‘It’s Hard to Go to Work Every Day with Marjorie Taylor Greene’
"What’s not okay is lying to the American people," Rep Porter adds
A Democratic congresswoman used her appearance Tuesday night on comedian Stephen Colbert's late-night TV program to do a little truth-telling with the American people.
Rep Katie Porter, of California, was a guest on the CBS talk program, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, to plug her new book, I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan, and to talk up her candidacy as one in a crowded field of Democrats to potentially succeed retiring Democratic Sen Dianne Feinstein.
Porter, particularly, used the occasion to call out one of the most well-known of her hard-right colleagues.
“There is this effort and politics to try to pretend that Congress is glamorous and we are powerful and it’s all this really wonderful, amazing things in the truth is it is like you’re hot. You’re late. You’re sweaty. Don’t know what’s going on. You’re flying back and forth and I think we should be more honest with the American people,” said Porter, who's been a rising star in her party since she was elected to Congress in the 2018 midterm elections. “Congress is a mess and that’s because democracy is kind of supposed to be messy.
“That’s okay but what’s not okay is lying to the American people about it and pretending that it’s all easy and cut and dry because the truth is, it’s hard. It’s hard to go to work every day with Marjorie Taylor Greene as a colleague,” Porter added, to cheers and applause from Colbert's studio audience.
A Republican from Georgia, Greene has become notable for her embrace of wild conspiracy theories, her strident opposition to the LGBTQ community, and her support for those who took part in the violent insurrection at the US Capitol Building on January 6, 2021.
Greene also has been a stalwart backer of Donald Trump's lie that he actually won the 2020 presidential election.
“I mean, most people would just find a different cubicle, different job. It is hard to commute 3,000 miles to your job. Before I was a politician, I was a professor and I actually used to be respected and my job,” Porter said. “One of the things the book tries to grapple with is Congress has about the same popularity as the American cockroach.
“I think we should think about, ‘Why is that? Why don’t people like us? Why do people not trust us?’” she added. “We are not straight with them about what it’s really like, what the challenges are and about what we can do about it.”
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