McCarthy may be learning towards taking Greene off of committees 

Politico reports that McCarthy is now reportedly leaning toward punishment for Greene. He privately prodded her to apologize for her comments and/or remove herself from her committees. House Democrats are set to force a vote to strip her of those slots, McCarthy said, and Republicans fear having to vote on this themselves.

That’s amusing enough in its display of spinelessness. But the cowardice runs even deeper. If you read through numerous quotes from Republicans condemning Greene, they mostly focus on her lunacy about 9/11, about staged mass shootings and about space lasers igniting wildfires.

But Republicans don’t say enough about the fact that Greene also endorsed the killing of numerous high-profile Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/02/03/marjorie-taylor-greene-trump-political-violence/

From Politico

INSIDE MCCARTHY’S TENTATIVE PLAN TO DEAL WITH GREENE: During a two-hour meeting Tuesday night with Greene, McCarthy explained to the QAnon supporter that her controversial past statements were coming to a head. The problem, McCarthy told her: Democrats are threatening to force a vote to remove her from her committees — and that puts the entire GOP Conference in a bad spot. McCarthy tried to give Greene options, according to a person familiar with their talk: She could denounce QAnon and apologize publicly for espousing hurtful conspiracy theories and endorsing violence on Democrats. She could remove herself from the panel to spare her colleagues a vote on the matter. Or, she could face removal from her own GOP peers.

It must not have gone as well as McCarthy hoped, because he then called a late-night meeting with the panel that designates committee assignments to discuss removing Greene. According to our sources, the room agreed that a House vote on this issue would be catastrophic politically for their members who are already angry at being associated with Greene’s crazy statements. That must be avoided, they concurred.

McCarthy told the room he would speak with House Majority Leader STENY HOYER to try to broker a deal. McCarthy would offer to remove Greene from one committee — Education and Labor — if Democrats back off a House floor vote to remove her from both. (Greene also sits on the Budget Committee.) 

It is unclear whether Hoyer will go for this. The pressure on Democratic leaders to do something drastic to punish Greene is only increasing. McCarthy’s members also talked about re-appointing Greene to another committee Tuesday night, but that will never fly with Democrats. 

It’s important to note the plans could all change if Greene apologizes or removes herself, or if Democrats refuse to back off their threatened vote. But Republicans in the room complained about how bad a precedent Democrats dictating GOP committee assignments sets — and also expressed worry about Democrats making Greene a martyr with the Republican base when they just want her to go away.

https://www.politico.com/playbook

MTG response to ouster from committees 

“I woke up early this morning literally laughing thinking about what a bunch of morons the Democrats (+11) are for giving some one like me free time,” she wrote on her personal Twitter account.

“In this Democrat tyrannical government, Conservative Republicans have no say on committees anyway,” she said, adding, “Oh this is going to be fun!”

Ms. Greene is responding to her public reprimand in much the same way that former President Donald J. Trump, a role model and ally, reacted to his — by hurling insults.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/us/marjorie-taylor-greene.html