“Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote,” one critic said about the House minority leader, who wants to be speaker. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”
As House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries seeks to become speaker when Democrats retake Congress in January, critics questioned his leadership Tuesday after the Republican-led lower chamber effectively blocked a bid to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by just seven votes—an outcome that may have been averted if more Democrats showed up to vote.
The 211-204 procedural vote effectively torpedoed Congressman Thomas Massie’s attempt to impeach Hegseth by sending the outgoing Kentucky Republican’s resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, where it will likely gather dust during the remainder of the GOP-controlled congressional term.
I’ll drag him for being a corpo stooge. Stop being a sell-out, jeff!
He’s never going to stop. He made it this far being one.
Is Jeffries the new rotating villain?
Nah this is just what you are supposed to do after you vote for the lesser of two evils, you try and make the lesser even more lesser.
It’s why it was crazy for people to not vote for Kamala because the Democrats didn’t promise to stop genociding and in the process get the guy in who wants to genocide harder.
what you are supposed to do
What is?
Jeffries and schumer need to go yesterMANYYEARSAGO, but I’m always cautious of Massie… Seemingly on the right side of history on one thing with the “courage” to call a pedophile a pedophile (in this one case at least) but he still has a lot of fucked up standard nutjob conservative ideas unfortunately.
Is anyone familiar enough with procedure here, did he need to call this when he did? Is there precedent for maybe working with dem leaders on timing, directly or through back channels, if he truly wanted this to pass? I don’t know enough about the other dems that missed here, any of them those “blue dog” dipshits?
Because otherwise, Massie wants to be the guy seen as stirring shit up, but without ever actually toppling the regime? It’s effective at taking wind out of the sails and giving the illusion that hegseth has support to folks paying half attention.
In any event, tie Haley Stevens to Nancy pelosi and throw them in the middle of the ocean. And let their only rescue support be chuck schumer as navigator on a coast guard ship piloted by Hakeem jefferies, 400 miles away.
Massie hates Trump. He’s Republican and I vehemently disagree with him on many issues, but he’s not MAGA. Massie is the kind of politician I can disagree with without hating.
But there was also an opportunity for the Republicans here. If the impeachment had gone through and the Senate fast-tracked the trial and voted to remove him, the GOP Senators could have done some real damage control for their brand while punishing Trump for what he did to them AND getting to confirm the next SecDef.
First order of business for whoever replaces that twat Jeffries in 2027, bring back remote/proxy voting. There are so many antiquated aspects to our government that desperately need updating. Remote voting is far from the most important, but it is the one that will help make the others a reality.
Why would Israel-funded politicians want to impeach the guy who killed Iranians?
AIPAC Shakur didn’t fight to impeach the guy who attacked Iran?
Can’t imagine why.
As few days as our Congress is in session, I don’t think it is too much to ask our Representatives to be present in or around the Capitol during business hours unless it is a life or death emergency. My employer wouldn’t keep me around if I was slacking off whenever I felt like it.
We should assume it is deliberate. There will be a lot of “rotating villains”, “parliamentarians” and “bipartisanship” in the coming congress. Any excuse to not get anything good passed.
All of it is bullshit. Many democrats want to protect the status quo in spite of the popular mandate for change.
Don’t give them the benefit of the doubt.
Fucking Hydra bullshit. Hate it.
We need to expose and get rid of all of them.
Not present: Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
Made me laugh. Of course she’s on the list.
Just another big “fuck you” on her way out. Useless cunt
11 dem no show, i wonder who side are they even on.
Israel’s. Most were at an Israeli fund raising event.
1 was recovering from surgery.
I’m very disappointed in my rep, Melanie Stansbury. She won’t get my vote again. I wrote a message to her on the government contact form, saying as much. Fat lot of good that will do.
Get ready for another year of protesting even with dems in Congress.
Dems in Congress only means there’s a chance people will listen as opposed to before when there was no chance.
We are NOT out of the woods yet.
Americans aren’t getting out of the woods. Republicans aren’t leaving the White House regardless of what happens.
A few months ago comments like this were saying that the election was cancelled… Turns out being a doomer doesn’t actually accomplish anything.
We need new leadership!
Chris Van Hollen is calling his colleagues: https://www.ms.now/news/van-hollen-schumer-senate-majority-leader-democrats
Let’s get the new leadership we so desperately need!
7 calls to help replace Schumer and Jeffries:
- Call Ayanna Pressley and encourage her to run for speaker of the house. She would be a great leader in addition to being the first black speaker of the house - which eliminates Hakeem Jeffries false claim only racists oppose him.
https://pressley.house.gov/contact-us/
- Call Senator Chris Van Hollen and encourage him to run for Senate leader to oust Chuck Schumer.
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/ Numbers at the bottom of the page
- Call your representative and urge them to support Ayanna Pressley for speaker of the house.
4 & 5) Call your senators and demand they support Chris Van Hollen and oppose Chuck Schumer for Senate leader.
http://5calls.org/issue/house-senate-leadership/
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Call Chuck Schumer and demand he step down as Senate leader: (202) 224-6542
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Call Hakeem Jeffries and demand he step down as house leader: (202) 225-5936
Repeat every day until we have new leaders.
I understand that 10 of the 11 Dem no-shows take money from Israel’s super pac, AIPAC.
I’m happy to be corrected, but that is my understanding.
Follow the money.
They have a new name
Traitors?
United Democracy Project PAC
up there with the people’s democratic republic of north korea
Which is?
The 11 Democratic members of the House who were not present for the procedural vote on the Pete Hegseth impeachment resolution are:
- Julia Brownley (Calif.)
- Lou Correa (Calif.) — note: the report notes he was recovering from a medical procedure and unable to travel
- Laura Gillen (NY)
- Steven Horsford (Nev.)
- Jonathan Jackson (Ill.)
- Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
- Brittany Pettersen (Colo.)
- Melanie Stansbury (NM)
- Haley Stevens (Mich.)
- Marilyn Strickland (Wash.)
- Frederica Wilson (Fla.)
Fuck haley stevens what a stupid bitch
A part of kegsbreath’s impeachment is he’s working for Israel’s interests rather than the US’, so of course AIPAC goons like Stevens and Pelosi are gonna be absent for his impeachment vote.
And jeffries. https://www.newsweek.com/hakeem-jeffries-aipac-israel-house-speaker-chuck-schumer-12679076
they funnel it through individual donors but yeah:
OpenSecrets told Newsweek on Friday that the $49,565 attributed to AIPAC represents money from individual donors whose contributions were facilitated via the organization, rather than money donated directly by AIPAC. It said it groups those contributions under the AIPAC umbrella because AIPAC facilitated them. Jeffries separately received $11,700 in direct contributions from AIPAC’s PAC, according to OpenSecrets.
A separate OpenSecrets historical table puts Jeffries’ total from pro-Israel PACs and individuals at $1,741,230 through the 2024 election cycle. That placed Jeffries 11th among the top 20 recipients listed and slightly ahead of fellow New York Democrat Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, at $1,727,974.
Of course it includes Pelosi. Stupid leech.
Wasn’t Jeffries himself also not present?
yup. at the same aipac-sponsored event iirc
Majority of dems who didn’t vote, also had funding to their campaigns through aipac. Looking at you Marylin Strickland.
Not only that, they were attending an AIPAC event instead of being there to vote.
Are you fucking kidding me
Some of the 11 Democrats who missedTuesday’s vote to advance the impeachment of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were reportedly attending an event hosted by a “front group” for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, commonly known as AIPAC.
Israel says Smegmeth stays so he stays. Can’t risk peace breaking out.
Majority who voted probably also had aipac funding.
