There is no bottom to the GOP. Marjorie Taylor Greene has just introduced a bill to give Congress’s highest honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, to Kyle Rittenhouse.
Rep. Greene introduces bill to award Congress’s highest honor to Kyle Rittenhouse, who fatally shot two men
Greene introduced a bill Tuesday to give Rittenhouse the award. While the bill’s full text was not immediately available, a summary states that the measure would “award a Congressional Gold Medal to Kyle H. Rittenhouse, who protected the community of Kenosha, Wisconsin, during a Black Lives Matter (BLM) riot.”
I suppose next week she’ll have another bill calling for the reversal of the murder verdicts against Ahmaud Arbery’s killers too.
Well, at least for now, her bill isn’t going to go anywhere.
The likelihood that Greene’s effort will be successful is low. A bill requesting a Congressional Gold Medal must be co-sponsored by two-thirds of the House and the Senate, both now controlled by Democrats, before it is considered by the House Financial Services Committee and the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. After it is passed in Congress, the measure must be authorized by the president.
While many Republicans in Congress praised Rittenhouse for beating the rap, at least one had some concerns about giving him a gold medal:
Asked about Greene’s bill, Joel Valdez, a spokesman for Gaetz, said Wednesday, “We are concerned that awarding Kyle with a Congressional Gold Medal will give him a big head during the internship with our office.”
Seriously? The guy has already met Trump, been praised on Fox News, offered internships, and so on. If his head gets any bigger, it won’t fit under the Capitol dome.
For more legitimate reasons, the idea is not going down well recent recipients of the honor — which Greene voted against:
On Wednesday, Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn, who was among those honored for defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, said in a Twitter thread that it is “disheartening” to see some celebrate Rittenhouse as a hero while “the brave men and women who fought and defended the Capitol on 1/6 have to continue to fight just for the TRUTH to be told about that day.”
What next? A nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize?
“Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.”