Once a secret, the temporary House speaker is Rep. Patrick McHenry

[peppertree]

Source: Business Insider

Kevin McCarthy was ousted from power on Tuesday evening, leading to Rep. Patrick McHenry being named the temporary leader of a chamber thrown into chaos.

Under House rules, McCarthy was required to provide the House clerk in January a then-secret list of members that temporarily serve as Speaker of the House if the office became vacant. McHenry, a nine-term North Carolina Republican, was revealed to be the first name on McCarthy's list.

McHenry, who leads the House Financial Services Committee, now has the power of the speakership that is needed to lead the chamber through the days ahead.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-leads-the-house-mccarthy-ousted-speaker-pro-tempore-2023-10

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Outgoing House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (left) speaks to House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry (R-NC).

The bow-tied McHenry, a hard-right loyalist of the just-ousted McCarthy, was named temporary leader of a chamber thrown into chaos.

[Oopsie Daisy]

1. The luck of the Irish?

[iluvtennis]

2. Why someone that is hard right...why not a moderate/reasonable GOPer? n/t

[peppertree]

5. Good question. Probably because there are so few left.

Someone like a David Joyce wouldn't last three days as head of today's neo-fascist GOP caucus.

That said, I'm all for their keeping that toad McHenry.

That nasty little runt, and his bow-tie, are a walking punch line.

[FakeNoose]

7. Because McCarthy got to pick him

They tend to pick their buddies, so now we know who McCarthy likes and trusts.
It sure as hell wasn't going to be Empty-Greene or Matt Gaetz.

[MayReasonRule]

21. Republicans Are Wholly Fascist And Without Reason

There are no reasonable Republicans. The GOP is wholly fascist.

Those that support the same are the same.

They're the same.

[2live is 2fly]

3. This lil' feller is a reeeal peckerwood alright, yep, a real POS!

[rurallib]

4. Well, it ain't gonna get no better is it, Folks?

Expect a budget standoff almost immediately I suspect.
The Molotov cocktail has been passed to a new guy - same as the old guy.

[Rebl2]

6. Nope

[Demsrule86]

20. He is not the same. He is worse. Look how he treated Nancy. This is bad for us.

[japple]

8. Any NC DUers have info on this guy?

I know he's probably an idiot, but would like to hear what the (sane) people from NC have to say.

[groundloop]

9. IMMHO, McCarthy putting this guy atop a list of successors says it all.....

Birds of a feather....

[dweller]

11. The sane ppl ?

Oh well
🫤

But here’s a clue

https://www.salon.com/2011/05/25/patrick_mchenry/



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[japple]

12. Sane people. I was referring to the DUers from NC. Thanks for posting the article from Salon

I like their stuff and YIKES, this is from 2011, so this guy has only had time to get worse.

[dweller]

13. OK

I’m from NC …
Knew about McHenry from way back. Not my rep tho


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[japple]

14. I lived in NC for 25 years, but now live in MTG's GA 14th district. Still miss those

beautiful mountains in WNC, but family needs came first.

[dweller]

15. Lived in Asheville a couple of years

When I went to UNCA … loved the mtns
That’s Mchenry’s district across 9 counties there 😐

But I’ve been in NC for 68+ years





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[japple]

16. Yeah, I lived in Asheville back 1980-1987--before it became a boomtown. We left to move

up to Avery Co. when Asheville started getting too crowded!!! LOL

[Wonder Why]

17. I'm in NC but he's not my congressjerk. He covers Mooresville, Hickory and a bunch of MaggotVille

towns.

All I ever heard of him was negative about being helpful to the no-counters as he was just another maggot. I was "lucky" enough to have Traitor Meadows and Cawthorn (remember that nutcase?) "represent" me. Aggghhh! Now we have Chucky Edwards. Was useless on the County Commission and worse as our Congresscritter.

[littlemissmartypants]

18. Karl Rove...

Protégé
An exposé...Getting Ahead in the GOP
Rep. Patrick McHenry and the art of defending the indefensible.

by Benjamin Wallace-Wells
October 1, 2005

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2005/10/01/getting-ahead-in-the-gop/

McHenry’s first full-time job in Washington was with the conservative communications group DCI. It was quite a choice. If there is a center to Washington conservative dark arts, DCI is pretty much it. They were paid consultants, for instance, to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth last year, although they are most known for attacking fellow Republicans. DCI’s founder is Thomas Synhorst; his expertise lies in “astroturfing”–developing fake grassroots groups to front for conservative and corporate causes–and “push-polling,” a subtle technique that can impart damaging information about a rival candidate in the guise of a hypothetical question for a poll. Synhorst conducted, for instance, push-polls for Bob Dole’s presidential campaign in 1996, in which Iowans were asked if they would be more or less likely to vote for Steve Forbes if they knew that the candidate had a “promiscuously homosexual father.”

[moose65]

19. Not my rep, but in a neighboring district

McHenry, from all I know about him, is a smarmy asshole and total jerk. What a surprise, I know!

[cab67]

10. Not an upgrade.