Greene Has ‘Good Call’ With McCarthy After Threatening Support

After days of complaining that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) hasn’t “fought” hard enough for her or for fellow censured Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) on Friday night claimed that she had a “good call” with McCarthy amid his ambitions for House speaker if the GOP retakes the majority next year.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1396109

ANY attention is GOOD attention, hey Marge? You figure if you are loud enough, heinous enough, lie enough that everyone will cave to you? Kevin McCarthy is a cowardly fool…be careful what you ‘wish’ for.

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Seems like R-Fresno is getting ready to be head of the “Cancel Culture Caucus”.

“Hurt our feeling, we will go after you.”

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MTG is now like an unrepentant drunkard compulsively needing her attention fix.

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Something along the lines of…

“If I go down, I’m taking you down with me” - Qevin MqQarthy

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Fun new wrinkle, if more than a year old, in the internecine warfare: If your rabidly unquestioning supporters failed to keep your epically disastrous self from reaping consequences, they didn’t fight for you hard enough and thus are worthless and no better than traitors. Although you could deplore this in anyone, if your enemies are doing it, well, that’s not so bad, now, is it? :smiling_imp:

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Greene reminded Qevin that she, Boebert and Gosar are the future of the Republican Party and he better lead or get out of their way. Fascists don’t just execute their enemies.

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Huh…and I didn’t think Qevin had any family jewels left to hand over…

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solving problems not only in the conference, but for our country.

Priorities, but in her defense it might be an acknowledgement of a simple reality. If McCarthy cannot be an effective dictator of his House caucus how can he be expected to lead his faction of a National authoritarian government.

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Once you start crawling for people they get to expecting it.

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Oh no. Hang on while I look for my sad face…

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Shorter MTG: “We had tantric phone sex.”

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MTG’s crime in McCarthy’s eyes is suggesting he won’t be Speaker. If he doesn’t do it this time around, he’s history in any case and would not run in 2024. McCarthy’s great weakness is that he has never crafted legislation aside from changing the name of the Bakersfield Post Office. Just tried to extend his reputation from the California Assembly that he is a get along go along good guy through his Young Gun days. He is emblematic of his party these days, however, functionally illiterate and innumerate, delegating writing and thinking tasks to his office or K-Street agencies. There is also a danger of such vapid people in leadership: corruption. Roger Ailes originally proposed doubling down on Trump jokingly, not realizing others like Mercer, Murdoch and Putin could get behind that in a serious way. And McCarthy is submissive to Trump’s vapidity. Imagine the mischief the next Congress could get into without any adult supervision or guidance!

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Sometimes I think of her as Empty Greene and other times i prefer Marginal Taylor Greene. :thinking:

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I would say “revolutionaries”. MTG and her partners perceive themselves as the vanguard of a revolution.

Look at most revolutions and the collateral damage; French, Russian and Chinese for example. All had their periods of “Terror” where millions died. And many of the "Revolutionaries’ were consumed along side plain ordinary people.

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So, it was a “good” call but not like one of Trump’s “perfect” calls?

Nothing overtly illegal was discussed - corrupt and despicable, sure, but not illegal.

Unless a transcript or tape come out - then it might need to be described as “perfect,” what with the blackmail and extortion.

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No doubt he’s a dull-witted lackey by nature, and in no way a leader, but I think her actual complaint is that she wants to be able to abuse people with impunity and he can’t make that happen for her. She wants to be a “made man,” so to speak, in a criminal syndicate, with a level of protection that effectively means she can’t be touched. But then he buttered her up and made promises and now everything’s temporarily fine because nobody we’re talking about here is very bright.

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C’mon TPM. Clickbait nonsense.

Ok, maybe nothing is happening in America, the World etc.

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It’s a holiday weekend

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That’s the way I read her too: what she likes is the hitting but the getting hit part not so much.

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