

What is really depressing is Ms. MTG has explained she is leaving Congress because she feels like an abused wife, with President Trump being mean to her.  As far as Mad Dog can ascertain, Mr. Trump has not actually physically struck her --that would be inadvisable given their comparative physiques--but it must be the mental anguish inflicted by being called "whacky." 

So the only Republican with the spine to stand up to Mr. Trump over the Epstein files and health insurance is leaving because her feelings have been hurt?

And she abhors the "toxic environment" in Washington?

That sounds like British Petroleum announcing it's leaving the Gulf of Mexico--oh, that would be the Gulf of America in MAGAspeak--because its oil wells have so contaminated the waters it's just not a place they want to hang out any more.

The fact is, with her latest turn, Ms. MTG finally became actually amusing, or interesting maybe even, but just when she does, she leaves.

Which is not to say she'll leave Washington, or the MAGA/QANON media hive.  She currently makes $174,000 as a Congresswoman. What do you think FOXNEWS or Stormfront, or The Coming Fury or The Tip of the Spear or Aryan Nation will be willing to pay her?

And the thing is, Ms. Greene is likely no worse than the people who sent her to Congress. If she thinks her place at the bottom of the heap is where the rich, educated and powerful conspire to place her, well, that's what her people at home think. If she feels insulted, it is on behalf of her home folks. If she thinks the government controls the weather it's because she believes science is capable of anything but it's not available to people like her, only to the elites. 

But then, when her party decided to kill Obamacare truly, sincerely and seriously dead, she realized her own kids would lose their insurance and after she finished ranting about the Democrats and socialized medicine, and after having voted to kill Obama care on 60 occasions, she could not escape the reality that she had just left her kids naked in the medical insurance world and so maybe something inside her snapped. Just saying. Only a guess. 

Not that she or any MAGA true believer will ever admit to having been wrong about health care, Obamacare or anything else, but that little voice inside is sometimes a stubborn thing and won't stay silent.

Or maybe, what really got to her was the respect which began to flicker from the Democratic side of the aisle. Remarks like, "I can't believe I'd ever be saying I agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene, but she alone seems to see what is happening with healthcare premiums, and she sees what it will do to the people of her district. Damn, girl!"

And what are the odds that President Trump will replace her by appointing Laura Loomer to take her place? That might be the job of the governor of Georgia, but Mr. Trump apparently knows the phone numbers of all the important Georgia officials which have been on his Rolodex since he called some of them looking for those 11,000 votes in that election which he says was stolen from him by Biden.

Mad Dog hasn't been this bummed out since Sarah Palin quit her job as governor of Alaska halfway through her term.

He will really miss Miss Greene's chanting and heckling from the floor of the House during State of the Union speeches.

But, then, there was a very peculiar, and in retrospect, premonitory remark, Ms. Greene made on November 6 after Nancy Pelosi announced this will be Pelosi's last term in Congress. 

"I served under her speakership in my first term in Congress, and I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done...So I wish her well in her retirement, but I would like to see people exit Washington a lot sooner rather than wait until their eighties."

A sort of left handed compliment, but a sort of grudging respect Mad Dog did not think MTG capable of--Pelosi overstayed her welcome, but she had some game.

Oh, Marjorie, we'll miss you so. 

CODA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1NCkNCJMiI