Georgia Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has never been a fan of the truth, and she proved that again during a House hearing Tuesday when one of her Democratic colleagues used a word that set her off.
The hearing was on transgender athletes, and a witness from the right-wing think tank Heritage Foundation was testifying when Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) remarked:
“The Heritage Foundation loves Texas. They always sending us some nonsense bills that somehow set this country on the wrong trajectory. They send them to Texas. They send them to Florida. Every deplorable state that we can think about, they usually coming out of y’all’s think tank.”
Greene immediately objected.
“Point of order,” she said. “Point of order. I move to strike her words, ‘deplorable states.’
“That’s not a point of order,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) told the chairman of the committee, Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI). “Let the gentlelady proceed.”
After conferring with aides, McClain ruled against Greene.
“A ‘deplorable state’ is not a statement against a person,” she told Greene. “Or it is not engaging in personalities.”
Crockett later mocked Greene on Twitter.
As others reminded Greene on social media, the word “deplorable” is the perfect way to describe her.
