you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 69 points 23 hours ago (14 children)

Rep. Stansbury (D-NM) was not allowed to enter the building due to a car accident blocking traffic. She recorded a no vote once she was allowed access, and posted a press release explaining the situation on her website. This was not a vote for impeachment, but a vote to refer the articles to the judiciary committee. Stansbury takes NO aipac money, and is fully on board with impeaching Hegseth

  • source
  • hideshow 14 child comments
  • [–] 38 points 23 hours ago* (13 children)

    Yeah, but you're just supposed to read the headline and get disengaged from the party....

    Not actually find out what happened.

    /s

    I picked the first name and searched if they made a comment:

    https://www.instagram.com/p/DflU4LCu7Mm/

    Apparently Johnson rushed the vote and people didn't even know it was happening or had a chance to vote. So multiple people who were trying to get to chambers from offices even didn't have time.

    Edit:

    And the one calling fellow Dems "raggedy" takes AIPAC money...

    https://primarydemocrats.com/r/sydney-kamlager-dove-ca.html

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

    Shouldn't Democrats have been expecting this, though, and planned accordingly? Seems like Jeffries missed a big chance here.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    Why would they even care? If it passed, the Republican majority would ram it through, impeach Hegseth, and let Trump appoint an even bigger asshole to run the military before the new session starts. They can do all of this in the next session and also be able to block whatever regime moron Trump tries to fill the position with.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 10 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

    Get out the flow chart

    Republican does bad thing > blame democrats for not stopping it

    About-to-retire Republican introduces articles of impeachment into an all-Republican congress months before it swings Democrat, Republican speaker rushes vote to ensure minority Democrats can't vote, it gets stuck in procedural hell, blame Democrats.

    Literally only Stevens, who is effectively out of the party, has no valid reason for not voting.

    Lou Correa — California: Will do medical procedure soon, doctor won't allow travel.
    Frederica Wilson — Florida: The evening before, she was attending an inauguration ceremony of veteran homes in Florida.
    Steven Horsford — Nevada: Personal emergency. Submitted statement to the record afterwards. Seems to have attended a press conference earlier in the day, so something urgent must have come up in between.
    Julia Brownley — California: "As I and many of my colleagues were rushing to the floor to support Hegseth’s impeachment, Mike Johnson closed the vote before we could."
    Jonathan Jackson — Illinois: Traffic incident, registered his vote to the record afterwards.
    Laura Gillen — New York: Same as Jackson.
    Melanie Stansbury — New Mexico: Same as Jackson.
    Marilyn Strickland — Washington: Same as Jackson, "missed vote by one minute." Posted about impeaching Hegseth just hours before the vote.
    Brittany Pettersen — Colorado: "Denied the ability," probably same as Jackson. Has previously been voting just weeks after childbirth, so she is not the one who bails.
    Nancy Pelosi — California: Received lifetime award at a Veterans Day Celebration in her district.
    Haley Stevens — Michigan: "[H]ung out during votes in the Republicans' restricted room off the House floor."
    
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 20 hours ago*

    A good time to remind people that the reason each House representative has to represent so many people compared to when the system was designed...

    Is, and I shit you not, they couldn't fit anymore chairs into that room.

    We're decades past when requiring in person votes made sense. It should at least be able to be done remotely from an office in the home state, but really should be a transparent app.

    Their votes are public, we don't have to worry about hacking because they can just say "that's not how I voted".

    There's no reason to keep acting like it's the 1800s, but we are.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 8 points 18 hours ago* (1 child)

    About-to-retire Republican introduces articles of impeachment into an all-Republican congress months before it swings Democrat

    Massie also tried to impeach Hegseth earlier this year, before he lost his primary. His motives in this are genuine.

    (Johnson adjouned the House in order to prevent a vote on it back in September, so what happened just now was Massie reintroducing it literally the first chance he got.)

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (2 children)

    “didnt know” He absolutely knew.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 child)

    How are you so sure when you can't even get that representatives pronouns right?

    Like, did you just not click the link and assume it was a man, or intentionally misgendering?

    Or is it a reading comprehension fail and think that referred to Johnson?

    Just what are you even talking about?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [+] 1 point 22 hours ago* (1 child)
  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago

    Apparently Johnson rushed the vote and people didn’t even know it was happening

    Right...

    Johnson, the Speaker of the House, is the one that starts the vote. He rushed it.

    People didn't know that it was happening, due to Johnson rushing it.

    That honestly wasn't obvious?

    Do you comprehend it now?

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (-1 replies)
  • load more comments (-1 replies)