'I'm just furious': Relations in Congress crack after attack

[brooklynite]

Politico

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. It is certainly a massive chasm that exists right now between a large majority of the Republican caucus and all of us Democrats across the ideological spectrum.”

The friction is particularly intense in the House, where two-thirds of the GOP conference voted to overturn the election just hours after lawmakers were attacked by a mob that demanded that very action. The position of those 139 members is now threatening to upend decades of relationships in the House, forcing long-time colleagues to work through their raw emotions and palpable anger in the weeks since the attack.

[femmedem]

1. Who could work well with anyone who gave them coronavirus because they refused to wear a mask

in a crowded, unventilated space? And that's not even taking into account silence--or worse--in the face of the Big Lie.

I mean, love of our country would force me to do it, if I were in Congress. But my anger and distrust would never fade.

[Celerity]

2. Q-MAGAt Taylor Greene and Bang Bang Boebert need to be tossed the fuck out of Congress!

they are both ENTIRELY crazy and hateful enough to sneak a gun on the floor (or in the halls) and snipe of Pelosi or AOC or others

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. Borrowing from and expanding on Nevilledog's name for her: Moron Traitor Greene.

[GoCubsGo]

6. What a fucking sociopath. nt

[Leith]

7. Moron's poster is a blatant threat to the 3 congresswomen

and should be taken as such. Capitol security needs to keep Greene and Boebert under close scrutiny.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. K&R

[KY_EnviroGuy]

4. Putin and a mob of plutocrats say "mission accomplished".

KY..........