MTG’s Admirable Pugnacity Needs a Reality Check

April 24, 2024April 24, 2024By Paul Gottfried

In recent weeks, the Murdoch media empire has been in a feeding frenzy, attacking Georgia’s Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. The latest evidence of this obsession is the cover of the Sunday New York Post, which depicts Greene wearing a Soviet air force military hat (ushanka).

Greene represents all the positions the Murdoch family and their likeminded employees emphatically reject—such as dealing with our overrun borders before we shovel more money into the war in Ukraine; seriously reconsidering the reauthorization of the FBI’s power to obtain FISA warrants until we make sure this tool will not be used again against the Democrats’ political opponents; and treating social issues more seriously than our global crusade for whatever the spirit moves American politicians to consider human rights.

I agree with these priorities and have never ceased to marvel at Greene’s gutsiness and her rejection of the “common ground” philosophy pushed by The Wall Street Journal and the news anchors on Fox. Since the Democratic Party and its congressional representatives clearly favor the invasion of our country by unvetted illegals in order to create a one-party leftist state, I’ve no idea what kind of bipartisan cooperation is still possible—beyond spending more on foreign aid, reauthorizing government agencies already controlled by the woke left, and approving Democratic budgets.

For neoconservatives and establishment Republicans, this kind of cooperation is desirable. Their single greatest priorities are an overdrive liberal internationalist foreign policy together with perhaps more justifiable aid for Israel. Not surprisingly, the New York Post published a feature invective by British neocon lapdog Piers Morgan on April 22, depicting MTG as “Putin’s stooge.” This may be the nastiest piece the Murdoch media empire has ever commissioned against a politically uncooperative Republican; and Morgan unwittingly offers here a parody of how the left has depicted the late Senator Joseph McCarthy in this diatribe against domestic Russian agents.

Although Greene clearly is not an intellectual, she understands the big picture very well and she is obviously frustrated that she can’t bring more Republicans on board with her positions. And she’s not entirely to blame for her inability to make headway there. The Republican media seem largely dependent on resources provided by those who don’t favor her plans and priorities; and it’s quite possible that most voters want a Republican opposition that ensures their social programs, and which won’t take risks that might “close down” the government—even as they may have an exaggerated understanding of what that now means.

This brings us to the problem of what Greene is not noticing sufficiently. She will get nowhere by calling, once again, for an effort to vacate the speakership. Congressional Republicans are in a shambles and will stay that way unless they can elect more representatives to both Houses.

The infighting of a divided party is not helping the GOP, but Republicans would be in no position to carry out Greene’s wishes even if they all agreed with her. The Republican numerical advantage in the House is down to a one- or two-vote majority, and Greene’s party is outnumbered in the Senate by a Democratic Party that marches in lockstep. It is easier for Johnson and his followers to vote with the Democrats, and thus both win the applause of the Murdoch media empire and avoid the attacks of corporate media, than to vote with Greene and be politically isolated.

Greene seems to believe that she and her allies are acting from a position of strength. Exactly the opposite is the case. Her party has such a weak hand in Congress that their best course would be to devote their energies to increasing their presence there. Let Republicans vote as they want on foreign policy but stress the border issue 24/7 as our major military, foreign policy, and internal concern. Voters know why the Democrats are in favor of keeping the borders open and why they refuse to support a Republican bill that would have restored most of Trump’s controls! Wrap this issue around the necks of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, together with the upsurge of crime and the fentanyl epidemic caused by Democratic attempts to recruit illegals as Democratic voters.

But in the meantime, Greene and her supporters should do nothing that creates further instability among congressional Republicans. The party will have to wait until it can recapture both houses of Congress before it can act decisively against the opposing party. With all due respect to Greene, whose pugnacity generally has been a breath of fresh air for me, this is not the time to fight internal battles. Speaker Johnson’s position on Ukrainian aid may have been the path of least resistance but it may be the last time he’ll be able to take it. A majority of Republican congressmen opposed it, and what Congress passed, enjoys nothing close to majority support among Americans. But as former President Trump noted yesterday: “You really can’t get too tough with a slim majority.” It would be best for congressional Republicans to keep a low profile right now and wait to see if they can pull out a November win.

Comments (7)

“The party will have to wait until it can recapture both houses of Congress before it can act decisively against the opposing party.”

When exactly has the Republican party as currently constituted for at least half a century even attempted to “act decisively against the opposing party?” But next time it will happen, right?

