Don’t take my word for it, just keep your ears open and you will know that Marjorie Taylor Greene, the buffoon from Georgia, has struck again. Frontpage news this week is that Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, plans to address aid for Ukraine, an action that has become a cause celebre for the Republican Right which has held up sending arms to the beleaguered Ukrainians for over six months, this in spite of American pledges notwithstanding.
Ms. Greene has filed a motion to vacate Johnson as Speaker if he brings aid for Ukraine to a vote. Support for the aid package has already passed the Senate and has broad support in the House as well if brought to a vote.
So there it is: the Speaker, the second most powerful officer in the United States government, is held hostage for his job while we all stand by as witnesses to the dysfunction. All because of one malcontent representative hell-bent on creating havoc..
Here is a poem that aptly puts the esteemed representative’s credentials in context:
Marjorie Taylor Greene *
"She’s earned great renown as a ludicrous clown
whose birdbrained pronouncements and other announcements
have made her the talk of the town.
Says she:
By six billion our border’s been breached and my hair has been bleached
by a laser-wielding Jew —- it’s from outer space, too.
There’s nowhere the conspiracy hasn’t reached.
The Democrats have plans to turn us all trans.
They’re like gazpacho (though she means “Gestapo”),
as she claims to her Fox News fans.
The Dems are pedophiles too and not just a few.
Due process they annihilate and fragrantly violate.
(Could Pelosi be secretly a Jew?)
Evil Bill Gates wants control of our fates.
He ardently wishes for meat made in Peachtree dishes
which he will force onto all of our plates.
There are many more gaffes that would bring further laughs
but I think I’ll stop here or I’d be quacking in fear
that this poem would take many more paragraphs."
*Published inTopical Poetry 3|22|2023 by David Blumenfeld
She’s bucking for the VP position running with ‘hairdo!’ Anyway she can keep her name in the headlines. Personally, I was appalled by her constant outbursts at the State of the Union address. No matter your political affiliation, one should respect the office of the President of the United States.
What a scumbag – !
Thanks Bonnie, you are, of course, right about her. And her outbursts during the State of the Union were abominable. But what do Trump’s supporters, those who voted for him in 2016 and 2020, say about her and other MAGA wingnuts?