So Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) is resigning from Congress. And yes, I am taking credit for it.
In case you’re wondering why she chose to wait until Jan. 5 rather than storm out now, it’s because Greene, age 51, wants her Congressional pension. According to Newsweek, “Members of the Federal Employees Retirement System qualify for a full, deferred pension upon turning 62 if they’ve completed at least five years of service.”
How nice for her.
But hey, she earned it. Nevermind that the entire Republican Party treats public employees like teachers and firefighters who get pensions like greedy thieves.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like Greene is going to fade into the obscurity she deserves. People are even talking about a presidential run. The idea is pure lunacy, but then again, we’ve elected Trump twice. So I wouldn’t count her, or America’s ability to continue to make very bad choices, out.
Greene’s departure means the Republican majority in the U.S. house will shrink, which I’m definitely not sad about. A special election will be called by Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Greene’s seat will likely be won by another Republican as her Congressional district is very red.
But who the hell knows? Politics is in a very weird place right now. The majority of the country thinks that Trump and the Republicans are doing a very bad job at pretty much everything (and that is, indeed, correct). This is good for Democrats (see the Nov. 4, 2025 election where Democrats swept a bunch of elections).
But this is the same Democratic Party that had the lowest approval rating in decades just a few months ago. So let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
The 2026 midterms are a BFD. Republicans are rightly scared that they are going to lose their majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. Greene, by the way, thinks they will.
“Now that House members are switching gears into campaign mode and will be fighting for their lives, our legislative majority has been mostly wasted,” Greene posted on social media. “Our best shot was the first 6-9 months. And when Republicans likely lose the midterms it will become total and complete political war and gridlock once again.”
Political war and gridlock? Uh, like what the Republican majority has now? This Congress has done jack shit in terms of passing legislation. Now, the Trump Administration has been terribly productive. Project 2025? Trump has already gotten half of it done. Granted, none of those things in it are good and most of them hurt the majority of Americans, but they’ve definitely got the doing-evil-shit machine’s pedal to the metal.
Republicans absolutely deserve to lose their majorities. They’ve been running the country using nothing but cruelty and spite, and while that certainly appeals to the MAGA base, the rest of the country thinks it sucks.
Food costs more. Healthcare costs are going up. The Secretary of Education is in the process of destroying the Department of Education, which will likely decimate support for special education and make it impossible for students who have had their civil rights violated to get redress. The Health and Human Services Secretary is working overtime to sew distrust in vaccines and bring back the measles. The Secretary of Defense is hell-bent on making the military his personal mercenary army.
The fact is, people want to eat. They want to be able to afford medicine and housing. They don’t want to go to war. And while there are way too many people in this country who would, most people don’t want to trade these things for Mexican immigrants being shoved into unmarked vans by masked men at their local Home Depot or transgender people being terrorized and erased from every facet of life.
It’s the whole, “I didn’t think the Eating People’s Faces Party would eat MY face!” thing. It’s clear that things like racism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia are big, big problems in this country. Bigger than many people had ever considered. And it’s going to take a LOT of work to change that.
If, that is, the will exists to do that work. It’s going to take a hell of a lot more than “Vote Blue no matter who.” A Democratic majority will without a doubt do far less to hurt the country.
But I have yet to see clear evidence that Democrats have that will. And not hurting isn’t the same as healing.