“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.
This take is just dumb. The impeachment bid was brought to the floor by an exiting Republican. Considering the current makeup of the house, this was never going to pass. It has zero to do with Jeffries.
When leadership can’t get everyone on the same page, people start asking serious questions. What do you think this vote says about the party’s direction?
So where are all the “Fuck people who didn’t vote cause of Gaza!” pieces of shit at?
Probably the same place these fuckers were.
Edit. Come on, there’s got to me more.
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.
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
Which is?
Traitors?
United Democracy Project PAC
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
Of course it includes Pelosi. Stupid leech.
Wasn’t Jeffries himself also not present?
It’s fine, y’all relax. Remember we don’t take back Congress until January. Let them start planning now to nail the bastard when there’s zero need for any republikkkan or aipac votes.
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.
Jeffires is comprised by both Israel and Trump. Secret meetings with Kushner and sucking Bibi’s dick, swearing off getting justice and calling it revenge. You could fill a book with good reasons why he should not only never have additional power, he should be primaried and replaced asap.
Jeffires is comprised
The word you’re looking for is compromised.
Stupid swipe got me again
Haven’t even made it to January yet and we have “concern” and “furrowed brows” as the dems usual course of failure.
It’s still the same Congress as it was two weeks ago. The new Congress has no power until January 3, when they are sworn in.
Yeah, it’s the old Congress, but this happened in the House under the same guy they want to have lead the House Dems of the next Congress, too. Jeffries not even getting people to show up to keep this alive should be taken as a prime example for why he shouldn’t get to be the next Speaker of the House.
You’re preaching to the choir. Many of us are doing everything we can to get this paid-for shill out of the Speaker role.
Jeffries has taken a LOT of money from not only AIPAC, but Palantir, a company that is making insane profits out of the war in Iran.
Neither Palantir nor AIPAC want Jeffries to allow any censure for Hegseth or anyone else involved in the war, or for anyone advancing their own profiteering to suffer any kind of consequences at all.
I guarantee if the 11 Dems had shown up to vote, the 5 NV Repubs would have shown up too, so its a moot point. The outcome was known before the vote even went to the floor.
The congresscritters know this as well so they do things like:
- cancel each others vote out. So and so on one side has a wedding to attend, so and so on the other side has their kids first recital. They both agree to not show up
- their constituency aka campaign funds are in danger if they vote a certain way. They are certain to lose, so they abstain so when the next election cycle comes up they can say they didnt vote for that.
I guarantee if the 11 Dems had shown up to vote, the 5 NV Repubs would have shown up too, so its a moot point. The outcome was known before the vote even went to the floor.
Not necessarily. This was not a vote on the impeachment itself; this was a vote on whether to send it to committee (where it would obviously time out and die) or to advance it for a vote. Impeachments are privileged and handled differently than a regular bill.
Had ALL the Dems showed up, the vote on sending it to committee would have passed by too narrow a margin, and the process would have automatically progressed to a floor vote on the impeachment itself.
While this is no doubt true, it is a terrible signal to send after voters have a resounding permission to tear down the old corrupt system. Practically their first action after the election is to signal “business as usual”.
I can smell bitter disappointment in the air as to the future.
Jefferies is a piece of shit and you can gaurntee that the midterms will have been for nothing and America won’t exist at the end of trymps term if these feckless republicans stay in power. Jeffries and Schumer are more GOP than they are Dem and will get us all killed through their incompetence.
Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote. He told people to ‘vote their conscience,’ and 11 members of his caucus didn’t show up,” writer Laura Bassett wrote on social media. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”
Jeffries is a piece of shit and shouldn’t be anywhere near any leadership position…
But whipping votes is the job of the second in line…
A job with the literal title “minority whip”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Clark
We can’t just focus on two popular names, we need to flush all the neoliberals out of leadership.
All that being said, votes just happen whenever with no warning. It’s way past time that these votes need to be scheduled in advance. Instead of “vote starts now” at least “vote starts in 24 hour, exactly at ____ o’clock”
Once the main vote happens, there can be exceptions for follow ups, like “next vote in one hour”
The current way shit is done is fucking stupid
A job with the literal title “minority whip”…
That is not the official title for that position, though it’s commonly called that. The official title is Assistant Minority Leader, because the person in that position reports to the House Minority Leader. Katherine Clark shares responsibility for this failure, but the buck stops at the top, and that’s Jeffries. It’s literally part of Jeffries’ job to tell the Assistant which votes should get whipped. The Assistant doesn’t typically decide that on their own.
That’s why majority leader is an important position. Because they’re SUPPOSED to keep this kind of childish bullshit from happening. If you elect adults, this doesn’t happen. If you elect children (including those AARP age), you get the level of administration you voted for.
This was great strategy on the part of Massie to support the incoming wave of progressives,
Yep. This is making a great case for replacing current congressional leadership with new blood.
“vote harder” is our next step, right?
