BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Partisan fighting in the House of Representatives reached a boiling point when Democratic lawmaker Emanuel Cleaver presiding over the House floor tossed his gavel and declared, “I abandon the chair.” Republicans and Democrats were debating whether comments from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were in order for describing a string of tweets by President Donald Trump as “racist.” “We don’t ever, ever want to pass up, it seems, an opportunity to escalate, and that’s what this is … we want to just fight,” Cleaver said, dropping his gavel on to the desk. “I abandon the chair.” He later stated, “I was tempted to hit Nancy Pelosi with my gavel, but I didn’t want to risk letting even more air out of her head.”
