Republicans Go Greene
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Vol. 10, No. 29
Cancel Her: The House votes today on whether to strip Georgia freshman Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of her committee assignments for espousing conspiracy theories and calling for the execution of Democratic politicians before she was elected.
It’s a test for Republicans whether they will separate themselves from insanity or say, “Yes, we’re the party of crazy.” Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy has already taken Greene to the woodshed for a talk and issued a statement later saying, “I condemn those comments unequivocally. I condemned them in the past and continue to condemn them today.”
Greene has bought into the QAnon theory that high level Democrats run a pedophilia ring and that and some of the gun massacres in recent years have been planned, staged, or faked for political purposes. She has actually said there’s no evidence that a plane crashed into the Pentagon during the 9/11 attacks and that a Jewish-operated space laser started a California wildfire.
McCarthy told reporters yesterday that Greene has said in private “that she was wrong” and that she was “denouncing Q-on, I don’t know if I say it right I don’t even know what it is.” Greene has not renounced her beliefs in public and lets not even get into the issue of why at this point McCarthy claims he doesn’t know what QAnon is.
The Republicans declined to act on their own, leaving it to the Democrats to bust Greene. What the Republicans also did was spend hours debating whether to punish Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the #3 Republican in the House, for voting to impeach Donald Trump.
Show the Money: President Biden said he would not agree to reduce the $1,400 direct stimulus checks in his $1.9 trillion economic bill, but that he would consider targeting the money more toward lower-income people as Republicans have proposed.
“We can’t walk away from an additional $1,400 in direct checks, because people need it,” Biden told House Democrats on a conference call, The NY Times reports. He said, “I’m not going to start my administration by breaking a promise to people.”
The vast majority of Americans, — and nearly two-thirds of Republicans — support Biden’s $1,400 stimulus checks and his full $1.9 trillion, according to a new poll from Quinnipiac University.
Republican leaders have proposed a $618 billion bill, but Biden has insisted he’s sticking to the big money. The Times reports that Biden was willing to make some compromises, but cutting his bill by more than half was “not in the cards.”
Fatal Fire: The FBI has identified the gunman in Tuesday’s killing of two agents during a raid at dawn. David Lee Huber, 55, was the target of a child-porn search warrant. He spotted the agents coming with his doorbell camera and opened fire through the walls with an assault rifle.
Huber killed himself.
He killed agents Daniel Alfin, 36, and Laura Schwartzenberger, 43, and wounded three others. The two agents had worked for years investigating child pornography and sex trafficking in South Florida.
Final Salute: The remains of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was killed in the Capitol insurrection, lay in honor yesterday under the Capitol Rotunda for a memorial service. Sicknick is only the fifth private citizen to be granted such distinction.
Viral News: So far, 27.5 million Americans have been given at least their first vaccination shot against the coronavirus, which is less than a quarter of the people given priority and just 8.3% of the total population.
New cases are down 30 percent over the past two weeks, but deaths are still high, another 3,922 in the past 24 hours bringing the total to 450,823.
A Word for It: In a spectacular fall from grace, country music star Morgan Wallen was suspended by his record label dumped from the playlist by hundreds of radio stations after he was caught on camera saying the n-word. The Academy of Country Music said he will not be eligible for its upcoming awards show.
A neighbor irritated with Wallen and friends making noise this past weekend recorded what was happening including Wallen using the racial slur. TMZ posted the video and that was it for Wallen.
The Bulletin Board: An anchor for the ultra-right-wing Newsmax television network walked off the set rather than deal with My Pillow founder Mike Lindell rant on about election fraud no one has been able to prove. — Canada listed the white supremacist Proud Boys as a terrorist organization, putting them in company with the Islamic State and Al-Qaida. — Archeologists outside Alexandria, Egypt, found a mummy with a golden tongue inside the mouth. They suspect it was placed to help the dead person speak in the afterlife.
The Obit Page: Rennie Davis, the antiwar activist and member of the infamous Chicago Seven who a member of the Chicago Seven who were arrested and convicted of inciting riots during 1968 Democratic Convention, has died at age 79.
Davis, along with Tom Hayden, Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, and several others were for a time the faces of the effort to stop America’s war in Vietnam. Their story and a portrayal of the riotously disrupted trial, were told in the recent Aaron Sorkin film “The Trial of the Chicago 7.”
Davis later fell into the New Age of spiritualism and mysticism, becoming the American promoter for the Guru Maharaj Ji, the 15-year-old Indian with millions of followers around the world who claimed to be a “perfect master.”
Safe at Home: The Palm Beach town attorney has ruled that it’s legal for former President Trump to live full time in his Mar-a-Lago club. At least one of Trump’s neighbors wants to enforce an agreement that club members would not live there full time. When Trump converted the old estate to a club in 1993 his lawyers agreed no one would ever live there. Evidently the town failed to get it in writing.
Trump is, however, losing the helipad he was allowed to have while he was president.
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