McHenry vs. Frank

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This is just too delicious!

Just caught the tail end of this exchange on C-SPAN in the House;
Congressman McHenry (Joe raised some rather, erm, interesting questions about his, erm, orientation here) noted for the record that he was looking forward to a new direction and change toward bipartisanship in the House.

He then, upon a quick request, yielded the floor to Barney Frank of MA.

No questions there; Barney has been for years one of the only openly gay individuals in Congress, not to mention the go-to genius on procedure, and now to become the Chair of the Financial Services Committee.

Barney then pointed out to McHenry that his wish for a change toward bipartisanship in the House logically assumed that the House was, in contrast and in fact, partisan under Republican leadership.

Ka-CHING!!

McHenry then tried to recover by portraying Barney as unable to discern his sarcasm, to which Barney again requested he yield, upon being granted that, asked McHenry to please indicate or signal in the future when he is being sarcastic.

McHenry then told the story of how he was warned as a junior rep to never yield to Frank, because of his formidable debating skills.

Words to these effects.

McHenry is a member of the Financial Services Committee. Those meetings could get interesting; McHenry sarcasm and Frank smack downs.