Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted House Republicans online who sank her resolution to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib, repeatedly posting the list of colleagues who rebuffed her efforts and attacking some of those GOP defectors directly.
Greene brought her resolution seeking to censure Tlaib over the Michigan Democrat’s response to the Israel-Hamas war Wednesday night, urging Republicans to back the measure. Ahead of the vote, she posted a nearly 20-minute video describing why it would be a “mistake” if the House GOP did not support her.
Still, 23 Republicans voted against the resolution, many citing concerns over Tlaib’s freedom of speech.
“They claim the reason they voted with the Democrats to table my censure resolution against Rashida Tlaib is bc her full blown support of Hamas, w/words and actions, is her ‘free speech’, yet they are unwilling to use Congress’s free speech, which is censure, to condemn her!” Greene wrote in a thread on X, formerly Twitter.
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In several tweets, the Georgia Republican called her colleagues “feckless” and “pathetic” while claiming that some of them shut down her resolution because she referred to an October 18 rally calling for a ceasefire as “an insurrection.”
Tlaib, the only Palestinian-American member of Congress, did not attend the protest, where hundreds of demonstrators were arrested by Capitol police, but did deliver remarks at a rally outside the Capitol.
Referencing her GOP defectors, Greene said: “These same ‘conservatives’ have never lifted a finger to help Jan6 defendants. They could care less that they are rotting in jail.”
She also said it “must be great to be a Democrat” because the conference stuck behind Tlaib and voted in unity, while Republicans split with their own party.
In another tweet, she said she wished she had “23 Republicans like Tommy Tubervilles in the House tonight,” nodding to the senator’s blockade of military nominees. Tuberville has refused to confirm any military promotions over the Pentagon’s abortion policy, even at the insistence of his fellow GOP senators.
Greene also called out Representatives Chip Roy and Thomas Massie on Thursday morning, tweeting at the Republicans directly.
“You voted to kick me out of the freedom caucus, but keep CNN wannabe Ken Buck and vaping groping Lauren Boebert and you voted with the Democrats to protect Terrorist Tlaib,” she said in response to Roy’s statement on his vote. “You hate Trump, certified Biden’s election, and could care less about J6 defendants being persecuted.”
Roy shot back, telling reporters that Greene should go “chase so-called Jewish space lasers if she wants to spend time on that sort of thing,” referencing the conspiracy theory promoted by Greene in the past. Greene responded, telling the Texas Republican to “shut up” and lambasting him as an establishment figure.
“Chip Roy’s career exist of working for politicians, working for campaigns for politicians, and being a politician himself,” she wrote.
Greene also responded to Massie, who said neither the protesters on January 6, 2021, nor the ones on October 18, 2023, were insurrectionists. She told the Kentucky Republican that the resolution was not about Tlaib’s freedom of speech but Congress’ freedom to “condemn another member’s actions and words.”
“Until we force Dems to live by their own rules, nothing will change and you know it,” she said.
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