Keeping "the Crazy" in Check

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

Just keeping "the crazy" in check can be a major accomplishment in its own right.

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, bragged on a conservative talk show recently that she gets more done than most members of Congress.  In reality, Greene, who was booted from all of her committee assignments by the full House over several controversial statements she made, gets almost nothing done through her role as a member of Congress, but that is not to say that she does not stay busy.

In recent weeks Congresswoman Greene has engaged in a national speaking tour with fellow Republican congressman, Matt Gaetz of Florida, a man who is reportedly being investigated by the FBI for sex-trafficking a minor.  Now she is campaigning on social media to raise funds for the defense of Kyle Rittenhouse, the young man accused of killing two individuals and wounding a third at a Black Lives Matter protest demonstration in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August of 2020. 

Today I saw a tweet posted by the perpetually noisy Congresswoman Greene where she was bragging about defying the House mandate that members wear a face mask while in the House Chamber.  Greene boasted that she has accumulated over $25,000 in fines because she refuses to wear a mask "where over 80% of the House is vaccinated and I am not sick."  The implication there is that she does not have to follow rules because others do follow rules.  If they get vaccinated, that helps to insure her safety, so why does she have to inconvenience herself by wearing a mask?

It's all about Marjorie.

(The congresswoman's bravado is getting into her pocket, however, because her direct-deposit congressional pay is reportedly being docked for the mask fines - money which Speaker Pelosi ought to earmark to fund social welfare programs!)

Ironically, Rep. Greene was photographed recently in the first-class section of a passenger aircraft wearing a mask.  Apparently having to drive between Georgia and Washington, DC, on a weekly basis was a bridge too far, even for the  conspiracy-ladened legislator, so she has opted to follow airline rules without protest.

Rep. Greene has declined to say publicly whether she has been vaccinated or not, citing her HIPAA rights to keep her medical history private.   

Sometimes political aberrations like Marjorie Tayor Greene disappear from public view almost as quickly as they emerged, but not always.  If the Republicans could manage to flip just a very few more House seats in the 2022 election cycle, we could conceivably be dealing with Speaker Greene two years from now.  Then "the crazy" would know no limits!