McHenry, GOP call on Democratic leaders to share party's new power

By Mary M. Shaffrey
Winston-Salem Journal

Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry is taking a page from the Democratic playbook - almost literally - to try to keep GOP concerns from being ignored in the early days of a Democratically controlled House.

McHenry, who represents North Carolina's 10th District, gathered with fellow Republicans in the House Press Gallery yesterday and later appeared on cable-TV news shows to say he believes that Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was right when she called for a "Minority Bill of Rights" two years ago.

This is embarrassing... I wish the GOP would stop their whining. They need to understand that this is what happens when you don't win. I don't blame Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats for doing this... They won; the GOP lost.