Effectiveness Depends on Understanding
The petition to remove Marjorie Taylor Greene is doomed to failure.
Lots of people are reasonably angry at Republican member of the House of Representatives Marjorie Taylor Greene. As one observer put it, she's batshit crazy. Even her fellow Republicans are getting tired of her pointless antics. She hit a new low recently when she compared rules for persons who are fully vaccinated against Covid with laws requiring discrimination against Jews in the Holocaust. Even House minority leader Kevin McCarthy stated his disapproval of that claim. It is not surprising that some people wish the House would expel her.
The current effort to do so, however, is grossly ill informed and a complete waste of time.
People are free, of course, to waste their time however they like, but the problem is that these people seem to think that they are accomplishing something. They are not.
This effort ignores two important points. McCarthy, as House minority leader, has no power to bring any motion to a vote. Only the Speaker of the House, currently Nancy Pelosi, can do that. She might well like to expel Greene as much as anyone else, or even more, since some of Greene's foolishness makes her life more difficult in a very direct, concrete way.
But Pelosi likely also knows what these good citizens apparently do not. The U.S. Constitution, at Article I, Section 5, paragraph 2, reads: "Each House may determine the Rules of its Proceedings, punish its Members for disorderly Behaviour, and, with the Concurrence of two thirds, expel a Member." Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have the power to expel a member, but doing so requires a two thirds vote.
Republicans are well aware that Party loyalty is their only strength. They have not had a policy idea, other than cut taxes always at every opportunity, since the interstate highway system under Eisenhower. They have succeeded since Nixon by relying on their dog whistle racism strategy of telling their "white supremacist" base that the federal government only takes money from hard working white people and gives it to supposedly lazy Black people.
The odds of getting enough Republican votes to expel Marjorie Taylor Greene are slim and none. Democrats have a simple majority in the House, but not enough to expel a member. Assuming all Democrats voted in favor, they would still need some Republican votes to expel Greene.
The petition calling on McCarthy to expel Greene reflects an understandable impulse, but it is entirely ill conceived and doomed to fail.