I am beyond angry at the 11 Democrats who didn't show up to impeach Hegseth. One of them was Nancy Pelosi. Shame on her and the others. I wonder honestly if we have anyone in Congress up to the task of fighting this regime. The feckless Dems fail AGAIN.
Every current Member also has lived in DC and had the same commute to work for at least TWO YEARS. I've lived on Capitol Hill for decades and there was nothing special about yesterday's congestion.
It's like the people in a NYC office I once worked in, on the IRT subway line, who'd arrive twenty minutes late saying "I missed the subway." THE IRT RUNS ABOUT EVERY FOUR SECONDS DUIRNG MORNING RUSH HOUR!
The 11 need to answer, but painting the rest with a broad brush is not warranted. Hopefully this will come up again in the new Congress and even have a whisper of a chance to make a vote to convict in the Senate interesting!
But, one of them was held up by a traffic accident, and still tried to get there to vote, but was blocked by a Moses Johnson decision. The rest? One had a medical issue. But Pelosi? She was at a veterans' thing - and not interested in protecting them from Hegseth or protecting the current military and future veterans.
"disregarding congressionally mandated safeguards against civilian deaths and casualties, including by gutting funding for the Army database that tracks them, eliminating a majority of the staff overseeing civilian harm mitigation and firing military lawyers across several branches”"
As a former military spouse, and with multiple active-duty military members in my extended family, this just galls me to the core.
Astounding, criminal incompetence.
Hopefully Hegseth will be held accountable in January. He should be referred to the ICC for war crimes. Period.
"As for Democrats, its caucus organization had better improve lest its members incur the wrath of the voters "
As the D leadership KNEW this vote was coming, I am baffled that the leadership failed to bring EVERY D member into the House to pass this Impeachment. (Are extenuating circumstances possible?)
‘Got stuck in traffic’ is no excuse. I live in the DC area and have experienced horrendous traffic snarls. But if I missed a major meeting downtown and gave the excuse of ‘stuck in traffic’, I’d be done.
I only heard that this is a reason going around in this thread today...after all the brohaha and kerfuffule, i cant even believe I am hearing such nonsense.
Once again, choosing their party cult over national responsibility, the deluded MAGA majority passed the job of doing the right thing onto the Democrats in Jan.
That's fine. We'll be happy to bring patriotic, moral leadership back to America's military.
Once again, shooting ourselves in both feet over and over. This will come up in January and pass overwhelmingly. In this time of transition, we should be holding our fire. I am really discouraged by US.
Dems that missed this vote should be named, shamed and remembered. No excuses. And ALL the ditto head Republicans must be named, shamed and remembered. Most especially Jim Jordon the Trump enablers' next leader and current Chair of the Judiciary Committee where this bill was sent to die shamefully without a hearing or collection of evidence.
When Raskin becomes Judiciary Chair on Jan. 4, the Committee will finally be able to detail and make public just how criminal and incompetent is the Trump Administration BUT IT MUST ALSO detail and make public just how criminal and incompetent has been Trump's star enabler Jim Jordon and his Judiciary Committee these past two years.
I saw one commenter on another Substack this morning who said there was reporting that at least 5 of the Dems who didn't vote on the resolution were deliberately prevented from getting to the vote. If this is actually true we need investigation and accountability. Let's face it - the underlying goal of the tRump regime is to harm as many people (non-oligarch people) as possible. No doubt tRump is happy with the increase in suicides.
I read a piece by … someone yesterday explaining that Jeffries doesn’t lead. He leaves it to the committees. He has no agenda, he doesn’t DO any of the things Nancy did. And he’s “nice”. He sounds completely feckless and yet we’re allowing a nearly 90-year-old woman to force him on us whether we like it or not. Why? Why are we allowing that? I guess people are just tired, but I think we need to yell louder.
As another poster on Substack wrote: why are the leaders in Congress not being chosen based upon skills and qualifications? Why are Jeffries and Schumer the anointed leaders without question?
Considering the election results and the inherent message, Jeffries and Schumer should NOT be the leaders of the next Congress. Should they be allowed to continue in leadership, this election result will be wasted.
'Had the full contingent of Democrats shown up, the motion to divert the articles would have failed and the full House would have voted on impeachment'
One one hand, some GOP reps also didn't show up.. if they had, even these 11 wouldn't have made a difference.
One the other hand, this is yet another sign that Hakeem Jeffries is not the leader for the moment. Did he even try to rally the votes for this?
The fact that they will get another chance ta this doesn't negate the fact that this was an obvious fail for Jeffries.
It's inexcusable...it's not like everyone didn't know this was coming.
