It just won’t be as much fun anymore for ‘ol John! Trying to re-create the days of Bob Michael hasn’t worked out as he expected.
Bob Michel was the Luser Deluxe minority leader that Democrats loved to patronize and despise. On his last day in the House, the 'Rats amused themselves by letting Michel hold the big gavel for half a minute or so ...... the motives behind that "gesture" were absolutely impossible to calculate.
But critics of congressional "incivility" <bitch, bitch, bitch>, when asked, always go back to the end of Michel's Lusership, which was the moment when House Republicans quit letting 'Rats push them around. That's when, the MediaRats say, "things got nasty" ...... uh, huh.
(Republicans who were there remember instead the "Class of Watergate" in 1975 and their smug moral superiority and unwillingness to treat with "tainted" Republicans, even as the 'Rats threw the Vietnam War, sandbagged President Ford, and prepared to take history into receivership with an incoming Prog-Stalinist Democratic majority in Senate, House, and White House under Jimmy Carter.)