With the House Republicans internal problems blaring across the media headlines?
Why not go back to kicking Califonia House Democrat Nancy Pelosi? who has ALWAYS been a Republican political putching bag…….
A side office in another part of the Capitol isn’t really a big deal….
But kicking Pelosi and later Rep. Hoyer out of the extra rooms does show a pettiness in form….
Someday down the road?
Republicans in the House leadership, whoever that person.person’s that may be ARE gonna have to come hat in hand B ACK to Democrats in the House to get ANYTHING passed…..
Hmmmmm?
Kicking Democrats out of office space shouldn’t come as a total surprise. After all, there’s a long history of the majority party acting roughly with the political minority. During the era of Democratic dominance on Capitol Hill from the 1930s to 1990s, Republicans often complained about how they were treated, citing problems like a lack of decent office space and invitations to committee meetings. Indeed, Gingrich made these sorts of complaints central as he rose to power in the 1980s while railing against a broken Democratic establishment.
But this time is different. McCarthy was behind the move to kick Pelosi out of her office space, two Republican sources told CNN, and Louisiana Rep. Garret Graves told reporters that the office is for the preceding speaker, who is now McCarthy. A source close to Pelosi, however, said it was retaliation for Democrats voting against McCarthy in the speaker’s vote Tuesday. McCarthy and McHenry did not respond to requests for comment, but Graves proceeded to put the blame on Democrats for voting McCarthy out. “I don’t know what they’re complaining about. They created this situation,” Graves said.
So we now are witnessing what look like acts of petty partisan vengeance after the Democrats reasonably decided not to bail McCarthy out by voting for him as speaker when all of his own party members wouldn’t — a position the Democrats should never have been put in.
This partisan tit-for-tat over office space is only a distraction from the major problem the nation is now confronting and an effort by Republicans to shift the blame for a situation entirely of their making to the other side of the aisle. It is incumbent on reporters, elected officials and others not to take their eye off the ball. This story cannot become a mechanism for Republicans to deflect attention from the consequences of what they inflicted on the country on Tuesday — an earthquake whose aftershocks will likely continue for the coming months….