Louisiana Voice

The Democrat-majority House will VOTE Thursday on whether Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene will be stripped of her membership on House committees, including the Committee on Education and Labor and the Committee on the Budget after Republicans PUNTED on punishing the Georgia kook for her conspiracy theories, stalking activities and Qanon affiliation.

But from my vantage point as a non-politician with no contacts inside the Beltway, no inside knowledge other than what I see and read, I believe the Democrats are making a serious mistake in going after the female version of Clay Higgins, but without the charm, the intelligence and the humility.

This woman goes way beyond weird. She makes Batman, Superman, and Spider Man seem plausible and Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny something more substantial than a myth.

And she’s the best thing that’s happened to the Democratic Party. The Democrats in Congress should be doing everything in their power to keep her on her committees – not working to kick her off. Every time she opens her mouth, the Republican hole of credibility gets a little deeper.

Damon Linker, writing for THE WEEK, said “…lavishing attention on her definitely will vastly raise her profile and increase the size of her audience beyond her George district.”

He’s correct (see coverage of four years of Trump tweets). I have a friend up in St. Francisville who consistently lamented the coverage given Trump’s outlandish proclamations (“nuke hurricanes,” “drink bleach,” “it’s just like the flu,” “it’ll be over by April,” “fake news,” “witch hunt,” “no collusion,’ ya-da, ya-da).

Now Trump is threatening to start his own political party, something called the “Patriot Party.” Again, I wholeheartedly encourage him. He will not only finish destroying the Repugnantcan Party in the process, but will add yet another to his growing list of FAILED ENTERPRISES (see Trump Airlines, Trump Beverages, Trump: The Game, Trump Magazine, Trump Mortgage, Trump University, Trump Steaks, Trump’s Travel Site, Trump’s Communications Company, Trump Tower Tampa, Trump Vodka, Trump Ice, The New Jersey Generals football team, Trump Network, Trump Plaza Hotel, and, of course, Trump Casinos).

But I digress.

We have witnessed the morphing of the Repugnantcan Party from the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Trump and now the Party of Marjorie Taylor Greene. Riding shotgun in her kookmobile is Josh Hawley, with Gym Jordan, the aforementioned Higgins, Mike Johnson and John Neely Kennedy crammed into the rumble seat as they careen the wrong direction down the Political Expressway.

Among Taylor Greene’s more outrageous claims:

• A plane did not fly into the Pentagon on 9/11.
• 9/11 was a government hoax.
• Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg is a crisis actor.
• Charlottesville was an inside job.
• Democrats are satanic pedophiles.
• Nancy Pelosi should be executed for treason.
• Jewish space lasers started the California fires last year to clear land for a high-speed railroad.
• Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been replaced by a body double prior to her actual death.
• Israel was somehow connected to the JFK assassination
• JFK, Jr. is alive and well.
• Robert Mueller was appointed by Trump to investigate Hillary Clinton.
• Lizard people control the world.
• Trump won.

This, dear readers, is the new face of the Repugnantcan Party. Abe and Teddy Roosevelt would be mortified. Even Nixon would turn away in disgust.

Even Mitch McConnell, who protected Trump for four years, ramming through Trump’s Supreme Court nominee to replace Ginsburg just weeks before the 2020 election while denying Obama’s effort to nominate a justice nearly a year before the 2016 election, calls Taylor Greene a “cancer” on the Repugnantcan Party.

When you’re too “out there” for Moscow Mitch, you know things have pretty much gone to seed in the GOP.

How did the party that espouses family values, fiscal conservatism, law-and-order, and good old capitalism slide into such a condition? The answer can be found in two memos.

The first was the Lewis Powell MEMO, written a year before Nixon appointed him to the Supreme Court as his reward. That one was a “corporate blueprint to dominate democracy.”

The second, and most important, was the so-called SOUTHERN STRATEGY, a 500-page instruction manual for the Repugnantcan Party’s 1968 plan to absorb the erstwhile Democratic South into the party in order to gain total political dominance by appealing to white prejudices while pitting racial and ethnic groups against each other and gaining political capital from the competitions and resentments that ensued.

Kevin Phillips, the 28-year-old staffer in the Nixon White House who wrote the book, told writer Garry Wills during the 1968 presidential campaign, “The whole secret of politics is knowing who hates who.”

Phillips must’ve been paying attention when then-Sen. LYNDON JOHNSON said to Bill Moyers in 1960, “If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket.”

So, in the span of half-a-century, we’ve seen the resignation of a president, the impeachment of two others (one of those twice), the bombing of a federal courthouse in Oklahoma City, mass shootings (Taylor Greene and Alex Jones’s contentions to the contrary notwithstanding), and an unprecedent rise in right-wing extremism (that’s not to say the left has been completely dormant, the most vocal and extreme activity has come from the right).

The Southern Poverty Center has a list of EXTREMIST GROUPS that grows longer by the day. To try and understand the mindset of these people, in this case the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas, click HERE.

So, don’t go after Marjorie Taylor Greene with knives flashing. That’s exactly what she wants: victimhood.

You see, Marjorie Taylor Greene isn’t the problem. Neither is Gym Jordan, Josh Hawley, Tec Cruz or Clay Higgins. They’re just symptoms of a much larger and more deadly disease that, fed the mother’s milk of publicity, can only grow stronger, more credible and more lethal.

As we should have learned from four years of Trump, the one thing these people cannot stand is to be ignored. Ignored, they will fade into oblivion.

It was difficult to ignore Trump because he was, after all, president of the US, theoretically, the most powerful man on earth. His pronouncements carried consequences, good or bad, but consequences nonetheless.

But Marjorie Taylor Greene is one of 535 members of Congress. There are 100 senators whose thoughts and actions generally carry more meaning than House members (unless it’s someone like John Kennedy). And Marjorie is but one of 435 House members – and a lowly freshman at that. Her words and actions mean little without a platform or an audience.

So, Democrats, do what’s best for your party and let her rant to her flaky bimbo heart’s content.

After all, everyone loves a clown and if she’s ignored, she’s just a harmless hick clown from Georgia.