GOP Appoints QAnon’s Marjorie Taylor Greene to Educational Committee

When public education wrecking ball Betsy DeVos left office, did it dawn on anyone that we’d soon be speaking about someone associated with American education who is arguably even worse?  From this:

The Democratic chair of the House Education and Labor Committee on Thursday blasted the Republican leadership’s decision to appoint Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to the key congressional panel, pointing to the freshman GOP lawmaker’s history of peddling vile lies and conspiracy theories about recent school shootings which left dozens of students and teachers dead.

“House Republicans have appointed someone to this committee who claimed that the killing of 20 children and six educators at Sandy Hook Elementary School was a hoax,” Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.) said in a statement, a rare rebuke of the minority party’s appointments by a sitting committee chair. “House Republicans have appointed someone to this committee who claimed that the killing of 14 students and three teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School was staged.”

Rep. Bobby Scott: “House Republicans have appointed someone to this Committee who chased and berated a 17-year-old survivor of a mass school shooting, and then celebrated this behavior by posting it on social media,” Scott continued. “Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy must explain how someone with this background represents the Republican party on education issues. He is sending a clear message to students, parents, and educators about the views of the Republican Party.”

FWIW, I know personally the mother of a six-year-old who was gunned down that day.

It’s hard enough for Americans to maintain their sanity as the pandemic drags on; we really don’t need yet another injection of pure lunacy into the federal government.