“So those other guys live in fantasyland?” one Republican back in Georgia asked incredulously of U.S. Speaking of problems, Greene’s vote for the debt ceiling wasn’t nearly as offensive to some fellow Republicans as something she told reporters on the steps of the Capitol just after the vote: “I live In reality, not conservative fantasyland,” she said. This is where we have to dial in, and it takes people like me to step into it to solve these problems.” “I look at it that way as a business owner and then I also look at it as a mom.
“If we look at our country as our household, we’re going to go under foreclosure because we’re overspending,” she said then. “They’re shaking their heads saying, ‘I don’t know what to do with this.’ They’re hurt.”Īnother Republican from North Georgia said the Greene of last week, who warned that a default would hammer local small businesses’ borrowing rates, sounded more like the Greene of 2019 in her original run for Congress in the 6th Congressional District in suburban Atlanta.īefore she ever talked about stolen elections and witch hunts, Greene told the AJC that overhauling the country’s finances would be her top priority in Congress. “The word right now is that the base is confused,” said one Georgia GOP insider.
But all were waiting to see where Greene goes from here, after backing McCarthy for Speaker and then going along with a debt deal that was rational by any measure, but not the burn-it-down flavor her people know and love.
Some were still reserving judgment and others just don’t want to deal with an angry congresswoman who might come back around. None of the activists or Republicans I spoke with wanted their names used for this column. But what Greene should take much more seriously is the reaction inside her own north Georgia district, where the same activists who bedazzle their hats with her name are now trying to figure out whether Marjorie Taylor Greene is still their “MTG.”
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