Relevant supplement to this
Lawmakers Report That Some Democrats Missed Hegseth Impeachment Vote to Attend Event for ‘AIPAC Front Group’
The traffic:
So, the israelis threw a party way the fuck in nowhere right before a critical vote, and there just happened to be a huge traffic jam blocking their only path back to vote?
So, throw a party then crash a truck to continue their war of genocide uninterrupted. It’s what their fictional gawd told them to do. Everything is justified by a fictional being that lives in their religious psychopathy.
On its face, this seems like a dirty trick by Republicans. Mike Johnson called a recess, then after members left, called a snap vote on whether to proceed with impeachment with no warning. This entire spectacle reeks of a planned Republican scheme to try to influence the outcome through procedure and sow division within the Democratic party. The Republican House caucus was obviously made aware this was happening so they would stick around.
That any House Speaker can call a snap vote like this is a serious problem for our democracy.
Can we just start eating people
Easy to spatchcock when they’ve got no spine
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It wasn’t an impeachment vote. It was a vote to send it to committee which is what the Republicans wanted to delay. The vote was moved up and closed early by Johnson. In all honesty, any impeachment needs to be done in January because it will actually pass the Senate and Dems would control the approval of the nomination.
Why is a vote allowed to go through it representatives are stuck in traffic
Because Johnson. He was aware people were en route and closed the vote.
Its also misleading, its “some of the 11”. Pelosi was in CA for a veterans day event, another was going in for a medical procedure, another had an unrelated (and unspecified) personal emergency, like 4 said they were stuck in traffic (motorcade blocking traffic), and I think it was 2 at the AIPAC event.
Not excusing anything here BTW, just pointing out the title is kinda shitty.
I mean, everyone not being in attendance can’t automatically delay votes, or anyone could unilaterally block a vote by just not showing up. However, I think we all know why the vote was moved up and closed early - it’s specifically because they were stuck in traffic.
Were any of the House republicans also caught in that traffic jam?
7 Republicans missed the vote but don’t know why.
Why? Probably dead and playing weekend at bernies with the bodies.
insert Mitch McConnell pic here
These people are miscreants of the worst kind for this. In addition, though, maybe we should update the rules so people don’t have to be in one fucking building all at the same time in order for our government to function. We have the technology, people. We can make it better, faster, and stronger than what it is now.
Actually, I’d like to keep it that way for now. These fuckers use Microsoft for their confidential emails. I don’t want to imagine the huge security issues they’d create in voting for budgets and legislation.
Budgets and Legislation are all televised on CSPAN already. It’s public information. For the super secret war plans, they use the ultra-secure Signal app.
How many of their constituents will remember this 23 months from now?
This is the same quality of excuse as saying “the dog ate my homework”.
Well sure they wernt going to admit it was actually because they were busy at thier hate group meeting.
Oh look, the controlled opposition reared its ugly head even faster than I thought.
Voting matters, but not just at the main elections. Building a party that is a coherent vision is needed too. The D have their own corruption to weed out.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) was in San Francisco attending a Veterans Day celebration, where she was being honored for her advocacy on behalf of veterans.
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi returned to San Francisco to join and honor local veterans at Swords to Plowshares’ 30th Annual Veterans Day Celebration tonight, an important and longstanding district tradition she regularly attends and will mark for the last time as a Member of Congress by receiving the Lifetime Advocate for Veterans Award,” Pelosi spokesperson Ian Krager told The Sun.
Uh huh. Okay then.
…this, this is my ass…
