In related news Congresswomen's Boebrick;s chief of communications just quit citing her behavoir during the coup as the reason.

Yeah, she's from a very red district. It's in the northwest corner of the state. Real **** kicker country.

Taylor Green suspended from twitter for 12 hours, could not find in a seach what exactly she did to trigger this.

Exist.

Looks like a video about widespread voter fraud, and a post attacking the GA elections implementation manager about Dominion voting machines.

As an aside, she is also a no-planer.

If she is an Area-51 aliens believer then we may have a trifecta. And also it will mean she is not long for that chamber.

By-the-by, what IS the shortest term of office for a member of Congress?

My guess is negative. As in, a congressman was elected by didn't get sworn in because he died between the election and the start of the new term.

They elect the likes of Taylor Greene, Boebert, Tuberville, and Gohmert and they wonder why we think they're dumb?

Well colour me surprised!

I'm pretty sure someone got voted in AFTER they died.

Yup, I was right.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/...ll-got-elected

ETA: Although technically only 1 was voted to the national stage.

Of those who were actually seated, wouldn't you know that the record goes to the first woman Senator, Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia in 1922. She was seated for one day.

The Governor was planning on running as a candidate for Senate in a future election. Shortly before the election that year, the sitting Senator unexpectedly died. The Governor wanted to appoint someone who would not be a challenge to his candidacy. He appointed Felton, a suffragette, to gain support of women, who could now vote, after having spoke out against women's suffrage. It didn't work and he lost the election to Walter F. George.

Felton had not been seated because Congress had not been in session. When the Senate reconvened, instead of taking his seat, George allowed Felton to be sworn in for a day as a symbolic gesture.

Shortest for an elected Member of Congress was Homer V. M. Miller, also of Georgia, in 1871. He was elected in 1868, but Georgia did not meet the qualifications to restore Federal representation after the Civil War until 1871. By the time he was eligible to be seated, there were only 7 days left of his term.

Putting the "E" in ISF.

Wasn't one of the Apollo astronauts elected to office, but died before he was seated?


ETA: just found him - Jack Swigert

Miller is actually the shortest term elected Senator. The shortest term elected Member of Congress was Representative Effingham Lawrence of Louisiana in 1875. One day.

This one gets weird.

He ran in the 1872 election. That election was won by Jacob Hale Sypher. Lawrence later contested that election in court. That didn't get resolved until about two years later. By that time, he had lost the 1874 election. But the courts ruled that he had won the 1872 election. As a result of that court order and the congressional calendar, he was able to be seated for his 1873-1875 term. But there was only one day left.

ETA: Lawrence missed 2 of the 5 votes that day. He half-assed his one day in Congress.

Swigert was one of the Apollo 13 Astronauts...played by Kevin Bacon in the movie.

Hillbilly Barbie promoted bat crap crazy Parkland "false flag" theory.

I'd bet this idiot thinks there's a "war on Christmas", too.

She's isn't so much stepping in stinky farmyard manure herself so much as smearing it on all her GOP "friends" as well. If she doesn't learn to keep her mouth shut at inopportune times, her more worldly-wise party representatives are going to "arrange" for her to have a scandal and get dismissed somehow.

Speaking of putting the E in ISF: Evidence this has ever happened before?

There's been any number of "scandals" befall Representatives who have had to resign as a result.

Yes but you implied her colleagues would 'make it happen'. That's a different animal.

You are implying that I have inside information?? Eh, no.

I'm suggesting that her colleagues will not be particularly forthcoming in defending her, and may even be instrumental in helping her overboard. She isn't helping herself very much, and I'm not seeing a great mass of defending socials from her party comrades.

Greene now represents the views of a sizeable minority, perhaps the majority, of GOP voters so there is little appetite for getting rid of her.

In light of the last four years, I find it difficult to imagine the kind of scandal that would cause a GOP representative to resign or be dismissed. What used to be considered grifting or fraud is now de rigeur.

Look, just own your ******* sentence, all right? You misspoke, it's not what you meant, whatever. But don't act like you never said this:

Have we noted that she thinks the Marjorie Stoneman Douglas school massacre was a false-flag operation?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/qa...out&li=BBnb7Kz

Yeah, which comes as no surprise. I'm expecting something involving teh joos sooner rather than later.

Well, she’s gone and done it.

I suppose the mocking and derision she is inviting will be a small price to pay in exchange for the rubes paying her back a thousand fold in cold, hard cash.

She is a certifiable loony!

But lets not call her stupid.

Wow how did this delusional bitch get elected?

I never thought someone with such conspiracist street cred could get elected, but probably despite it. Doesn't seem to be doing anything worthwhile to uncover the world-shaking conspiracies she believes are real though. At least Donald Trump wasted tons of tax payer and donor money on a few of his conspiracy theories.

We're talking rural Georgia. Nuff said.

Never been to the rural South ,have you?

And from the US House of Representives, another exciting game of "Spot The Loony"...

Touchy or what. :rolleyes:

I didn't misspeak. You read it wrong. Stop thinking of it like an American gangster story and it makes sense.

There, we can both play this game.

I take your point. After Trump (and how good is it to say that!), the scale and/or rankness of scandal would have to be exceptionally gross to sway some fellow Republicans.

Running unopposed after her Democratic rival fell afoul of divorce and residency requirements didn't hurt either.

Excluding those who were deceased, and thus (surprisingly) unable to technically hold office the record is one day (Effingham Lawrence). That incident is complicated and involves a contested election. More recently Kwanza Hall served for 31 days.

Not only does she promote the CT that the Parkland shooting was a false flag, she thinks Sandy Hook was fake as well, and she's being called on it by survivors and the parents of victims of both shootings.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...gn=wp_national

The Parkland chapter of March for Our Lives called Greene a “coward.”

“The shooting at our school was real. Real kids died and our community is still grieving today. You should be ashamed of yourself and resign from congress,” the organization tweeted. “Conspiracy theorists don’t deserve a seat in the people’s house.”

David Hogg, the activist and co-founder of March for Our Lives, vowed to organize against Greene if she did not apologize for the comments.

“I have one message for @RepMTG,” tweeted Hogg, a Parkland survivor. “Apologize Now or continue to spread the conspiracies and we will be sure to make the next two years of your life not only your last in Congress but a living hell as well.”

This young man has the ear of some pretty powerful people as well as the mainstream media, and he's good at organizing effective protest campaigns. The pressure could soon be coming on this QNut to get out of the house.

Not wanting to be left behind in the stupid contest. Boebrick has intorudced a measure repealing Biden's Mask Mandate.
The Republican war on science continues.

Her Dem opponent didn't stand a chance of winning as that district is a deeply red district. The fact that MT-G could win the primary against Cowan, a neurosurgeon who was just as much a Trumper and Bible thumper as any "true Patriot" could want tells you something.

Cowan campaign website statement:

“We need a representative in Washington with the backbone to stand up to deranged Democrats and weak Republicans. In Congress, I’ll fight beside President Donald J. Trump to protect our values and end the liberal assault on our God-given rights.”