How a morally rotted Republican in congress answers questions under oath

Fourteenth Amendment 

• Section 3

  No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

A lawsuit has been filed to prevent Marjorie Taylor Greene from running for re-election to the House. The lawsuit accuses Greene of supporting the 1/6 coup attempt and is thus constitutionally barred from running for re-election. She is asked questions under oath and her responses frequently are:

• I don't recall
• I don't remember
• I did not support the insurrection
• I didn't plan 1/6

In other words, Greene relies on standard Republican deceit tactics of lying, denying and keeping her mouth shut in the face of questions she does not want to answer.

That she claims no recollection of asking the president to impose martial law is for me in my opinion ample evidence that she is a shameless, bald faced liar and a traitor. Anyone speaking to a sitting president would remember whether they asked for martial law. To the extent there is such a thing as common sense (maybe there isn't because it is an essentially contested concept), common sense tells us that Greene is a liar. 

Obviously, that is not a holding in a court of law. But it is a defensible opinion in the court of public opinion. If the rule of law meant anything any more, Greene would be prosecuted for treason and sentenced to death if convicted. Sadly, the rule of law has mostly rotted away for the rich and powerful. She will be found to have not supported 1/6 and allowed to run for re-election. Then, the fine people of the state of GA will re-elect her. 

As we all know, the fine people of GA simply cannot vote for an evil socialist, communist, fascist, atheist, pedophilic Democratic tyrant. As all good Republicans know, all Democrats are hell bent on (1) making Christianity illegal, (2) putting Christians in re-education camps to turn them into Godless atheist pedophiles, (3) taking away all guns and Bibles, and (4) doing some other horrible, terrible, awful things, like trying to do something about climate change.

That is how morally degenerate, reality-detached and neo-fascist the Republican Party cult has become.

Question:  In situations where there is room for doubt, are members of the American public justified and doing the right thing to not give the benefit of any doubt to a Republican in congress when they talk about much of anything, especially when they say nothing or are defending themselves against allegations of bad behavior?

Question to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene: "In fact, you think that Speaker Pelosi is a traitor to the country, right?"

Greene: "I'm not answering that question...I haven't said that."

Q: "Put up plaintiff's exhibit 5."

Greene: "Oh, no. Wait. Hold on now..." pic.twitter.com/hBHPAkUOaA

— CSPAN (@cspan) April 22, 2022

See why Republicans rely so heavily on the keep your mouth shut tactic when faced with inconvenient questions? It is so easy to get caught in a lie, like Greene did here.