Democratic Rep. Chellie Pingree had a pretty easy time making attention whore Marjorie Taylor Greene look like the idiot she is after she introduced an amendment to preserve Confederate statues on federal land this Thursday.
Last month, Greene made a fool of herself when she tried to pretend she was standing up for Confederate soldiers and “our nation’s history” by paying her respects at what she thought was a Confederate monument in Chickamauga, GA, that actually pays tribute to Union troops. Whoops.
This Thursday Greene managed to make a fool of not only herself, but also former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke. Zinke rose in support of the bill, apparently believing that it only applied to monuments that commemorate the Founding Fathers.
Greene immediately shot that notion down with her response:
GREENE: Actually, there should be no funds allocated to remove any monument and there’s no necessary reason to remove the monuments. This is the Democrats’ and the Biden administration’s effort to erase our history, just as they have done to the statue of Robert E. Lee. This is an outrage. This is exactly what they do in communist countries and the Democrats want to accuse us of book burning while we try to get pornography books out of our children’s schools? The Democrats will do nothing to stop their attempts to destroy our nation’s history and we must protect it.
Which prompted this excellent response from Pingree who pointed out to Greene that Lee was not one of the Founding Fathers.
PINGREE: Just to clear up a couple of things, my colleague mentioned the founding fathers. Robert E. Lee was not actually one of the Founding Fathers, he was a general of the Confederacy. That was the city of Charlottesville, that wasn’t a national monument when that statue was removed, and I just have to say I find it rich that the party that has supported book banning in our libraries, rewriting curriculum, not talking about our history over and over again, is the very one that is saying that we have to often keep painful monuments in places where they do damage, where they interfere with people’s ability to enjoy the particular area that they’re in.
The amendment failed, but not without a whole lot of support from her apparently racist Confederate traitor loving Republicans.
