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Didn't see this coming: Marjorie Taylor Green resigns

 https://www.foxnews.com/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-announces-resignation-from-congress-after-president-trump-withdraws-endorsement

Most people will not care, but she is my Congresswoman, so I do.  

Her speech is interesting, although self-aggrandizing. She wants us to feel sorry for her being away from her family while being in Congress. Sorry, what did she expect? She doesn't get points there. Everyone does it. It's almost like she ran for Congress without knowing the job. 

Her antics have sometimes been an embarrassment. 

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/21/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-resign-in-january

The reasoning: She doesn't want to lose her election because Trump is going to primary her, so she quits. I guess we'll have a quickie election. Who will it be? I'm sure the party leaders has someone in mind. They aren't happy with her anyway. My son worked with leaders in the carpet industry here and that was clear. There was a billboard here in Dalton asking her to resign years ago. 

However, there are some bits of truth in her speech, which comes across rational but underneath is not. Trump turned on her. She was hoisted on her own petard, as they say. She rode his coat tails until he didn't like something she did (mostly calling for the Epstein files to be released), and he betrayed her. Like she didn't see that as an option. He had already done it to others. Like the Niemoller quote, "First, Trump came for the ...., and I said nothing because I was not ....."

No one is safe from Trump's depredations and tyranny.

If I were younger, I would run! I have a slogan for my Hispanic constituents: Me llamo Barbara, y no so loca. 



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