Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., leaves the Capitol in Washington after attempting to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., from his post on May 8, 2024. Although I usually find legislative processes to be a good remedy for insomnia, I followed the attempt by the often entertaining — especially when she doesn’t intend to be — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to revive the Hastert rule until it crashed and burned.
Although Johnson’s conservatism is solid enough to cause alarm in Democratic circles, Greene has found him not right-wing enough. His “rule,” which was never a formal rule, as much as Republicans often have followed it like one, means no legislation can be voted on without support from a majority of the House majority. That “majority of the majority” works for you if you hold the majority, which Republican, at present, do not.
But those of us who share the pragmatic belief that Congress should seek ways to find common ground and “get things done” could derive hope in Greene’s failed lurch toward autocracy.
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