The Georgia Republican is fast falling out of favor for her opposition to the Ukraine aid bill.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greeneās failed fight to end aid to Ukraine, and herĀ sort-of-serious crusadeĀ against House Speaker Mike Johnson, has cost her the support of right-wing media.
The Sunday front page of the New York Post, owned by the conservative Murdoch family, was the latest outlet toĀ attackĀ Greene, invoking the āMoscow Marjorieā nicknameĀ coinedĀ by former representative Ken Buck.
Fox News, another arm of the Murdoch media empire, had alreadyĀ taken aimĀ at the Georgia Republican last week, with columnist Liz PeekĀ callingĀ her an āidiotā and saying she needs to āturn all that bombastic self-serving showmanship and drama queen energy on Democrats.ā This follows an editorial last month from The Wall Street Journal, also in the Murdoch portfolio, that called Greene āRep. Mayhem Taylor Greeneā and accused her and her allies of being āmost interested in TV hits and internet donors.ā
Even a non-Murdoch outlet is on the attack, as conservative Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist Debra SaundersĀ demandedĀ to know āwho put Marjorie Taylor Greene in charge?ā
She hasnāt caught up to the fact that the game is now ātry to claw back a semblence of seriousness for the party and hope the public forgets the last eight years of fully mask-off right-wing politicsā.
Thatās why Mike Johnson was brought in. Heās just as crazy as the rest of the far-right and is committed to their theocratic white nationalist policies, he just doesnāt get embroiled in twitter flame wars or say face-palm stupid stuff about jewish space lasers in public.
Itās interesting to see the GOP in retreat for once. I guess catching the car on abortion has been a painful lesson.
Itās nice that Trumpās delaying tactics mean that all his trials are now going on at the same time.
She hasnāt caught up to the fact that any protestations around money for Ukraine was just political theatre.
Any moment now, sheāll get a call from the Whips office, to remind her that once all the hootin and hollerin is done and itās time to vote, the golden rule applies ;
you never vote against giving public money to party donors especially when they are from the US arms industry - which is where most of the money will end up.