On Tuesday, several Republican leaders added their own voices of criticism of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) for equating House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s draconian mask rules in the House chamber with the suffering European Jews faced during the Holocaust.
Greene’s remarks came last Thursday on The Water Cooler With David Brody, in response to a clip of Pelosi suggesting that unvaccinated House members be segregated from vaccinated members.
“They are selfishly a dangerment to other people, including staff people here,” Pelosi said of unvaccinated House members. “So, while we are hopeful … that we can reach a place where it is safe for people to be — what is this, the honor system? The honor system … as to whether somebody’s been vaccinated? Do you want them breathing in your face on the strength of their honor?”
After the clip was played, Greene minced no words: “This woman is mentally ill,” the congresswoman said of Pelosi, just prior to launching into the paragraph that made her a target of the cancel-culture mob once again.
“You know, we can look back in a time and history where people were told to wear a gold star. And they were definitely treated like second-class citizens, so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany,” Greene said. “This is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about.”
Greene then blasted Pelosi for hypocrisy, relating the story of how the Speaker flew in several House Members who were actively COVID-19 positive and created an enclosure for them in the House Chamber so that they could register their vote for the Speaker of the House which, ironically, turned out to be her.
“Nancy Pelosi flew in COVID positive members of Congress and then she built a little box up in the chamber, up there on the second floor, where she put these positive COVID members – by the way it wasn’t a completely closed off space, there was open air throughout the rest of the room – well, she brought in positive COVID members and exposed everyone in the entire building, and they traveled across the country spreading COVID. So, this is a woman that doesn’t care about people’s safety. This is a woman who is hyper-focused on her own power and control.”
The section with COVID positive members was necessary because Pelosi only had a razor-thin margin to retain her leadership role. But because of an admittedly ham-handed comparison of Pelosi’s mask restrictions to the Holocaust, Greene is being portrayed as the evil one.
While stopping short of calling for disciplinary measures against Greene, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) blasted her remarks. “Marjorie is wrong, and her intentional decision to compare the horrors of the Holocaust with wearing masks is appalling,” McCarthy said in a statement. “The fact that this needs to be stated today is deeply troubling.”
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell referred to Greene’s remarks as one of her “frequent outbursts that are absolutely outrageous and reprehensible,” but also said that any disciplinary action against her would have to come from the House.
New GOP House number three leader Elise Stefaniki (R-N.Y.) said that “equating mask wearing and vaccines to the Holocaust,” minimized “the most significant human atrocities ever committed.”
Pelosi herself responded that Greene’s comments were “so beyond reprehensible” that they should have “no place in our country.”
Representative Brad Schneider (D-Ill.) threatened Greene with censure and said that she needs to “change her rhetoric and behavior if she intends to remain a Member of the House.”
To her credit, Greene has not backed down, having already posted numerous tweets in defense of her statements.
Earlier today, she wrote: “The woke media is attacking me for being outspoken against vax discrimination & smearing me as anti-semitic to cover the truth that the #jihadSquad (Reps. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez (D-N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) openly supports Hamas terrorists. I wonder if GOP leadership would co-sponsor my bill to defund terrorists?
Greene — like Donald Trump — could, to appease the Establishment, take a class in politically-correct etiquette if she wants to fit in better in Washington, D.C. But do Americans really need more status-quo politicians “fitting in” in Washington?
