From: pianoforte109@yahoo.com   
      
   On 10/4/23 10:24 PM, ScottW wrote:   
   > On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 7:00:31 AM UTC-7, mINE109 wrote:   
   >> On 10/3/23 11:05 PM, ScottW wrote:   
   >>> As one of his first acts as the acting speaker, Rep. Patrick   
   >>> McHenry ordered former Speaker Nancy Pelosi to vacate her Capitol   
   >>> hideaway office by Wednesday, according to an email sent to her   
   >>> office viewed by POLITICO.   
   >>>   
   >>> “Please vacate the space tomorrow, the room will be re-keyed,”   
   >>> wrote a top aide on the Republican-controlled House   
   >>> Administration Committee. The room was being reassigned by the   
   >>> acting speaker “for speaker office use,” the email said.   
   >>>   
   >>> :)   
   >> McHenry is breaking with House tradition in doing so. With Pelosi   
   >> out of town for Feinstein's funeral, he's being performatively   
   >> petty.   
   >   
   > It's according to the rules of Nancy.   
   >   
   > “Look the deal is that the office that Pelosi is in right now is the   
   > office of the preceding speaker. Speaker Pelosi and other Democrats   
   > determined that they wanted a new … speaker, and it’s Kevin McCarthy.   
   > So, he’s getting the office,”   
      
   Still petty.   
      
   > McCarthy is now the "preceding speaker" thanks to Nancy and co.   
   >   
   > So the dumb bitch booted herself.    It's great.   
      
   The majority party chooses the Speaker. The minority party doesn't.   
      
   And "dumb bitch" is quite the description for someone who could deliver   
   with a five-vote majority.   
      
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