'Call her bluff': WSJ urges Speaker Johnson to put Marjorie Taylor Greene in a corner
Calling her "Rep. Mayhem," the opinion page editors of the conservative Wall Street Journal urged House Speaker Michael Johnson (R-LA) to proceed with running the country's business as he sees fit and ignore Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene's latest tantrum.
In a scorching editorial, the editors pointed to Taylor Gtreene's threat to oust Johnson if he doesn't toe the line when it comes to what she wants to do and stated it is time for the putative GOP leader to stand up to her and similar "vandals" in the Republican Party caucus.
According to the editors, Johnson did the rational thing by forcing through a budget bill to keep the government funded and the Georgia Republican is only interested in creating "chaos" and drawing attention to herself.
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"Politics isn’t the art of the impossible, but Ms. Greene and her crew of vandals prefer to scream and throw soup at the walls, like those climate-change protesters who think their ludicrous gestures are accomplishing something," they wrote. "They have no strategy for achieving the conservative victories they claim to want, beyond shutting down the government and shouting for the cameras that everyone else is a sellout."
Pointing to the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) by a group of similarly disaffected conservatives, the editors suggested Taylor Greene may be able to force a vote only to find out the hard way that her GOP colleagues don't want to suffer through that again — particularly in a pivotal election year.
"After the weeks of tumult last fall following Mr. McCarthy’s removal, even Ms. Greene’s putative allies might be skeptical. Is this the vision for GOP governance that House Republicans want to offer in an election year?" they asked before bluntly stating, "If Mr. Johnson isn’t conservative enough to succeed as Speaker, who would be? Call her bluff."
You can read the entire editorial here.