Whatever Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-Ga.) politics, it’s time for Congress to censure the 46-year-old first-term Congresswoman. While she’s entitled to her eccentric views, she’s not entitled to accost 31-year-old Rep. Alexandiria Ocassio-Cortez [AOC] walking in the halls of Congress. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), 80, said Taylor Green accosted AOC, verbally berating her in some intemperate outburst, accusing the progressive lawmaker of supporting “terrorists,” a reference to the recent Palestinian Hamas war against Israel. AOC generally backs Palestinian rights, even if they choose to fire rockets into Israel. Greene’s passionate about many things, including her known sympathies to Q-Anon, a right wing conspiracy group that accuses Democrats, like 73-year-old former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,.of running a Satanic Washington pedophile ring.
Greene’s way-out ideas helped endear her to 74-year-old former President Donald Trump and his hardcore supporters, who, for whatever reason, stormed the Capitol Jan. 6, defacing government property. Greene also backs Trump’s claim that Democrats conspired to steal the Nov. 3, 2020 election, prompting Democrats, like Pelosi, to blame him for the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mob scene. If there were ever opposites, AOC and Greene represent polar opposites of the political spectrum, with AOC leaning so far left with her squad of like-minded female representatives, 44-year-old Rashid Tlaib (D-Mich.), 38-year-old Rep. Ilhan Oamar (D-Minn.) and 47-Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), all of whom accuse Israel of running an “Apartheid” state, violating Palestinians’ civil and human rights. Expressing clearly biased and misinformed views about Israel irks a lot of people.
Accosting AOC, whatever her personal views, shows that Greene isn’t playing with full deck, requiring either censure or some kind of intervention. “I think what was reported to our office about what happened as members were leaving the floor yesterday, the verbal assault and abuse of our colleague, Congresswoman AOC,” Pelosi told the press at her weekly press conference. Greene’s been saying AOC and other left-wing members of Congress have put former Trump officials on hit list, denying them employment opportunities. Greene said AOC puts Trump officials “on lists to destroy their lives and prevent them from future employment,” some possible in the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Pelosi’s impeachment article against Trump accused the former president of “incitement of insurrection,” something so paranoid, so preposterous, not supported by any facts.
Whatever happened Jan. 6, it was anything but an insurrection. Rabble-rousers that stormed the capitol cam armed with cell phones to take selfies while they acted like jerks invading the Capitol offices. But whatever you say about the idiots that breached the Capitol’s grounds, they were not armed with Kalashnikov’s or Molotov cocktails, looking to massacre vast numbers of people in a bloody coup d’teat. Accusing Trump of backing an “insurrection” shows the extent of Pelosi’s hatred of the former president, looking to find any excuse convict him of high-crimes-and-misdemeanors. Pelosi knows that Greene is a loyal Trump supporter, reason enough to see her evicted from Congress. But whatever Greene’s loyalty or crazy beliefs, she lack of restraint demonstrating that she’s not mentally fit to perform her job. Pelosi and other Democrats are still traumatized by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and mob scene.
AOC said today that Greene was “very unwell,” an awkward of saying she’s mentally ill, needing some kind of intervention. Before she entered Congress Jan. 3, 2021, she spoke through AOC’s mail slot, accusing the congresswoman of refusing to come out and face her constituents. She once chased down 21-year-old Parkland school-shooting survivor David Hogg, screaming at him about taking away her Second Amendment rights. But whatever Greene’s past antics, she’s a member of Congress, expected to show a certain amount of dignity. Greene once showed herself carrying an assault rifle photo-shopped to look like she was confronting AOC, Tlaib, Omar and Pressley. Whether Greene’s walked back her support for Q-Anon, alleging Democrats participate in Satanic pedophile cults, she still over the deep end when it comes accosting AOC in the halls of Congress.
Pelosi needs to refer Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green to the House Ethic’s Committee to look into whether she needs a mental health evaluation. AOC clearly thinks there’s something wrong with her. Whatever her wacky beliefs, screaming at a colleague is no way to comport herself. Pelosi said Greene’s behavior was “beneath the dignity of a person serving in Congress of the United States, and is a cause for trauma and fear among members,” referring to Greene’s affinity for the kind or rabble-rousers that stormed Congress on Jan. 6. Whatever one thinks of AOC, she’s become a highly respected progressive in Congress, a kind of younger female version of Sen. Bernie Sanders ((I-Vt.), commanding constant media attention. Taylor Greene has only generated notoriety, embarrassing Congress with her continued antics. Pelosi has every right to ask the Ethics Committee to investigate whether Greene is fit for office.
