Stand Down, MTG!

As most Republicans know, the initials MTG stand for Marjorie Taylor Greene, the conservative firebrand who has represented Georgia’s 14th congressional district since 2021. A staunch supporter of former President Donald Trump who fought hard to decertify Georgia’s 16 electoral votes after the 2020 election, Greene also sought to impeach President Joe Biden for “abuse of power” shortly after his inauguration.

For good, better, or worse, MTG speaks her mind. In some cases, it is refreshing. In others, I wish she would shut her pie hole.

Before you hit the unsubscribe button, please let me explain.

The presidential election scheduled for November 5, 2024, will determine not only who occupies the Oval Office for the next four years, but also whether America itself sinks or swims. As Joe Biden is fond of saying, “no joke, that not hyperbole.”

If somehow Joseph Robinette Biden is re-elected (or reappointed, depending on your position on the 2020 election), I don’t know whether the United States can survive… at least not as we have known and loved her for the past 248 years. He is simply that corrupt and that incompetent. He is also that much of a puppet of the Progressive Wing of the Democrat Party, which seemingly wields all the power these days.

Whereas I have had my issues with President Trump’s personal behavior in the past, I have always supported his policies. And so, since he is the presumptive nominee of my party, I will support him 100% because he is America’s last, best, and perhaps only hope of averting political, social, and economic disaster.

Which brings me back to MTG. As Dan Bongino said on his radio show last week, the Republican Party must be unified this fall and cannot afford a single distraction. Jobs #1, #2, and #3 are to elect Donald Trump as the 47th President of the United States. And so, Marjorie Taylor Greene’s misguided attempt to depose House Speaker Mike Johnson is the last thing the GOP needs at this stage of the game.

I am a strong supporter of Speaker Johnson, a devout Christian who is doing his very best with the hand he has been dealt: a single seat majority, a Democrat Senate, and a Democrat President. In the words of former Speaker Newt Gingrich, Johnson has been handed “the most difficult speakership since the Civil War.” Gingrich, a conservative icon, went on to say that “Mike Johnson is trying to lead on principle in a terribly divisive time. He doesn’t have a real majority. He has a technical majority for the purpose of organizing committees and theoretically controlling the flow of legislation, but he doesn’t have a working majority on the Rules Committee. He doesn’t have an ability to deliver 218 votes for virtually anything.”

But Speaker Gingrich didn’t stop there. “He has 30 or 40 members who ideologically wake up every morning knowing that they’re gonna vote no – they’re not sure what the issue is, but they know they’re going to vote no. And then he’s got this last 30 or 40 [members] who need to do something to go on TV and send out fundraising emails, and they don’t frankly care if they screw up our party or the country, if that’s what it takes for them to be so important. So he has an enormously complicated job.”

Here is how Speaker Johnson describes his current job: “I feel like a triage nurse on the battlefield. They wheel a bloody body in and yell, ‘Stop the bleeding!’ And I will, and then turn around and there’s another bloody body.”

One of those bloody bodies demanding immediate attention is MTG’s, who threatened Johnson just two days before the House reconvened on May 1st, saying “His days as Speaker are numbered.” And those aren’t just idle words, because Greene plans to introduce a measure this week to vacate the Speaker’s position, which would throw the GOP caucus into disharmony and disarray at the exact time when it needs to be working together and focusing almost exclusively on the general election.

Dan Bongino and I both agree. The Republican Party needs to keep its collective eye on the ball, which is November 5th, and the prize, which is the Presidency and both Houses of Congress. Nothing else matters… and everything else is a distraction that could take the GOP down with it.

This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver a Republican landslide so large that it creates a conservative mandate for the next decade or more. Let’s not screw things up because of an intra-party squabble.

In my opinion and Dan’s, MTG needs to stand down on the issue of Mike Johnson’s speakership.