{"id":129321,"date":"2024-04-26T02:23:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129321"},"modified":"2024-04-26T02:23:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T02:23:16","slug":"the-right-starts-to-reckon-with-its-marjorie-taylor-greene-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=129321","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The right starts to reckon with its Marjorie Taylor Greene problem&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2024\/04\/24\/greene-trump-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Sen. Thom Tillis\u2019s (R-N.C.) comments to CNN on Tuesday were particularly biting. Amid Greene\u2019s efforts to oust McCarthy\u2019s successor, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Tillis called her a \u201cwaste of time\u201d and a \u201chorrible leader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cShe is dragging our brand down,\u201d Tillis said. \u201cShe \u2014 not the Democrats \u2014 are the biggest risk to us getting back to a majority.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Tillis added, \u201cI\u2019m embarrassed to have actually lived geographically in her district at one time before she was there.\u201d&#8230;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">The tenor of Fox News\u2019s other coverage of Greene has also been skeptical lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Last month, Fox host Laura Ingraham played a clip of Greene talking about China buying up U.S. farmland and quipped: \u201cI\u2019m losing that caboose of thought there.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1768052823755792717\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">God bless her<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">On Sunday, Greene was even treated to a skeptical interview from usual MAGA booster Maria Bartiromo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">\u201cHow is this leading to reelecting President Trump? How is this leading to the American people believing that the Republicans can govern?\u201d Bartiromo asked Greene, adding later: \u201cI guess what I\u2019m saying is, how does this help keeping a majority in the House? How does this help by electing your candidate \u2014 you know, your candidate?\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Sen. Thom Tillis\u2019s (R-N.C.) comments to CNN on Tuesday were particularly biting. Amid Greene\u2019s efforts to oust McCarthy\u2019s successor, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Tillis called her a \u201cwaste of time\u201d and a \u201chorrible leader.\u201d \u201cShe is dragging our brand down,\u201d Tillis said. \u201cShe \u2014 not the Democrats \u2014 are the biggest risk to us&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129322,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129321\/revisions\/129322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}