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Lawmakers Report That Some Democrats Missed Hegseth Impeachment Vote to Attend Event for ‘AIPAC Front Group’ | Common Dreams (www.commondreams.org)
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The event was hosted by the group Elect Democratic Women, which funneled nearly $2.4 million from AIPAC into congressional races this cycle.

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[+] -12 points 1 day ago (17 children)

Doesn’t matter, nobody on the GOP side except Massie switched, so this was irrelevant. If he’d had the votes this would be a story. He didn’t.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    This is missing the forest for the trees

    The issue is not they missed the vote, it's why they did and what that says more broadly about the party's capture.

    3 of those house members are explicitly on the board of this AIPAC front group, another 5 of them took money this election cycle.

    In the first major symbolic vote since the election, these Dems were prostituting themselves for a front group advancing the interests of an ethno supremacist foreign government engaging in a genocide that just helped manipulate our nation into a war and is seeking to re-escalate it.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 child)

    And not only that.

    These cunts have been blaming voters for not voting, foryears. Go vote, you have to vote, it is important to vote.

    And now when it is their turn to show everyone how it is done, they fuck off to suck dick. Imagine if few thousand people in Mississippi didn't go vote because they assumed there was no point in it.

    American politicians are truly biggest pieces of shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It's messaging, a show of where their fealty lies. Fealty to the zionist entity by choosing it over this. And a middle finger to anti-genocide pro-Palestine factions of their party who came out to vote for them that they don't give a fuck about them and will always prioritize serving the zionist entity over even domestic concerns.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    Actually one Democrats said that there was bad car accident in the area which made them late and Republicans closed vote knowing not everyone was present.

    Apparently she was a minute late: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/11/11/pete-hegseth-impeachment-congress-traffic-jam/92724473007/

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    The tweet in this article said another Democrat saw no such thing.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago

    Messie himself admitted that he didn't gave any heads-up to anyone, because last time he did Johnson scheduled vacation.

    There were also 7 Republicans that missed the vote. It looks Johnson called the vote to move it to judiciary committee (essentially looking the bill) as soon as he had the number to block the bill. If the Democrats would show up he would wait for the other Republicans.

    I think it is pointless to work out over this specific thing, when the impeachment in no way would pass without some Republicans voting for it as well and except Messie no one showed a spine.

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  • [–] 5 points 12 hours ago* (3 children)

    Oh Please. Stop buying their bullshit. They chose their priorities. They’re fucking lazy from doing nothing for so long they think their only job is to be the do-nothing opposition party and vote to kill civilians and send money to Israel. Republicans aren’t our biggest hurdle to progress. Centrist dems have been supporting conservative causes since the 80s. There is always some stupid excuse centrists give while republicans continue to get their legislation passed even when they don’t control the house. It’s been happening for 45 years.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 hours ago (1 child)

    A lot what you say is true, but this was doomed to fail. All Democrats present voted against and all Republicans voted pro (this was to move impeachment articles to judiciary committee effectively killing it), there were also 7 Republicans not present.

    If Democrats had the number in quite sure Johnson would wait for the other 7 to show up. How Republicans voted clearly shows us that Hegseth is safe at least until January.

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