April 24, 2024 Michael Kaiser Reply
No, the Republican party now is too broken apart already. It really is not a national party any more except in name. It is filled with cranks, self-perceived conservative “intellectuals,” Thom Tillis’s who very publicly say, also about a congressperson from his own state, that MTG is “hurting our brand,” as if that “brand” has been worth anything for decades anyway (LOL), Mitch McConnells who take the Ukraine vote as an opportunity to, once again very publicly, take on Tucker Carlson, who frankly could conceivably even become a president as opposed to McConnell’s numbers, and yet also McConnell has somehow been even Republican Senate leader?????, and so much more. Let the Republican party die nationally so as to flesh out the future. The Democrat/progressive strain dominates nationally in countless ways now anyway. Now is exactly the time to form what needs to come next as opposed to “fighting” perpetually with one hand tied behind our back because of divisions. The Republicans control enough states and have friendly parties in enough federal courts to blunt in the interim. Further, we would need almost unheard of majorities for the Republicans to accomplish anything substantive given all its current divisions except maybe cut some taxes for the rich and to please the Chamber of Commerce. Supply side nonsense does seem to pull together Republicans for some reason. But then again all one needs to do is listen to, almost without exception all, the commercials on conservative talk radio to ascertain much of the gene pool we are talking about. The current Republican party is really like the type of coalition you see put together in parliamentary systems, except that our Republican party does not even do that well. Lastly, someone has to explain to me, I mean with actual evidence or history of some kind, how a slim House majority somehow necessitated Johnson essentially capitulating on everything? Someone explain that to me? It’s not like he is going to pick up Democrat voters because of it. Further, I believe unquestionably there are Republican voters who now will sit on their hands. What am I missing? The government was not going to shut down over foreign funding or FISA reauthorization?

April 24, 2024 Michael Kaiser Reply
Reading between the lines, MTG is an embarrassing imbecile and should pull her head in. Totally agree

April 24, 2024 Dick Reply
Dick may not be reading my drift properly. I don’t consider MTG to be an idiot but a sometimes-impetuous champion of the Right, whom I am delighted to see in Congress. Unfortunately, she’s fooling herself about the leverage available to her party in the House, which is barely holding on to its slim majority. Congressional Republicans should be focused on two priorities right now, winning elections and screaming every minute about the invasion of illegals sponsored by the Democrats in order to create a one-party state.

April 25, 2024 Paul Gottfried Reply
R and D aren’t the real parties anymore. MTG is a member of the minority party in Congress. It’s a Populist party where the constituents of her Congressional District have the most important voice that she wants to hear. Matt Gaetz is another member of “Team-P”. They have, at the very MOST, about a hundred members in the House. The other 335 members belong to the UniParty via bribery, blackmail, or in actual agreement with insider Uniparty policies, “Team-U”. In the acronym MIICMATT, they are the “C” component. MIICMATT was coined by Ray McGovern, ex-CIA and founder of VIPS, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity. MIICMATT stands for Media, Intelligence, Industrial, Congressional, Military, Academia, Think Tank complex, an expansion of Eisenhower’s old MIC that he warned us about. MIICMATT, also called Deep State, Administrative State, The Swamp, The Ruling Elite, runs the Country now, after having fought a decades-long covert war to put themselves in the driver’s seat. The assassinations, character assassinations, riots, and other events staged by provocateurs, were orchestrated along the main theme of CAPTURE of the State by operatives, in the interest of MIICMATT rule. That’s why Deconstruction of the Administrative State is the #1 policy to implement. Vivek gets it. Trump gets it. MAGA/America First/Freedom Caucus gets it. And most likely RFK jr. gets it, since his own family members were direct casualties of this covert war for MIICMATT control of our Republic. This is where matters actually stand at the moment, IMO.

April 25, 2024 Larry Bowen Reply
MTG should continue to push Republicans to use the power they have to do what their voters want. The problem like you said is that Republican donors don’t agree with the voters. The main disconnect is there. The Republican Party is shifting towards voters but the transition has a long way to go regardless if they have majorities in both Houses. The last time they had that, they did nothing.

Republican voters need to vote for paleoconservative candidates in primaries who are willing to pursue a truly conservative platform and remove the liberals. Then numerical majorities may mean something then, and only then.

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April 26, 2024 RMB Reply
Her party has such a weak hand in Congress that their best course would be to devote their energies to increasing their presence there.

Such a true statement. Momentarily ignoring Greene, who I don’t believe is very smart, the few republicans who are trying to be conservative are insignificant. Currently the Democrats will support Mike Johnson because they know he can be on their team.

The republicans votend 3.2 billion to fly in illegal aliens to the US
The republicans voted for less oversight of spying on US citizens even after they sent Carter Paige to jail on a ‘Trumped’ up charge.

The strength of the nation has been destroyed and republicans are working hard alongside dumbocrats to shovel dirt on the grave.

She may be a dim bulb but MTG is one of the brightest lights we have. Keep the pressure on and keep a low profile. It worked at Lexington and Concord and it can work today.

May 2, 2024 Arthur_500 Reply

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