Tulsi Gabbard Instagram – “What I liked least about fighting for representation for Hawaii and what was so disheartening was the partisanship and the trivial, transactional nature of Washington gamesmanship. It angered me so much to see how much both Congress and Washington were like high school. Even on the House floor, I could take you there and sit in the gallery and point out to you all of the different cliques and where they gathered on the House floor, who’s talking to who, where, and who was talking about who and where. So much petty crap. Maybe it happens in a lot of workplaces, but we’re talking about the people’s House, where every single individual there was elected to do a job with serious consequences, not only related to war and peace, but related to education, health care, transportation, and all of these things that affect our everyday lives. It was just so disheartening and really unfortunate to see that there were so many people in Congress for the so-called glitz and glamor, the power and attention or the title — instead of actually doing the work of the people. Maybe they were doing the work of their party, but actually, being there to do the work of the people, more often than not, is lost. It’s only gotten worse, unfortunately.” — LTC Tulsi Gabbard (Army, OIF Veteran) @tulsigabbard