Liberals erupt after Nancy Pelosi evicted from Capitol: 'What in the name of God?'
By: Claude Taylor (Fox News)
Democrats joined forces with Matt Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus to remove Kevin McCarthy. Now Democrats want concessions?
Nancy Pelosi should be assigned an office next to Matt Gaetz. Birds of a feather belong together.
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Liberals on social media lashed out in response to interim House Speaker Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., evicting Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., from her private Capitol office.
Pro-Democrat X (formally Twitter) users slammed McHenry's move as "petty," with one calling it a "d--- move" and another describing it as "authoritarian."
McHenry, who assumed the role of speaker pro tempore after Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., was ousted from the speaker position following a vote led by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., informed Pelosi of the eviction in an email sent to her on Tuesday.
In it, McHenry notified the former House Speaker that her hideaway office had been reassigned for "speaker office use." The email ordered Pelosi to "[p]lease vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed."
A Pelosi spokesperson confirmed that the lawmaker's things were being moved that same day with the help of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,' D-N.Y., staff.
In a statement, Pelosi dinged Republicans for pushing her out, saying, "With all of the important decisions that the new Republican Leadership must address, which we are all eagerly awaiting, one of the first actions taken by the new Speaker Pro Tempore was to order me to immediately vacate my office in the Capitol."
She added, "Sadly, because I am in California to mourn the loss of and pay tribute to my dear friend Dianne Feinstein, I am unable to retrieve my belongings at this time."
Liberal X users posted support for Pelosi, and voiced their opinions that this was a "mean" move from GOP leadership.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's ex-wife Maria Shriver composed a dramatic response to the news, writing, "What in the name of God? We best all wake up. This is way bigger than Kevin McCarthy. We all have to realize that our country and its future is on the line right now."
Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., slammed McHenry's decision, posting, "Republicans have no class. The problem is not just that they are incompetent—it's that they are mean and petty."
"By the way, Nancy Pelosi is in California for the funeral of her dear friend, Diane Feinstein," the lawmaker added.
Liberal author Claude Taylor remarked, "So petty."
Another Democrat lawmaker, Rep. Nydia Velazquez of New York, tore into the GOP for the move, posting, "While Nancy Pelosi is in California mourning the loss of her longtime friend, @PatrickMcHenry does this. From top to bottom the @HouseGOP are classless and shameful people who are desperate to score cheap political points rather than govern."
Tennessee election commissioner Chris D. Jackson described McHenry's move, stating, "D--- move by a small man. The MAGA way."
The X account for progressive activism group Resolute Square noted that McHenry's move is much more than petty, writing, "Although it sounds merely like a petty move by the Speaker Pro-tem--evicting Pelosi & Hoyer from their offices, departing from the unwritten norms, values and mutural respect that make our democracy possible, is a total authoritarian move by McHenry."
And The Bulwark editor at large Bill Kristol argued that Pelosi and Hoyer's offices should be restored at the next opportunity, posting, "When Hakeem Jeffries is elected Speaker next week with moderate Republican support, he should restore to Nancy Pelosi and Steny Hoyer their Capitol hideaways—and also follow House custom and courtesy in providing a hideaway to former Speaker McCarthy. In victory, magnanimity."
In another post, Kristol referred to McHenry as "Patrick McPetty."
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Pity the pinheads.
"Nancy Pelosi should be assigned an office next to Matt Gaetz. Birds of a feather belong together."
Just where do your feathers come from, the island of Mauritius?
If the rules allowed Pelosi to be removed from the office because of established protocol, then why the hoopla? Is Pelosi above the rules? If so, why?
Decorum? She was attending a funeral, so why the rush?
When did she lose the office to begin with? When she was no longer Speaker of the House? If so, shouldn't she already have moved some time ago?
Update: Reading further comments, it appears she must have made someone, who had more power than her, angry. So politics as usual in the US?
The harbinger of mean-spirited authoritarianism yet to come.
Even a bitch like Nancy isn't above tradition.
McCarthy behind move to kick Pelosi out of her office, sources say -- so he can move into it | CNN Politics
Read more of them, the office she was occupying was reserved for former Speakers. Now that McCarthy is the former Speaker it goes to him.
Exactly, maybe the Dems shouldn’t have voted against McCarthy.
I believe Speaker McCarthy offered her the extra office space, which that office was.
I assume that once he was no longer speaker, mainly because of the democrat bloc vote, people close to McCarthy decided it was time to take it back.
This is too funny. But it's not surprising hearing about democrats and their lemmings whining and crying when they don't get their way.
But Democrats did get their way. Democrats wanted McCarthy removed and that's what Democrats voted to do. Matt Gaetz only made it possible for Democrats to punish Kevin McCarthy.
Sweet revenge would be giving Pelosi's Capitol office to Kevin McCarthy.
McCarthy is now the former Speaker so it goes to him. Your "sweet revenge" is stale.
Then why all the crying?
Oh FFS.
This is why we can't have nice things.
Pelosi being kicked out of her office is definitely a WTF moment, even more so on 24 hours' notice. Seriously. WTF is wrong with people?
It is not, however, a seminal moment in American history where "our country is on the line". Again, WTF is wrong with people?
I have a feeling Maria Shriver was referring to the whole House chaos and not just this "eviction" of pelosi.
It's still just melodrama.
I doubt if anyone is really that worked up over this, including nancy pelosi.
I hope not. I hope she just rolls her eyes and gets on with her day, but she's certainly entitled to bitch about it.
I know right, the Speaker of the House was ousted for doing his job .. I was blown away that the whole of the (D)s in the House of Representatives sided with the extreme MAGAs .. shocking shit right there! Guess the (D)s need to tamp down their anti MAGA rhetoric now that they vote lock step with them?
Rumor had it McCarthy wanted the office since he's been kicked out of the Speaker's office. Decorum dictates they should have waited until she came back from Ms Boxer's funeral, but then none of these people have much decorum.
More circuses with too many clowns. I expect another round of tit for tat when Dems take the House again. It's all stupid.
Decorum is a dead Dodo. (a clue to #2 across.)
On February 15th, 1798 Congressman Roger Griswold attacked Rep Matthew Lyon with a hickory walking stick in the House - beating him about the head, shoulders and arms. Lyon then grabbed a pair of metal tongs from the House fireplace and returned as well as he got. Griswold tripped Lyon and stuck him in the face while he lay on the floor. They were briefly separated but Lyon unexpectedly jumped Griswold again with those tongs to restart the brawl.
The two had a history of animosity. Earlier that year Griswold publicly called Lyon a coward and Lyon spit in Griswold's face. This was the first Congressional ethics charge, but no censure vote was held.
May 22nd 1856 Famously Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Charles Sumner after a speech. Sumner, like many abolitionists used lurid language saying Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler took "a mistress who. though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the site of the world, is chaste in his site - I mean, the harlot, Slavery.' Sumner had an adopted daughter born into slavery from forced relations of a slaveholder and slave. Brooks challenged Sumner to a duel, but later confronted Sumner in a nearly empty Senate Chamber and beat him with a cane before he could stand. Sumner fell and was trapped under the desk. Sumner ripped the bolted desk from the floor, walked up the isle and collapsed unconscious. Brooks continued to beat the man until his cane broke and quietly left the chamber. For years after many Senators carried canes and/or pistols.
February 5th 1858 Congressman Laurence Keitt started massive late night brawl on the House floor during a tense debate, again on Slavery. Keitt interrupted Rep Grow's speech calling him a a "black Republican puppy". The two had words and Keitt went for Grow's throat and the brawl of 50 Senators enveloped the Senate floor until the hairpiece of Rep Barksdale fell off and he put it back on backwards. Both sides broke out in laughter.
January 6th 2023 During McCarthy's Speaker election Rep Mike Rogers was held back by Rep Richard Hudson when he lunged at Matt Gaetz. Gaetz might still get his ass kicked on the House floor by members of his own conference.
This is great, we need congressional ''cage fighting''.
CSPAN could do Pay-per-views.
The British Parliamentarians historically have a lot more class and decorum than the American lawmakers. One of my favourite stories about rivalry between political parties and their leaders is what was said in the House of Commons when William Gladstone made an insulting remark about Benjamin Disraeli. Disraeli replied: "While your ancestors were painting themselves blue and hiding in caves, mine were priests in the Temple of David."
If anyone is interested in the history of that rivalry, it is very entertainingly related in this article.
The Rivalry Between Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone
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Liberals invoking God in their whine was a nice touch, though.
Why in the name of God did Democrats join forces with Matt Gaetz and the Freedom Caucus?
For the same reason the British joined forces with Benedict Arnold.
Of course it's a dick move . The Republicans have controlled the House for 10 months, and no eviction up til now. She's not even in DC right now.
Yes, but Pelosi just lied a couple weeks ago about having Mccarthy's back if he passed a CR.
Plus that office traditional belongs to the former speaker, who thanks to Nancy's crew voting with Gaetz. is now Kevin McCarthy. Bye Felicia.
So liberals are whining like little bitches again, must be a day that ends in Y, Let s recap, McCarthy does a Bi-partisan bill with the democrats that he knows will piss of the crazy wing of his party, Nancy tells him that she has his back, and then immediately sticks a knife in it. The speaker controls the office assignments, a would put her in the smallest broom closet that i could find for her lack of integrity. Fuck that lying bitch.
... must be, the inanity of that comment makes a daily appearance.
That comment reeks of ignorance.
Everything appears to reek in your world.
Nope, only articles that are so worthless that nobody comments on them.
Days don't end in 'y' inside the liberal bubble. Today is Thruswah. Tomorrow will be Friwah. For liberals every day is wah day.
Eventually liberals will go with a European calendar. First day of the week would be wah, followed by wah-wah. So on through the week until wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah-wah.
Cry me a river. House Democrats didn't have a problem with Pelosi's dick moves and authoritarianism regarding the January 6th riot AND how she set up and conducted her made-for-Hollywood sham January 6th hearings.
You are reaping what you've sown, Nancy Pelosi.
I love this comment by the Crypt Keeper:
Hey Nancy, if you don't care about it then why are you and your blundering followers crying about it? Apparently you don't realize Hastert was evicted as well. But why let facts like that get in the way of things.
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McCarthy will be in the office that Pelosi just vacated......That should leave a mark.
Once again the democrats in congress are too stupid to see the unintended consequences of their actions.
Steny Hoyer was also evicted from his office.