The first thing Patrick McHenry did was

[malaise]

to kick Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer out of their offices.
Please remember that Nancy P was in California attending the funeral of her friend, Senator Diane Feinstein.
This piece of shit has no effin class or decency.
That is all.

[Duncanpup]

1. He's a asshole Keebler elf.

[NotHardly]

5. Thank you for that chuckle

[Walleye]

2. His little show of temper when he banged the gavel shows that he's petty and shallow

[The Polack MSgt]

3. The 1st thing he did was prove he is a Republican, same as the rest of 'em

The very "best" of them are worth less than a sack of assholes - and most of them are lawless fucking traitors

[rubbersole]

4. Yes they are.

[NJCher]

8. first time I've heard that

sack of assholes

I wish Mom hadn't trained me to be such a lady because I can definitely imagine uses for that phrase.

[leftieNanner]

6. Apparently Kevin told him to do that

I guess he wanted her office for himself.

Slimy creep.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

7. Who is surprised by this?

The GOP is the party of assholes

[LiberalFighter]

9. The way he dresses shows no taste

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Technically, he only has authority to hold Speakership votes not assign offices, I read. . . .nt

[Hieronymus Phact]

16. Did they actually leave their offices?

If so why?

[Cosmocat]

18. Not "their" offices

Their primary offices are in another part of the complex.

It has been practice as a courtesy to have small offices in the area around the speaker's office for the leaders of both parties.

It's a break in decorum and collegiality.

[Hieronymus Phact]

20. Thanks for the clarification

My point was why would they they obey an order from someone without any authority to issue it? They of all people would have known what powers the speaker pro tempore has. Although it seems like an untested gray area to be sure.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. I read that the Democrats packed up and vacated Pelosi's office by the midnight deadline. . . nt

[Traildogbob]

11. Amen Malaise

So Dems need to drop the thought of giving him Temp power. Finance and banking own his ass. And he is chairing that committee. Thom Hartmann have a breakdown of his donors. 95+ percent of his huge take was those finance puppet masters. He got spare change from his constituents.
Basically any Republican from North Carolina is criminal trash. Didn’t Meadows and Cawthorn give the country a preview.
Get that muppet out of there as fast as possible.

[malaise]

13. Great post

He has shown everyone who he is - pay attention Dems.

[Traildogbob]

14. I mean

Don’t he look like one of those slimy, cheating bankers from the Frontier days that would scam ranches out of their property?

[malaise]

17. Yes indeed

and there are no words for the stupid bow tie.😀

[SpamWyzer]

12. He had no

authority as Interim Speaker to do anything beyond arrange for the election of a new Speaker of the House. No authority to apportion office space and kick occupants out. POWER HUNGRY but inept and illegal, McHenry is too typical. BTW, bow ties are a dead give away of the totalitarian who wears it.

[malaise]

29. THIS

[spanone]

15. K&R

[sarcasmo]

21. The humiliation of Jordan is worth dealing with bow-tie.

[malaise]

22. Jordan's humiliation is also the Slobfathers

and I agree with you. This is a rejection of MAGAts and insurrectionists.

[PCIntern]

23. I recall when this slimy prick came to congress

and was heralded as the new brand of rabid conservative intellectual. Uh-huh...

[malaise]

24. Yep

A total and complete moron. McBow tie

[Caliman73]

32. No such thing as "conservative intellectual"

The closest thing to "conservative intellectual" would be a religious apologist. They dress up their emotional arguments in "intellectual" sounding language, but it is all just, "I WANNA BELIEVE"

What we need to remember about Conservatism, the thing that needs to be said about the political ideology, is that it is the DIRECT descendant of the defense of Monarchy. It is a step down from absolute monarchy and aristocracy. The "fathers" of Conservative thought saw that Monarchs were being deposed (and beheaded) by common people and terrified, they scrambled to put together a system that recognized that monarchy was no longer sustainable, but which KEPT the pyramidal nature of the society they thought was best. Both Edmund Burke and Count Joseph De Maistre were aristocrats by the way. Relatively wealthy and wanting to hold on to their status.

What we have seen in terms of "Conservative Intellectual" thought since the mid to late 1700's is simply an ad hoc defense as to why Wealthy White people should still be in charge of everything. Nothing intellectual about it. It doesn't comport to the actual information present in the shared reality.

If people have resources sufficient to sustain life and have some leisure, they will develop the skills needed to live a decent life. There will always be people who are bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, etc... and those things should be recognized, but the recognition should be about how that serves the collective humanity, not how people can use their attributes to hoard wealth at the expense of other people suffering.

[FlyingPiggy]

25. He is a disgusting POS. The kind that makes me root for karma & I truly believe it will come

And when it does, I hope it beats the shit out of him.

[liberal N proud]

26. When one cockroach steps aside, there is always a worse roach

Who will take its place.
Republicans prove this every time one moves on.

[Claustrum]

27. It's weird to me that the media is trying to paint him as a "moderate".

But when he entered congress, I believe he was said to be the most right wing person in congress at the time. Republicans really love to rewrite history and think we have 0 memory past 30 seconds.

[everyonematters]

28. I think the Dems could swallow a little pride here and cut a deal that benefits the American people.

Aide to Ukraine and Israel, the funding to keep the government running is more important than some offices.

[patphil]

30. If the Democrats want to deal, they can do a lot better than McHenry.

He's a no go from my point of view...a complete asshole.

[PortTack]

31. None of them do...I hope he knows shutting the government down isn't a good plan, or ending aide to UKR

[riversedge]

33. I recal McHenry hitting the gavel in the House very hard. I do not trust him. Big ego IMHO