Rep. Al Green Is a Hero
And ten Democrats joined with Republicans to censure him. WTAF?
We recorded a new podcast yesterday. We talked about that speech to a joint session of Congress that was definitely NOT a State of the Union and more of a 110-minute festival of grievances and lies. We talked about the optics of an opposition party that is not being SEEN fighting for the people who elected them…
…with a few notable exceptions. Especially Representative Al Green of Texas, who pushed back on the lies about Medicaid and how the regime is destroying it. Speaker Johnson rewarded Rep. Green’s Good Trouble by ejecting him from the chamber.
During the podcast, we called Al Green a hero.
Today, he was censured by the full House by a vote of 224-198 - including ten Democrats who joined with all the Republicans:
Ami Bera (California)
Ed Case (Hawaii)
Jim Costa (California)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Jim Himes (Connecticut)
.Chrissy Houlahan (Pennsylvania)
Marcy Kaptur (Ohio)
Jared Moskowitz (Florida)
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Washington)
Tom Suozzi, (New York)
I used to be a big believer in norms. A few years ago, I was pretty tolerant of Democrats in purple districts choosing to demonstrate how moderate they are. But that was before the Republicans destroyed all those norms and made it obvious that they will stop at nothing to dismantle all of the laws and institutions that have made this country a land of opportunity for most of us.
This vote is especially galling because Rep. Green’s protest was nothing compared to the feral disrespect that GOP representatives like Lauren Boebert and Marjorie Taylor Green showed to President Biden - and none of them were subjected to a censure vote.
This just adds to the general frustration we are feeling with leaders of an opposition who still don’t appear to understand the gravity of the situation we are all in. And we spent a good deal of the hour talking about that in this week’s podcast.
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