Mike Johnson Just Dissed Marjorie Taylor Greene In The Most Southern Way
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The House speaker kept his cool while delivering an icy reply to her efforts to discredit and possibly demote him.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) repeatedly uttered “bless her heart” at the mention of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) in a new interview shared Wednesday.
But he likely wasn’t being a Southern gentleman in the face of her loud campaign to have him axed from his post.
The term is often used in the South as a condescending diss that’s delivered like honey. It can even go so far as to say someone is pathetic.
Given the two lawmakers’ Deep South roots, Johnson’s taunt likely was understood by Greene.
And so were the other shots he took at her.
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