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CatWoman

(79,295 posts)
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 03:35 PM Oct 2021

Looks like MTG got into it with Raskin and Liz Cheney yesterday

(CNN)Drama on the House floor developed when Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confronted Reps. Jamie Raskin and Liz Cheney as the House was voting on the criminal contempt resolution against Steve Bannon.

The conversation with Greene devolved to "Jewish space lasers" and the Georgia Republican accusing Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, of not investigating the violence of Black Lives Matter protests.

Video of the House floor documents Greene approaching Raskin and Cheney. Greene waves her hands in the air, and at one point Cheney points her finger in the air back at Greene before turning her back. A row of seats separated the three for the majority of the time.

Cheney responded to Greene by saying she was a "joke" and referred to a previous Greene comment about Jewish space lasers, per source familiar with the interaction.

"I never said that!" Greene yelled back at Cheney. "You're done. You're a joke, Liz. Your party rejected you." As Greene walked away from the pair, she suggested: "Why don't you go investigate something that matters to the American people?"

After the altercation, Raskin told reporters, "She started screaming at Liz."

Raskin supplied more details after the fact, stating that Greene was asking him to investigate the violence surrounding Black Lives Matter protests.

"What she said to me was, 'When are you going to do your investigation of the violence surrounding Black Lives Matter?' And I said, 'Like with Kyle Rittenhouse who went and killed two Black Lives Matter protesters? I'm sure there will be an opportunity for us to get to that,'" Raskin said. "And then, you know, it degenerated it from there as you can imagine."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/21/politics/greene-cheney-raskin/index.html




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Looks like MTG got into it with Raskin and Liz Cheney yesterday (Original Post) CatWoman Oct 2021 OP
MTG seems more unhinged than usual. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #1
Maybe she had some calls or meetings w Bannon TheRealNorth Oct 2021 #6
I think you nailed it. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #10
All the republicans bamagal62 Oct 2021 #2
Jewish Space Lasers sounds like a Mel Brooks comedy. sarcasmo Oct 2021 #3
SPACE BALLS!!!! CatWoman Oct 2021 #5
I thought of this skit from "History of the World Part 1" TheRealNorth Oct 2021 #8
Cheney and Raskin aka JustAnotherGen Oct 2021 #4
Jeez ... Delphinus Oct 2021 #7
Greene is too stupid to realize how vastly... 3catwoman3 Oct 2021 #9
Just as fish don't see the water they swim in ... Straw Man Oct 2021 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author ExTex Oct 2021 #12
Why is this idiot always looking for attention? Catherine Vincent Oct 2021 #13
Ask her where she was on the evening of Jan 5. Grasswire2 Oct 2021 #14
It's way past time to expel her. How many of these incidents ecstatic Oct 2021 #15

bamagal62

(3,255 posts)
2. All the republicans
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 03:44 PM
Oct 2021

Seem to know how to do is scream the loudest. They think the louder they scream, the more right they are. Looney tunes.

Straw Man

(6,623 posts)
11. Just as fish don't see the water they swim in ...
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 04:03 PM
Oct 2021

... the truly stupid are unaware of their stupidity. It comes with the territory.

Response to CatWoman (Original post)

ecstatic

(32,685 posts)
15. It's way past time to expel her. How many of these incidents
Fri Oct 22, 2021, 06:14 PM
Oct 2021

will be tolerated? Congress is not a zoo. She's harassing her colleagues at work. Where else is this shit allowed? Who's going to have to be sued over this toxic workplace?

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