re: #373 Political Atheist

(CNN) - For all the stalemate in the fiscal cliff negotiations, there were some heated moments, too.

A Democratic source familiar with one particular exchange told CNN that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were sitting on a sofa in the White House.

House Speaker John Boehner breezed in and his first words to Reid were “Go f*** yourself.”

Boehner’s comment came after Reid took to the Senate floor on Thursday and characterized the House speaker’s handling of his chamber as a “dictatorship.”

Reid responded to Boehner’s confrontational tone by laughing, the Democratic source said, though a GOP source who was there said he didn’t think Reid was all that happy.

“The exchange continued, and it didn’t get any better for Reid,” the GOP source said.

Congress is a good bit nastier than it used to be.