Oh, get stuffed with your ludicrous “free speech” whining.
I’ve been on a news fast the last few days — it’s a tool for maintaining my sanity — and I totally missed this unexpected news:
Greene abruptly resigned from Congress, effective 5 January, in a 10-minute video post outlining her unhappiness with Republicans on issues including the public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files in the government’s possession, US financing of foreign conflicts, Trump’s decision to potentially back a candidate against her, and the cost of living and healthcare.
Well, good riddance. Of course she also spoiled her exit by comparing herself to a “battered wife,” which was wildly inappropriated — she’s getting rich off her connections, is featured on the national news all the time, and has more power to influence public policy than most of us. I’m not buying it. At least Ocasio-Cortez sees right through her.
“She’s carefully timing her departure just 1-2 days after her pension kicks in,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a statement on her Instagram account, and criticized her voting record on healthcare.
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But Ocasio-Cortez said Greene “is saying a lot but her ACTIONS have not backed up the rhetoric. For all her talk, she’s STILL voting with them to gut healthcare … ”Greene voted in the summer for cuts to Medicaid and the reduction of enhanced tax credits for the Affordable Care Act, but then in October criticized the ACA cuts as premiums soared.
She’ll be back, unfortunately. She loves the spotlight too much.
MTG WTF…What the Fuck?!
I was going to point that out.
Congressional pension
My thought was: Coward!
She loved to bully others and preach hatred, but now that she got on the bigger bullys bad side and is on the receiving end for once, she runs away.
Though the pension thing is a good explanation. Financial future secured she can enjoy the spotlight (and make even more money) whenever and how often it suits her.
She is vested for a pension, but ineligible to draw on it for about 11 years. She will need something to tide her over in the meantime. Expect to see her on the right wing grievance circuit; perhaps she can get a gig with the Riley Gaines Center.
Or perhaps she will take a classified consulting job for the U.S. Space Force, helping to protect ‘Murica from Jewish space lasers.
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It is amazing to consider that there is an entire congressional district in Georgia that repeatedly felt she was the best choice to represent their interests in Congress.
Borrowing a bit from some forgotten commentator in 1962 when Nixon “resigned,” I won’t believe MTG is really finished until I see a stake through her heart.
She wanted to run for Senate but Don Dong wouldn’t back her…that’s one of the reasons for the rift per the news media. So she runs for the Senate as an “independent” right-wing nut case. She probably can’t win without GOP money, but Don Dong has proven there’s big money to be made from running for office. In the meantime she’ll get invites to paid gigs on right-wing nut case talk shows and do her little song and dance to make some money. Plus there’s always consulting. I’ve never heard of a former member of Congress with a solid reputation as a con artist starving to death..
Maybe she’ll marry her “domestic partner”. Living in sin probably isn’t helping her position within the cult.
@7 robro
If she splits the right-wing vote, that would be OK with me.
You know that the cult rules don’t apply to the leaders.