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Adios, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Adios, Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce the latest darling of the Democrat Party:

Marjorie Taylor Greene.

Late of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, energetic campaigner for Donald Trump and now living in the Trump outhouse, which means Dems suddenly find her attractive.

The only way a conservative can become a Democrat Darling is to announce his or her loathing of Donald Trump. Now that MTG has done that, the congresswoman from Georgia joins the late John McCain, George Conway, George W. Bush, Mike Pence, Liz Cheney and even Dick Cheney as a certified member of the Republicans-Democrats-hold-their-noses-and-pretend-to like club.

In case you missed it, Greene announced over the weekend that she would be resigning from Congress effective January 5, 2025, after Trump said she was a “traitor” and he would support a Republican to primary the incumbent who’s been in the House for five years.

Hold on. Five years? Why does that make a difference? Why January 5th and not, say December 5th?

That’s simple.

That magical date makes her eligible for a congressional pension. She was sworn in on January 3, 2021 and January 5, 2026 secures her lifetime congressional pension after exactly five years of service.

Will her pension be huge after just five years (it’s calculated on her highest salary year and she’d gotten three raises since her election)? No. But it’s a lifetime lagnaippe courtesy of, well, us.

Last week, Trump suggested term limits for members of congress. He floated three terms for members of the House - that would be a maximum of six years - and two terms for members of the Senate for a total of 12 years.

Someone did the math and suggested this would wipe out more than 70 percent of current members of Congress, so it’s unlikely to gain any traction.

I like it!

While we’re at it, if members of Congress were limited to a short part of their working years in Washington, they should lose the pension perk. They can go back to the private sector and save taxpayers untold millions in pension payments.

These two changes would spare us the discomfiting images of senators having mini-seizures on the floor, taking tumbles or unsentient senators being wheeled onto the floor by aides who cast votes for them.

Oh, and it would limit their time for insider trading, perhaps keeping greedballs out of the Capitol.

Term limits won’t happen. Termination of Congressional pensions ought to be on the table, however.

To Marjorie Taylor Greene, I say good luck with the rest of your life. I predict a seat on “The View” is in her future.

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