Of course Haley 'Fetterwoman' Stevens is therein the missing list....and Pelosi?
Fight for accountability! Just please not too close to rush hour.
Zeteo's Prem Thakker (in Rubin's linked article)
Split screen at Capitol Hill today:
Hakeem Jeffries is arguing that he should be the leader of the Democrats — and then, as the current leader, he couldn’t get enough Democrats to show up to impeach Pete Hegseth
The MAGA crowd’s absolute disregard for human life and dignity both for vets and the poor is incomprehensible to me. Shame on everyone involved in this administration. As for no-shows for the Impeachment hearing, I wonder if Johnson kept the details under wraps specifically to avoid a full house.
Democrats seem determined to f*** it all up before they even get started. See also: Trump’s data center push in which multiple Dems voted yes. There is so much rot.
Please get some reps and senators statements on why they would do something so idiotic, Jen.
I am beyond angry at the 11 Democrats who didn't show up to impeach Hegseth. One of them was Nancy Pelosi. Shame on her and the others. I wonder honestly if we have anyone in Congress up to the task of fighting this regime. The feckless Dems fail AGAIN.
Rush to judgment. Better off after Jan. 1.
Having worked in DC many years, I can commiserate with navigation problems and give them the benefit of the doubt.
They should have slept on a cot in their office, THAT IS HOW IMPORTANT THIS IS!
STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR THEM AND DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY AND RESPONSIBILITY!
Every current Member also has lived in DC and had the same commute to work for at least TWO YEARS. I've lived on Capitol Hill for decades and there was nothing special about yesterday's congestion.
Blaming traffic is worse than the dog ate my homework.
It's like the people in a NYC office I once worked in, on the IRT subway line, who'd arrive twenty minutes late saying "I missed the subway." THE IRT RUNS ABOUT EVERY FOUR SECONDS DUIRNG MORNING RUSH HOUR!
On a bad day even metro gets stalled hours at a time.
I also think we're much better off bringing it after Jan 1, when we control Congress.
No.
The 11 need to answer, but painting the rest with a broad brush is not warranted. Hopefully this will come up again in the new Congress and even have a whisper of a chance to make a vote to convict in the Senate interesting!
But, one of them was held up by a traffic accident, and still tried to get there to vote, but was blocked by a Moses Johnson decision. The rest? One had a medical issue. But Pelosi? She was at a veterans' thing - and not interested in protecting them from Hegseth or protecting the current military and future veterans.
We ALL deserve better than this dumpster fire (well, except for the MAGA cult who voted for this).
"disregarding congressionally mandated safeguards against civilian deaths and casualties, including by gutting funding for the Army database that tracks them, eliminating a majority of the staff overseeing civilian harm mitigation and firing military lawyers across several branches”"
As a former military spouse, and with multiple active-duty military members in my extended family, this just galls me to the core.
Astounding, criminal incompetence.
Hopefully Hegseth will be held accountable in January. He should be referred to the ICC for war crimes. Period.
Need to make an official record. Take testimony. IMHO the house managers during Trump 45 were negligent. Failed to call wirtnesses.
In addition, all the world's a stage....
"As for Democrats, its caucus organization had better improve lest its members incur the wrath of the voters "
As the D leadership KNEW this vote was coming, I am baffled that the leadership failed to bring EVERY D member into the House to pass this Impeachment. (Are extenuating circumstances possible?)
And why does the leader need to have told them to come? Should they have known what an important vote is and shown up themselves?
It 's on each individual and it's on Jeffries. One of his most important jobs is rallying his party to important votes.
Even if they will certainly get another shot at this, the political optics of this are terrible.
I am going to call every single one of these no-shows and ask them if they intend to show up for work after having MOST OF THE YEAR OFF!!!
good idea!
"fight for accountability and affordability, even when its inconvenient!" this is my new bumper sticker.
or to quote the name of a punk rock album I have, "give me convenience or give me death!'
‘Got stuck in traffic’ is no excuse. I live in the DC area and have experienced horrendous traffic snarls. But if I missed a major meeting downtown and gave the excuse of ‘stuck in traffic’, I’d be done.
I only heard that this is a reason going around in this thread today...after all the brohaha and kerfuffule, i cant even believe I am hearing such nonsense.
I wonder who are the 11?
It's all over online:
Julia Brownley (California)
J. Luis Correa (California)
Laura Gillen (New York)
Steven Horsford (Nevada)
Jonathan Jackson (Illinois)
Nancy Pelosi (California)
Brittany Pettersen (Colorado)
Melanie Stansbury (New Mexico)
Haley Stevens (Michigan)
Marilyn Strickland (Washington)
Frederica Wilson (Florida)
....Haley Stevens proved once again her unfitness for office.
