Greene: If McCarthy wants to make base happy, he’ll ‘give me a lot of power’
Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) warned that the Republican base would be “very unhappy” if House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif) does not give her more power if Republicans take control of the chamber next year.
In a New York Times Magazine profile on Monday examining Greene’s rise in influence and future, the Georgia congresswoman indicated that McCarthy would have to adopt her “a lot more aggressive” approach toward President Biden, whom she has introduced multiple articles of impeachment against.
“I think that to be the best Speaker of the House and to please the base, he’s going to give me a lot of power and a lot of leeway,” Greene said. “And if he doesn’t, they’re going to be very unhappy about it. I think that’s the best way to read that. And that’s not in any way a threat at all. I just think that’s reality.”
McCarthy, who is aiming to become Speaker in a House majority, has given the confrontational right flank of the House GOP a seat at the table as he aims to shore up support. Greene was in attendance at a House GOP “Commitment to America” midterm policy and platform rollout event in Pennsylvania last month.
Greene was stripped of her committee assignments soon after being sworn into office as punishment for her posts about conspiracy theories and liking a Facebook comment that called for the assassination of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
McCarthy has pledged to restore Greene’s committee assignments, suggesting at one point that she could have even “better committees” than the ones she was assigned to before – the Education and Labor and Budget committees.
“I would like to be on Oversight,” Greene told the New York Times Magazine. “I would also like to be on Judiciary. I think both of those I’d be good on.”
Republicans on both the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees have been preparing to bring a spotlight to the business activities of Biden’s son Hunter Biden’s business activities and social media suppression of an election-season 2020 New York Post story revealing the contents of his laptop.
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— The Hill (@thehill) October 18, 2022
Can you imagine how @gopleader feels right now? Weak
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— Adam Kinzinger #fella (@AdamKinzinger) October 18, 2022
2/ First, live a double life. Pretend to donors you're from GOP 1.0, telling them behind closed doors it's you or the bloody-handed MAGA horde. "Hey, we gotta pass a tax cut and protect carried interest deductions, and you won't get that with Speaker MTG."
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2022
4/ But the double life is all they've got to keep the sane major donor types funding the committees. Again, this illusion is coming to a halt soon, because of Trump's sadism, the swelling ranks of MAGA types, and their dedication to nihilist spectacle.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2022
6/ Second, pretend that the only path to conservative victories is through a compromise with evil. "Hey, we know they're leopards, but what's having your face eater off if we get our regulatory relief?"
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2022
8/ "We had to compromise with evil" because of what?
Imaginary communism? CRT? Black Lives Matter? Obamacare?
No, they compromised with evil and will continue to do so because it's easy.
And, if you listen closely, because it's fun.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2022
10/ Finally, tell stories from The Catalog of Imaginary Demons. Cat litter in classrooms. Stolen elections. Mandatory sharia gay marriage drag queens. Whatever pokes the worn and calcified amygdalae of MAGA.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2022
12 /…Marxist mind controllers just don't exist…except in the heads of the editors of Trumpbart et al. (And btw, they ALL know better, but rubes gonna click). Kevin McCarthy can BARELY even keep a straight face on these.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2022
14/ THAT comfy illusion ("He's gone and Mitch is BACK, baby) is just that. An illusion. Trump — indicted or not — dominates every single aspect of their lives. He is the mass growing inside their lives and souls, killing everything about them in his endless, sadist game.
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 18, 2022
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