Republicans should have sidelined Greene

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy should have taken the lead in removing Greene from her posts — mainly because she’s unfit to hold them but also because she’s harming her fellow Republicans. 

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February 9, 2021 - 9:48 AM

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia. Photo by (Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to remove Georgia’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, a controversial and inflammatory Republican freshman, from her committee assignments. The vote was largely along party lines, although a handful of Republicans joined the Democratic majority. It’s an extreme measure, advocates of the move admit — but Taylor Greene, they insist, is an extreme case.

Indeed she is, and this remedy is justified. But it would have been far better administered by her own party. If Democrats take it upon themselves to punish outrageous Republicans, and vice…

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