As Republicans and Democrats booed her loudly Wednesday when she called a snap vote on the House floor to oust Speaker Mike Johnson, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, paused briefly to narrate the drama to viewers back home. 'This is the uniparty, for the American people watching,' Ms. Greene sneered, peering over her glasses at her colleagues like a disappointed schoolteacher.
The move buoyed Mr. Johnson, confirming his status as the leader of an unlikely bipartisan governing coalition in the House that Ms. Greene considers the ultimate enemy. And it isolated Ms. Greene on Capitol Hill, putting her back where she was when she arrived in Washington three years ago: a provocateur and subject of derision who appears to revel in causing huge headaches for her colleagues.
Hopefully, this is the end of the personality politics and the frivolous character assassination that has defined the 118th Congress, Mr. Johnson said after the vote. 'The word hopefully was doing a lot of work.' If Ms. Greene's goal in Congress was to chair a powerful committee or to build up political capital to drive major policy initiatives, this all would constitute a major problem for her.
But those have never been the incentives that have driven the gentle lady from Georgia, whose congressional career has been defined by delighting her base and stoking anger on the right more than legislative achievement or political pragmatism.
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