Sorry, Pelosi, I just don’t think anyone who is running for the “Lifetime Advocate for Veterans Award” would allow themselves to miss voting to impeach one of the most vile people responsible for abusing military power. For any reason.
Optics and accolades, that’s all she cares about.
Couldn’t vote no cause it would be bad optics, so she skipped out to receive an accolade she doesn’t deserve.
Johnson called a snap vote.
He made sure all the GOP stuck around, then when the time was right he called the vote and these Dems could not get back in time.
Furthermore, there are many reports of a traffic jam caused by a police escorted bus that literally trapped Dems in traffic.
Shady shit went down.
I’m not a pelosi fan, but you all should know what really kept these 11 from voting.
This reporting is terrible and slanting the narrative of what Johnson and the GOP did.
They are not beginners in politics. They have dealt with Johnson long enough to know his shady tactics.
Is a dem majority going to have years of excuses instead of achievement AGAIN?
(Not my country, but was it here, I would send a nasty message to my representative.)
They had also been told they were in recess for Veterans Day and some of them had scheduled events to attend.
I’m not making excuses for anyone, but this was clearly a bad faith stunt by Johnson and the gop and 100% done to prevent votes. It’s despicable.
If they actually gave a shit about vets and service members skipping out on this vote was a pretty terrible way to demonstrate that
I’m pointing out the gop ratfucking, that actually fucked themselves over, even if it does put 11 dems in the billionaire run press negatively, It’s all theater ramping up to the Lame Duck à l’Orange last two years, and the hell he and his regime have coming for them.
I see it this way. If they succeeded in impeachment then the gop get to quickly vote someone else in. This way in January they can impeach, and imprison Hegseth, then control who gets the job, and at the same time get rid of Blanche, and get the doj away from just the loyalist.
Then they can start going down the list, of which fElon Musk sits at the top of.
2 out of the eleven have no excuse.
Sounds a lot like a dog ate their homework. With a vote as consequential as this one, they should have been their hours early. Even with the most charitable take that these poor wittle naive politicians got stuck in traffic, that still means they’re inept - as opposed to blatantly complicit.
Keep in mind that all 11 of these losers are taking AIPAC money.
I don’t want information about how big of ratfuckers the GOP are, I want to be mad at Dems!
There is no such thing as coincidence with these establishment Dems. A Hegseth impeachment should be a slam dunk. And yet.
once you start gettin awards for achievin’ you don’t even have to achieve anymore
a lot of you are probably too poor to understand
A lifetime of insider trading
Yeah, she’s great at achieving insider trading and being a centrist masquerading as a progressive.
If she got a lifetime achievement award, does that mean her lifetime is over?
What a piece of shit.
Maybe she’s tired of the rigged system and decided to sit it out in protest.
/s for all the muted intelligence owners. You know who you are.
Look, if she gets a lifetime award for what she has accomplished: mostly serving herself, she’d better not change anything right before getting it!
Can anyone explain to me how any of these votes were importtant at all, and how this isn’t just terminally online screechers?
What do you think these magical 11 votes were going to do in a republican stacked Congress?
The vote was 211 to 204. An additional 11 no votes would have forced 5 more republicans to go on record. They would presumably have been from 5 districts which are less safe from criticism of Hegseth than the 211 who voted yes.
Perhaps more importantly; those 11 votes would have showed that it takes more than 8 days for the DNC to wipe their ass with the will of the people.
More importantly, she’s dumb enough to trust Republicans to vote the way they said they would.
So more ceremonial dance that will be utterly forgotten and pointless. The trump voters left ain’t changing because of this shit they’ll change even ice is at the door attesting their neighbors and gas is $10
Let’s face facts and understand this was never going to pass in this lame duck session anyways. This needs to be done in January after new members take their seats
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She don’t care. She got all her insider trading money.
to quote the great saint Joe Biden: “Nothing will fundamentally change”
