Greene A ‘Cancer’ On Republicans, McConnell Says, As Democrats Push To Drop Her

Greene A ‘Cancer’ On Republicans, McConnell Says, As Democrats Push To Drop Her

Via Reuters:

Mitch McConnell, the top Senate Republican, said on Monday that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene’s embrace of conspiracy theories was a “cancer” on their party, as House Democrats moved to strip her of committee assignments.

Incendiary comments Greene made including denying that school shootings took place and expressing support for violence have emerged in recent days.

Democratic Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz introduced a resolution to remove the newly elected Republican representative from Georgia from her seats on the education and budget committees of the House of Representatives.

“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country,” McConnell, the Senate minority leader, said in a statement to reporters.

“Somebody who’s suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.’s airplane is not living in reality,” he said.

Greene struck back at McConnell on Twitter, saying: “The real cancer for the Republican Party is weak Republicans who only know how to lose gracefully.”

She earlier warned Democrats that Republicans could remove them from committee positions if they win control of the House in 2022 elections.

“And we will regain the majority, make no mistake about that,” she wrote on Twitter.

“We can’t stop her from speaking,” Wasserman Schultz told an online news conference with two other Democrats, Representatives Ted Deutch and Jahana Hayes. “What we can do though, is essentially render her nearly powerless. That’s what the intent of this resolution is.”

Wasserman Schultz’s approach would require a simple majority vote to pass the House, where Democrats hold 221 seats to Republicans’ 211. That makes the measure far easier to pass then a separate effort, circulated by Democratic Representative Jimmy Gomez, to expel Greene, which would require a two-thirds vote to pass.

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