2h ago
12:02
Richard
Cowan at Reuters describes the Republican party as facing an “identity dilemma”
over “strikingly different” Reps. Liz Cheney and Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Decisions
made in the next couple of days by Congressional Republicans will send a strong
signal nationwide, almost certain to alienate a chunk of their supporters.
Cheney, the
No. 3 House of Representatives Republican, is facing heat for her vote to
impeach former President Donald Trump, while Greene is in the hotseat for
having supported conspiracy theories and online calls for violence against
Democrats.
The 211
House Republicans who have been invited to a closed-door meeting also are
expected to weigh both, though it is unclear if they will act today.
House
minority leader Kevin McCarthy is being pulled in opposite directions from
members of his rank-and-file, who have been riven for months over Trump’s
insistence, without evidence, that the 2020 election was “stolen” from him and
by the increasingly violent rhetoric among members of the Republican Party.
House
Democrats, who hold a slim majority, were preparing to advance legislation on
Wednesday relieving Greene of her committee assignments if House Republicans
did not act promptly. Some Democrats called for her to be expelled from
Congress.
55m ago
12:43
Politico’s
Playbook is this morning claiming to have the behind-the-scenes scoop on the
Republican shenanigans over Marjorie Taylor Greene. They write:
Tuesday night with Greene, House minority leader
McCarthy explained to the QAnon supporter that her controversial past
statements were coming to a head. The problem, McCarthy told her: Democrats are
threatening to force a vote to remove her from her committees — and that puts
the entire GOP Conference in a bad spot. McCarthy tried to give Greene options,
according to a person familiar with their talk: She could denounce QAnon and
apologize publicly for espousing hurtful conspiracy theories and endorsing
violence on Democrats. She could remove herself from the panel to spare her
colleagues a vote on the matter. Or, she could face removal from her own GOP
peers.
It must not have gone as well as McCarthy hoped,
because he then called a late-night meeting with the panel that designates
committee assignments to discuss removing Greene. According to our sources, the
room agreed that a House vote on this issue would be catastrophic politically
for their members who are already angry at being associated with Greene’s crazy
statements. That must be avoided, they concurred.
McCarthy told the room he would speak with House
majority leader Steny Hoyer to try to broker a deal. McCarthy would offer to
remove Greene from one committee — Education and Labor — if Democrats back off
a House floor vote to remove her from both. It is unclear whether Hoyer will go
for this.
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