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‘I’m just furious’: Relations in Congress crack after attack
Politico ^ | January 29, 2021 | By SARAH FERRIS and MELANIE ZANONA

Posted on 01/30/2021 1:15:32 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

Some House lawmakers are privately refusing to work with each other. Others are afraid to be in the same room. Two members almost got into a fist fight on the floor. And the speaker of the House is warning that “the enemy is within.”

Forget Joe Biden’s calls for unity. Members of Congress couldn't be further divided.

Just weeks into the 117th Congress, the bedrock of relationships hasn't been on such shaky ground in more than a generation, with a sense of deep distrust and betrayal that lawmakers worry will linger for years. And those strains could carry long-term effects on an institution where relationships — and reputations — matter more than almost anything else.

“This is a real tension,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who was among the roughly two dozen Democrats barricaded into the chamber during the Jan. 6 riots and later contracted coronavirus after spending hours in a safe room with Republicans who refused to wear masks. “I don’t know if that’s repairable.

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TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: 117th; biden; fakenews; pollutico
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1 posted on 01/30/2021 1:15:32 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
“This is a real tension,” said Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), who was among the roughly two dozen Democrats barricaded into the chamber during the Jan. 6 riots and later contracted coronavirus after spending hours in a safe room with Republicans who refused to wear masks. “I don’t know if that’s repairable.

Oh noes! The horror! They refused to wear masks.

2 posted on 01/30/2021 1:21:13 AM PST by Dahoser (The left shows no signs that reason is going to get them to stop what they’re doing.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Tough bleet.

They’re both illegitimate for seating the election fraud.

We don’t care.


3 posted on 01/30/2021 1:28:07 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: MinorityRepublican

The “Reichstag Fire” narrative is poisonous and false but they’re going to keep pushing it as long as they think it’s a winning issue for them. (I kinda doubt that it is, but clearly the Democrat-Media Complex thinks it’s some kinda ultimate “gotcha” that’s going to finally and totally discredit the GOP, conservatives and Trump supporters once and for all.

Such absurdity.

Imagine for a second Republicans saying, “You Democrats bail out and promote looters and rioters and vandals who destroy our cities, attack our police and terrorize communities. We can’t just look past all that. We’re done with you.”

Or “Hey, you Democrats support, promote and fund the slaughter of the unborn... by the millions. We can’t just ignore or get past that.”


4 posted on 01/30/2021 1:30:29 AM PST by irishjuggler
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To: MinorityRepublican

Prediction: it WILL get worse.


5 posted on 01/30/2021 1:31:31 AM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (I'll be good, I will, I will!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just wait until they find out that the election was stolen.


6 posted on 01/30/2021 1:35:36 AM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Good. This is the way it ought to be when fundamental differences come to light, not guffawing over drinks after chamber debates. And such strained relationships are more apt to result in gridlock, the only blessing to come out of Congress.


7 posted on 01/30/2021 1:38:32 AM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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To: irishjuggler

Imagine for a second Republicans saying, “You Democrats bail out and promote looters and rioters and vandals who destroy our cities, attack our police and terrorize communities. We can’t just look past all that. We’re done with you.”

Or “Hey, you Democrats support, promote and fund the slaughter

They should say that. Should’ve a long time ago.


8 posted on 01/30/2021 1:41:51 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: irishjuggler
Imagine for a second Republicans saying, “You Democrats bail out and promote looters and rioters and vandals who destroy our cities, attack our police and terrorize communities. We can’t just look past all that. We’re done with you.”

Correct on all points. They have been told for years to stand up to those people and haven't done it. It is a real mess now and we're all going to have to pay for it.

9 posted on 01/30/2021 1:45:05 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
Prediction: it WILL get worse.

Unfortunately, yes.

10 posted on 01/30/2021 1:45:28 AM PST by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I recommend handing out canes to all members of Congress. It should at least provide us with amusement.


11 posted on 01/30/2021 2:07:36 AM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Where was this democrat ‘outrage’ when people were being murdered and massive property destruction was happening in the Spring & Summer last year?


12 posted on 01/30/2021 2:12:03 AM PST by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

It’s not on their radar except as a talking point until it affects them. That’s the case with everything. The demonrats never even cared that “one of them” (as a congressman), Steve Scalise, was shot. The GOP supports amnesty and only uses issues such as abortion and CommieCare as election points. They vote themselves pay raises no matter what’s happening to people financially in such times as these. Big Gov just keeps getting bigger. And they’re all complicit in what’s happened to the culture over the past years. I have nothing but contempt for almost all of them. Gun rights just keep being eroded while they demand added security for their own precious hides.


13 posted on 01/30/2021 2:32:40 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not to worry, the pubbies will be coming around to the Socialists thinking. Spineless pubbies!


14 posted on 01/30/2021 2:32:48 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT The NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper!)
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To: Altura Ct.

“Public servants “ my aunt fanny *spit*


15 posted on 01/30/2021 2:33:58 AM PST by mrsmel (I won’t be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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16 posted on 01/30/2021 2:34:07 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies!)
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To: MinorityRepublican
On one side are those who have deeply imbibed the revised history of America as a fount of slavery and white racism together with the evil ideologies that undergird it and inform Democrat politics and thinking. On the other are those who reject all of the former and view America as a fount of individual liberty for people of all skin colors.

The first side embrace a borderless view of the world as 'one,' population control schemes of every sort, gender-bending ,and Marxist oppressed/oppresser policies resulting in identification of mainly white males as domestic terrorists.

So is it any wonder that ideology-informed Democrats see evil and white terrorism everywhere?

BTW, according to the research writers of The Black Book of Communism, upon seizure of Russia, Communists (just like their contempories--Democrats) saw evil everywhere. The result: genocide and other crimes against humanity.

17 posted on 01/30/2021 2:35:50 AM PST by spirited irish ( )
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To: ifinnegan

It’s a “politico” article, i.e., BS gaslighting. No one believes it and if House members aren’t getting along, I welcome it, they’ve been far too cozy with each other for too long.


18 posted on 01/30/2021 2:39:19 AM PST by Amberdawn (Want To Honor Our Troops? Then Be A Citizen Worth Fighting For.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim

I would very much like to see a couple of Democrats get punched in the mouth on the House floor.


19 posted on 01/30/2021 2:44:51 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin

I can only hope...

We the People are not remotely represented by the demonic children in DC.


20 posted on 01/30/2021 2:46:41 AM PST by HypatiaTaught (president PingPong of the divided states of China)
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