How can it be that Marjorie Taylor Green is sounding like the last sane person in Congress.
If you didn’t catch her interview Thursday on CNN, you missed seeing a politician who rather than weave and bob and prevaricate simply stood on her principles and condemned both parties for the government shutdown.
She took specific aim at the leaders of her own party, Mike* and John*. It was a refreshing change from the usual dribble emanating from Capitol Hill.
As things look now, she and her constituents (who are worried about the cost of health insurance, she says) may be the best hope to force those Congressional leaders to reopen the government before the holidays kick in.
In that regard, the administration is cutting ten percent of the flights at the busiest U.S. airports today, which will affect people who presumably have more political clout than the people struggling to find enough food to eat.
To date, it’s the poorest among us who have borne the brunt of the shutdown’s impacts, but that may be about to change. And since out of every political crisis, new leaders tend to emerge, we may need to prepare ourselves for an M.T.G. moment.
*Speaker of the House Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune.
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