Oh dear. What is Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC) doing in this photo, courtesy of BlogActive?

The woman in question appears to be conservative Republican activist Jackie Sullens, who happens to live with a woman. Perhaps that's the woman who makes up this lovely threesome?

As BlogActive notes, "What does your gaydar reading say?"

According to BlogActive,

Rep. Patrick McHenry (NC-10) has been an enthusiastic rightwing Republican footsoldier since he was elected to Congress in 2004. And before that? He served one term in the N.C. House of Representatives. 

So it came as a shock to read this in today's Pentagon Post:

Republicans, by contrast, seized on the plan as a political lifeboat after months of being forced to vote against measures repudiating Bush's policy. "Let the generals in the field dictate," said Rep. Patrick T. McHenry (N.C.), an Iraq war veteran.

Jon Ponder connects the dots so I don't have to:

In the wake of closeted Sen. Larry Craig’s self-outing in an airport men’s room this summer, Mike Rogers, the Washington-based publisher of blogActive who outed Craig, is threatening to reveal the secret sexual identities of two leading GOP senators, while two allegedly gay Republican congressmen are making headlines and drawing unwelcome attention to themselves, the timing of which could not be worse.

The Senators are Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), while the Representatives are Patrick McHenry (R-NC) and David Dreier (R-CA).

Former Rep. Mark Foley's lead defender, corrupt gay rightwing Republican Patrick McHenry (R-NC) is back in the news, and this could be the tawdriest Republican scandal ever. Howie Klein tells the story, which reads like the plot of a mystery:

it looks like there is a connection between McHenry and a murderous Republican homosexual love triangle/escort service.

Remember Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), the GOP's lead defender of page-molesting Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL)? It seemed strange that anyone would defend Foley, so I decided to learn more about McHenry and - suprise surprise! - last October I outed him as gay.

GOP "attack dog" Patrick McHenry (NC-10) is demanding yes/no answers under oath from House Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Rahm Emanuel.

“Is the American public to believe that neither of you nor your staffs nor anyone associated with your staffs had prior knowledge or involvement with the release of Foley’s e-mails and/or explicit instant messages? Is the American public to believe that ABC News stumbled haphazardly on this story without Democratic assistance?” wrote McHenry, a freshman Republican who has emerged as an attack dog for the GOP.

I just watched Tucker Carlson's show on MSNBC and was astonished to see none other than closeted gay Republican Patrick McHenry (R-NC) vigorously defending Denny Hastert!

Have House Republicans gone completely insane???

McHenry has quite a reputation on Capitol Hill, according to The Hill, a pro-Republican publication: