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Opinion: Are MTG, Burchett best examples of ‘unapologetic champions’ for county GOP?

AP File Photo/Mike Stewart / U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaking after a town-hall style meeting in Acworth, Georgia, in April, will be one of the keynote speakers for the Hamilton County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner in July.
AP File Photo/Mike Stewart / U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaking after a town-hall style meeting in Acworth, Georgia, in April, will be one of the keynote speakers for the Hamilton County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner in July. AP File Photo/Mike Stewart / U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaking after a town-hall style meeting in Acworth, Georgia, in April, will be one of the keynote speakers for the Hamilton County Republican Party's Lincoln Day Dinner in July.

Putting Abraham Lincoln and Marjorie Taylor Greene in the same sentence seems something of a sacrilege.

But, in fact, it must be done to note that the shy wallflower of a Georgia congresswoman will be one of two keynote speakers at the Hamilton County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner on July 12 at The Chattanoogan Hotel.

Greene is the Rome congresswoman who only last week said in a social media post that she would have voted against President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful [budget] bill” had she known it prevented states from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years.

Isn’t that what the people of Northwest Georgia voted her in to do — to carefully examine all aspects of a bill, especially a controversial budget bill, before voting on it? We think that’s how it’s supposed to work.

Is she then any better than former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-California, who inanely said of a health care bill in 2010, “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what’s in it”?