Once again, choosing their party cult over national responsibility, the deluded MAGA majority passed the job of doing the right thing onto the Democrats in Jan.
That's fine. We'll be happy to bring patriotic, moral leadership back to America's military.
Once again, shooting ourselves in both feet over and over. This will come up in January and pass overwhelmingly. In this time of transition, we should be holding our fire. I am really discouraged by US.
If they don’t show up, what good are they? And what good are their leaders? I’m absolutely disgusted.
Dems that missed this vote should be named, shamed and remembered. No excuses. And ALL the ditto head Republicans must be named, shamed and remembered. Most especially Jim Jordon the Trump enablers' next leader and current Chair of the Judiciary Committee where this bill was sent to die shamefully without a hearing or collection of evidence.
When Raskin becomes Judiciary Chair on Jan. 4, the Committee will finally be able to detail and make public just how criminal and incompetent is the Trump Administration BUT IT MUST ALSO detail and make public just how criminal and incompetent has been Trump's star enabler Jim Jordon and his Judiciary Committee these past two years.
I saw one commenter on another Substack this morning who said there was reporting that at least 5 of the Dems who didn't vote on the resolution were deliberately prevented from getting to the vote. If this is actually true we need investigation and accountability. Let's face it - the underlying goal of the tRump regime is to harm as many people (non-oligarch people) as possible. No doubt tRump is happy with the increase in suicides.
THIS DID NOT MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE 11 DEMOCRATS WERE NOT IN ATTENDANCE: it lost by 7 votes! This is a failure on the leader. Step aside, Jeffries.
I read a piece by … someone yesterday explaining that Jeffries doesn’t lead. He leaves it to the committees. He has no agenda, he doesn’t DO any of the things Nancy did. And he’s “nice”. He sounds completely feckless and yet we’re allowing a nearly 90-year-old woman to force him on us whether we like it or not. Why? Why are we allowing that? I guess people are just tired, but I think we need to yell louder.
Exactly.
As another poster on Substack wrote: why are the leaders in Congress not being chosen based upon skills and qualifications? Why are Jeffries and Schumer the anointed leaders without question?
Considering the election results and the inherent message, Jeffries and Schumer should NOT be the leaders of the next Congress. Should they be allowed to continue in leadership, this election result will be wasted.
'Had the full contingent of Democrats shown up, the motion to divert the articles would have failed and the full House would have voted on impeachment'
One one hand, some GOP reps also didn't show up.. if they had, even these 11 wouldn't have made a difference.
One the other hand, this is yet another sign that Hakeem Jeffries is not the leader for the moment. Did he even try to rally the votes for this?
The fact that they will get another chance ta this doesn't negate the fact that this was an obvious fail for Jeffries.
It's inexcusable...it's not like everyone didn't know this was coming.
Of course Haley 'Fetterwoman' Stevens is therein the missing list....and Pelosi?
No Squad member missed it.
Fight for accountability! Just please not too close to rush hour.
Zeteo's Prem Thakker (in Rubin's linked article)
Split screen at Capitol Hill today:
Hakeem Jeffries is arguing that he should be the leader of the Democrats — and then, as the current leader, he couldn’t get enough Democrats to show up to impeach Pete Hegseth
Of course we punt toattacking Jeffries and pushing for the setback of our agenda in the House because that is who we are: easily swayed by trolls.
Yes the trolls.
Like Jennifer Rubin herself.
Like Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove - Congresswomen from California (in article Rubin linked)
Like longtime Democratic consultant and strategist, who worked on several successful Democratic campaigns (in article Rubin linked)
If anyone 'setback' the agenda, its these 11 missing reps and Jeffries himself....obviously.
In the military, what just happened in Congress would be called Dereliction of Duty. What a disgrace.
The MAGA crowd’s absolute disregard for human life and dignity both for vets and the poor is incomprehensible to me. Shame on everyone involved in this administration. As for no-shows for the Impeachment hearing, I wonder if Johnson kept the details under wraps specifically to avoid a full house.
I guess Republicans still do not understand the citizens so on January 3rd 2027 complete the job.
11 democrats not voting???? Not a good message after Tuesday’s “blunami”.
What kept the Democrats from being there? It's hard to believe that they didn't make an effort to support the impeachment vote.
Democrats seem determined to f*** it all up before they even get started. See also: Trump’s data center push in which multiple Dems voted yes. There is so much rot.
Please get some reps and senators statements on why they would do something so idiotic, Jen.