Marjorie Taylor Greene has 'descended into a sad clown party of one': columnist
As she heads to the end of her second term in Congress, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appears to have reached a crossroads where she needs to decide if she wants to be an effective lawmaker or continue down the path to irrelevance.
According to New York Times opinion writer Michelle Cottle, the controversial Georgia Republican has alienated both mainstream Republicans as well as the MAGA wing of the party to the point where it is difficult to find anyone in Congress who will defend her.
Taylor Greene's attempt to plunge the House GOP caucus by ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) went down in flames with members of her own party and that has led to questions about her political future.
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As Cottle colorfully put it, "In the wake of Ms. Greene’s failed crusade to depose House Speaker Mike Johnson, her craziest-clown-at-the-carnival act seems to have descended into a sad clown party of one."
"Not long ago, people were buzzing about the MAGA radical as a kind of shadow speaker, the woman who had her party’s leadership running scared," she reported before adding, "Three years into her congressional tenure, Ms. Greene has reached a defining moment of sorts. Does she want to remain a fringy, bomb-lobbing troll in the backbenches, or will she try to become something more?"
To bolster her argument, she turned to one of Taylor Greene's fellow Georgia Republicans, ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who admitted that in not even four short years, Taylor Greene has worn out her welcome with her conservative colleagues.
Gingrich compared her to a "fractious cousin who comes to Thanksgiving dinner," explaining, "They’re cute up through the salad. Then they start to become obnoxious, and by dessert, you want to send them outside.”
The former GOP leader also called out Taylor Greene's penchant for making outrageous statements just to draw attention to herself and raise donations and claimed conservatives have grown wise to her schtick.
That led Cottle to suggest, "That’s when they truly get tired of your nonsense and you wind up increasingly marginalized. If it’s real power she’s after, she is unlikely ever to reach it this way."
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