Americans Reacted With Pure Horror After Speaker Kevin McCarthy Delegated His Power To Marjorie Taylor Greene, Appointed Her As “Speaker Pro Tempore”

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In case you missed it, newly-appointed, controversy-ridden Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy made quite a public spectacle out of apparently rewarding equally controversial Georgia Republican House Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene for her blindly devout loyalty to him when he officially appointed the QAnon congresswoman as his House Speaker understudy recently.

From the House floor, House Reading Clerk Susan Cole recited prepared remarks from Speaker McCarthy to the House of Representatives:

The Speaker’s Rooms, Washington, DC, March 8th, 2023. I hereby appoint the Honorable Marjorie Taylor Greene to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, Kevin McCarthy, speaker of the House of Representatives.”

One year ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke at a conference run by well-known white supremacists.

Today, Kevin McCarthy gave her the Speaker’s gavel.

MAGA extremism is the Republican mainstream. pic.twitter.com/T7nzuNlam4

— Katherine Clark (@WhipKClark) March 8, 2023

The Speaker pro tempore position is described as a delegation of the Speaker’s “powers to a member of the House to act as speaker pro tempore and to preside over the House in the speaker’s absence; when this has occurred the delegation has always been to a member of the same party.”

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Marjorie unsurprisingly made quite the show out of making her way to the Speaker podium and giving her newly-acquired gavel a good slam before going on to declare to the House, following Cole’s remarks:

Pursuant to the order of the House of January 9th, 2023, the chair will now recognize members from the list submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The Chair will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties and each Member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to 5 minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m.”

Suffice it to say, social media users were absolutely horrified by this pandering move on McCarthy’s part:

Frankly, we knew McCarthy’s speakership would be a clown show, at best, but this honestly exceeds all expectations.

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Andrea Thompson
Andrea has written political opinion stories for over a decade with a passion for center-left policies. Andrea is no longer a writer at Political Tribune and her X account is here: https://x.com/theliberalmommy

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