Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar are operating free of consequences.

[Nevilledog]

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Andrew Solender
@AndrewSolender
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar are operating free of consequences.

Having lost their committee assignments, and needing nothing from party leaders, they're essentially untouchable, GOP aides and lawmakers tell @Axios.

w/ @jonathanvswan & @lachlan
Photo illustration of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) casting shadows with fingers held up
axios.com
The GOP’s untouchables: Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar
Greene and Gosar are safe in the knowledge that there's nothing left for leadership to take from them.
6:37 PM · Mar 2, 2022

https://www.axios.com/gops-untouchable-marjorie-taylor-greene-paul-gosar-3641b09b-1728-40a2-8366-e592378109e0.html

Far-right Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) are untouchable inside the House Republican conference.

Why it matters: Greene and Gosar can attend as many white supremacist conferences as their hearts desire, safe in the knowledge there's nothing they need from leadership — and nothing left for leadership to take from them.

* They've already been stripped of their committees. They have zero need or interest in leadership's endorsements or money. And their power actually comes from offending Republican leadership in Washington.
* "They literally have nothing tangible [to punish them] in terms of the traditional congressional levers," a GOP leadership source told Axios.

Behind the scenes: Greene has long gloated she's immune to punishment by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. That's true even after she and Gosar appeared at a gathering of white nationalists hosted by the outspoken Holocaust denier, antisemitic, homophobic and racist activist Nick Fuentes.

When Donald Trump was running for president in 2016, he famously boasted he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters."

Greene made her own version of that statement, bragging during a rally in Texas last month that "Kevin can't do anything about me."

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[SoCalDavidS]

1. Pretty Much The Way Things Work In America These Days

Shithole Country.

[sheshe2]

2. There are still the voters.

[ecstatic]

3. A very hostile, disgusting work place

I guess regular EEOC laws don't apply to Congress members.

[Tommymac]

5. .

[alwaysinasnit]

4. An impressive pair of freeloaders; collecting paychecks and receiving other compensation

without even having to show up. Don't that beat all.

[Mr.Bill]

6. If enough republicans turn against them,

they can be expelled. Probably won't happen, but there could be consequences if they go too far overboard.

[Hoyt]

7. It will be hard to dislodge MTG soon. Her district is 80+% trump.

Someone will beat her at some point, but could be awhile.

Fortunately — or unfortunately in this case — that’s how democracy works.

[ThoughtCriminal]

8. I live in Gosar's District

It does not look like his constituents are going to hold him accountable.

[Nevilledog]

9. Ditto & Ditto

Lots of assholes here.