After a long and arduous process, Democratic President Joe Biden's bipartisan infrastructure bill has officially passed Congress--and Republican Georgia Representative and QAnon devotee Marjorie Taylor Greene isn't having it.
The bill provides for everything from bridge and highway repairs to power grid maintenance and rural internet upgrades--and all of the jobs that come with them. This has Greene incensed, since things like highways and power grids are "Communist," because...
Well, who knows, because as usual with Republicans and the "C-word," Greene didn't offer any factual or historical basis for the claim.
These are the 13 “Republicans" who handed over their voting cards to Nancy Pelosi to pass Joe Biden's Communist takeover of America via so-called infrastructure:
Katko
Bacon
Van Drew
Young
Upton
Kinzinger
Gonzalez (OH)
Reed
Smith
Gabarino
Malliotakis
Fitzpatrick
McKinley
— Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 (@mtgreenee) November 6, 2021
Greene's Republican colleague, Illinois Representative Adam Kinzinger, who is one of the few Republicans who voted in favor of the bill and was name-checked in the tweet, was not impressed.
He clapped back at Greene with a tweet perfectly laying out the absurdity of her claim.
Infrastructure=communism is a new one. Eisenhower's interstate system should be torn up or else the commies will be able to conveniently drive! Red Dawn in real life pic.twitter.com/WTPtBYDSHx
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) November 6, 2021
In his response, Kinzinger referenced what is widely considered one of the greatest public works projects in United States history, the interstate highway system, which was implemented in the 1950s by the one Republican president you never seem to hear Republicans talk about: Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Kinzinger tweeted:
"Infrastructure=communism is a new one. Eisenhower's interstate system should be torn up or else the commies will be able to conveniently drive!"
Silly Kinzinger seems not to understand that fixing roads so people don't die in a bridge collapse is a direct affront to Americans' freedom to die in a bridge collapse!
After shouting out Eisenhower, Kinzinger posted a follow-up tweet attacking Greene's use of scare quotes around the word "Republican."
Also I'm assuming that the “Republicans" being in quotes implies that if you don't believe in Jewish space lasers, and believe in roads, you aren't a real Republican
— Adam Kinzinger (@AdamKinzinger) November 6, 2021
"Jewish space lasers," of course, are what Marjorie Taylor Greene infamously blamed for California's 2018 wildfires.
On Twitter, people applauded Kinzinger--both for voting for Biden's bill and for clapping back at Greene.
I am just glad we do have some lawmakers who are willing to reach accross the aisle to help their constituents with the badly needed infrastructure bill. Trump tried 4 yrs and could not get it done. If MTG and others started helping each other instead of fighting we could do alot
— Janice Garner (@DuckyJan1) November 6, 2021
They are more interested in Confederate generals.
— Ann G. Deuel (@deuel_g) November 6, 2021
The good news is that when the new roads are built, the new rail system is in place, and we have good, clean drinking water for everyone, Marjorie doesn't have to drive on it, ride on it, or drink it.
— Brett Baron (@brettbaron) November 6, 2021
Surely you know that anything that helps the "average" American is Communism, Socialism or Marxism. Anything that helps the 1% is called Capitalism.
— CathyO (@cathyob1) November 6, 2021
OK, so not a single penny should go to her district.
— Chuck Berray (@EyeOnAlaska) November 6, 2021
At some point, opposing things that would help people in your district has to be counterproductive, right? Right??
— Ethan B (@multiplicity155) November 6, 2021
Thank you to the 13 Republicans who voted for clean water, roads, bridges and internet access. We appreciate your commitment to #CountryOverParty
— Timi Haworth (@timihaworth) November 6, 2021
Thank You Adam, Infrastructures are for the whole country. You work for the people and you have our respect 🙌‼️
— Lisa Grande (@LisaGrande13) November 6, 2021
I celebrate the fact that Democrats and some Republicans were able to come together and agree to make a massive investment in THIS country that will benefit All people. This sort of thing used to be what being in government was about.
— Kevin Buckby (@kevbuckby) November 6, 2021
I celebrate the fact that Democrats and some Republicans were able to come together and agree to make a massive investment in THIS country that will benefit All people. This sort of thing used to be what being in government was about.
— Kevin Buckby (@kevbuckby) November 6, 2021
Biden is expected to sign the infrastructure bill into law any day now. Democrats hope to pass its sister bill, Biden's Build Back Better social spending legislation, by Thanksgiving.
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