The Situation Room: Marjorie Taylor Greene Blames Republican Leaders For Government Shutdown

"Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) joins CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown to discuss the government shutdown." 

Source:CNN talking to U.S. Representative Marjorie T. Greene (MAGA, Georgia) about President Donald J. Trump (MAGA, Florida)

From CNN

I think this quote right here pretty much sums up Marjorie T. Green's political career right now: 

"I'm 1 of those who gets real tired of political drama when it's not actually solving the problem". 

She's not saying she's against "political drama". Just when it's not solving whatever perceived problem that's she trying to solve. That would be a fair interpretation of the Representative's quote there. 

So, unlike CNN, or at least CNN anchors Wolf (I should've retired 10 years ago) Blitzer and Pamela Brown, I'm not buying Marjorie T. Greene's little political show here. She was hardcore MAGA from day 1 when she elected to the U.S. House 5 years ago. She tried to have Speaker Mike Johnson removed from office 18 months ago, because he agreed to the Senate short-term funding bill back then and he didn't shut down the government back then. 

Up until 3 days ago, perhaps a week, you wouldn't find a more loyal MAGA political soldier to Donald J. Trump, then Majorie T. Greene. There's something else going on here that I'm going to get into. 

So 3-6 months ago, Representative Greene was considering a run for either Governor of Georgia, where Brian Kemp is term limited there, or running for U.S. Senate against Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff. But this is what Senator Kevin Cramer (Republican, North Dakota) said about MTG running for Senate from Georgia: 

“We need to have the absolute best candidate, and that includes electability. It’s very difficult to apply a formula for a very gerrymandered, very conservative congressional district into a statewide election with as much diversity as Georgia has. That is a swing state that’s pretty independent-minded,”

From The Hill

Representative Greene was talked out of not running for U.S. Senate, by the Senate Republican Leadership. And for good reason: Georgia is sort of like for the Republican Party, what Virginia is now for the Democratic Party. It's a state where a mainstream Republican should win statewide there, assuming they don't have a lot of ethical baggage. But you put a far-right candidate, like an MTG there and that state becomes very competitive, if the Democrat is a mainstream candidate and not a Socialist and some left-wing cultural warrior, identity politics, candidate. 

Representative Green's own official reasoning for not running for Governor of Georgia for 2026, is: 

 “A very established men only Republican firm that is overseeing the state’s slow slide from red to blue.

The ‘I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine wheeling and dealing at the hunting clubs and country clubs does not reflect the sentiment and issues of the vast majority of Georgia voters". 

From Politico

That was MTG's response to the Georgia Republican Party for declining to endorse her potential bid for Governor of Georgia, for next year. 

You can easily get into trouble and even put your own credibility at stake, when you question the motives of people, while you are not able to prove them, especially when it comes to politicians. But MTG  has been in the House of Representatives for almost 5 years. I don't think she wants to still be there 10-15 years from now. 

MTG represents 1 of the reddest, most Republican gerrymandered, MAGA, House districts in the country. She obviously wants more for her political career than to represent 700,000 people who at times perhaps sound even crazier than her: 

Who think that "Jewish space laser" theories are real

 That Joe Biden stole the 2020 election

That America is being destroyed from within by Jews and Latinos, Jewish bankers, etc... 

That gay people want to eliminate straight people. 

And unfortunately I could go when it comes to whacked-out, far-right, MAGA conspiracy theories in this country.

But for someone like a Marjorie Taylor Greene to ever be able to represent anything other than a gerrymandered, MAGA district, in rural Georgia, to getting elected in a big, diverse state like Georgia, (11 million people) she is going to have to drop her political escaped mental patient routine and sound and act like a mainstream Republican. You know, like a Conservative (for example) and be able to compete in the parts of Georgia where most of its residents live, which is the Atlanta metro area and the big counties there, as well as Savannah.  The parts of Georgia that are very urban and suburban, even blue. 

Georgia is not Mississippi. (Duh!!!) You can't win statewide in Georgia as a Republican, with just Anglo-Saxon-Protestant, blue-collar, rural voters. You have to compete and win in the cities as well. This is what Marjorie Taylor Green's call to political sanity campaign is really about: her winning Georgia. 

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