I’m still not sure I understand how this works but it does sound like the whole Marjorie Taylor Greene outburst may have been a set-up:
The following day, Ocasio-Cortez took to X (formerly Twitter) to break down how Greene’s outburst overshadowed—and aided—what Ocasio-Cortez describes as a “microcosm of what authoritarians do on a larger scale.”
“AFTER the Republican Chair and GOP members broke official House protocol to allow MTG’s horrific opening silo of rhetoric, they THEN made another change to dispense with the legislative process,” Ocasio-Cortez said on X (formerly Twitter). “THAT part is not getting enough attention.”
In a move Ocasio-Cortez described as “highly unusual and still unclear to me how legitimate it was,” the GOP-led committee vacated both the typical amendment process and legislative debate that follows, moving directly to vote on their own text without allowing for amendments or objections to be heard.
“That’s why this stuff isn’t just all-sides chaos, or mere distraction, or a pox on everyone’s house,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. “They WANT you to think this was some random devolution of conduct instead of a structured GOP outcome. We must understand who and what actions created the situation. It matters.”
Thanks to MTG’s meltdown, the vote to initiate contempt proceedings against Garland was successful.
If it wasn’t a set-up, they sure seem to have taken advantage of Greene’s non-sequitor to ram through the contempt vote.
I also heard that there was quite a bit of drinking going on. Marbge is rumored to be in her cups frequently and apparently the clown show that made the pilgrimage to Dear Leader’s trial on Thursday did quite a bit of tippling on the plane back home. So who knows?
But we do know that a number of the people on the committee who refused to comply with subpoenas in the last congress voted to hold the Attorney General in contempt for only agreeing to release a transcript of the president’s testimony instead of the recording.