Majority of dems who didn’t vote, also had funding to their campaigns through aipac. Looking at you Marylin Strickland.

The 11 Democratic members of the House who were not present for the procedural vote on the Pete Hegseth impeachment resolution are:

• Julia Brownley (Calif.)
• Lou Correa (Calif.) — note: the report notes he was recovering from a medical procedure and unable to travel
• Laura Gillen (NY)
• Steven Horsford (Nev.)
• Jonathan Jackson (Ill.)
• Nancy Pelosi (Calif.)
• Brittany Pettersen (Colo.)
• Melanie Stansbury (NM)
• Haley Stevens (Mich.)
• Marilyn Strickland (Wash.)
• Frederica Wilson (Fla.)

I understand that 10 of the 11 Dem no-shows take money from Israel's super pac, AIPAC.

I'm happy to be corrected, but that is my understanding.

Follow the money.

Holy Shit. If he's being this much a dick now, there's no way in fucking hell is going to cooperate with the progressive caucus. Sure, you might get your committee assignments, but Dems are pros are strategically sinking progressive policies and there is little doubt in my mind that Jeffries will effectively stifle any movement towards fulfilling the mandates of this election.

Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote. He told people to ‘vote their conscience,’ and 11 members of his caucus didn’t show up,” writer Laura Bassett wrote on social media. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”

Jeffries is a piece of shit and shouldn't be anywhere near any leadership position...

But whipping votes is the job of the second in line...

A job with the literal title "minority whip"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Clark

We can't just focus on two popular names, we need to flush all the neoliberals out of leadership.

All that being said, votes just happen whenever with no warning. It's way past time that these votes need to be scheduled in advance. Instead of "vote starts now" at least "vote starts in 24 hour, exactly at ____ o'clock"

Once the main vote happens, there can be exceptions for follow ups, like "next vote in one hour"

The current way shit is done is fucking stupid

Get ready for another year of protesting even with dems in Congress.

Dems in Congress only means there’s a chance people will listen as opposed to before when there was no chance.

We are NOT out of the woods yet.

Jeffires is comprised by both Israel and Trump. Secret meetings with Kushner and sucking Bibi's dick, swearing off getting justice and calling it revenge. You could fill a book with good reasons why he should not only never have additional power, he should be primaried and replaced asap.

Jefferies is a piece of shit and you can gaurntee that the midterms will have been for nothing and America won’t exist at the end of trymps term if these feckless republicans stay in power. Jeffries and Schumer are more GOP than they are Dem and will get us all killed through their incompetence.

We need new leadership!

Chris Van Hollen is calling his colleagues: https://www.ms.now/news/van-hollen-schumer-senate-majority-leader-democrats

Let's get the new leadership we so desperately need!

7 calls to help replace Schumer and Jeffries:

1. Call Ayanna Pressley and encourage her to run for speaker of the house. She would be a great leader in addition to being the first black speaker of the house - which eliminates Hakeem Jeffries false claim only racists oppose him.

https://pressley.house.gov/contact-us/

2. Call Senator Chris Van Hollen and encourage him to run for Senate leader to oust Chuck Schumer.

https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/ Numbers at the bottom of the page

3. Call your representative and urge them to support Ayanna Pressley for speaker of the house.

4 & 5) Call your senators and demand they support Chris Van Hollen and oppose Chuck Schumer for Senate leader.

http://5calls.org/issue/house-senate-leadership/

6. Call Chuck Schumer and demand he step down as Senate leader: (202) 224-6542

7. Call Hakeem Jeffries and demand he step down as house leader: (202) 225-5936

Repeat every day until we have new leaders.

You had one job mf

Reposting this comment here, as I've said it in a similar post... Also, this is NOT THE NEW CONGRESS UNTIL JAN 3

Maybe some of you don't realize this, but while I don't like the Dem party, this is clearly news bait to drive a wedge in the left.

The vote wasn't whether or not to impeach, it was whether or not to move the impeachment to committee.

It was also called short, before Dems that COULD'VE been present could arrive.

The GOP loves playing games, this is them playing games and you're falling for it.

I guarantee if the 11 Dems had shown up to vote, the 5 NV Repubs would have shown up too, so its a moot point. The outcome was known before the vote even went to the floor.

The congresscritters know this as well so they do things like:

• cancel each others vote out. So and so on one side has a wedding to attend, so and so on the other side has their kids first recital. They both agree to not show up
• their constituency aka campaign funds are in danger if they vote a certain way. They are certain to lose, so they abstain so when the next election cycle comes up they can say they didnt vote for that.

I don't think they could remove him until after the new congress enters, regardless.

I know this is about the Democrats and the screw up that prevents enough votes. But there were enough voters there to make it happen. Let's not just excuse Republicans who are fine with what Hegseth has done. Sure, it's expected, Republicans are best at stepping in line with the party, but it shouldn't be ignored that they aren't even apathetic, they voted against it. We need to learn how to use that denial and blocking against them, because it's only going to get worse as Democrats try to do things constructively (once they get better leadership).

It's fine, y'all relax. Remember we don't take back Congress until January. Let them start planning now to nail the bastard when there's zero need for any republikkkan or aipac votes.

I’m worried with the incoming members of congress we’re going to see the corporate democrats form their own caucus and start siding with republicans on issues effectively blunting any of the gains that democrats made. And if Jeffries stays in power he’s going to let that happen.

Haven’t even made it to January yet and we have “concern” and “furrowed brows” as the dems usual course of failure.

So where are all the "Fuck people who didn't vote cause of Gaza!" pieces of shit at?

unpopular opinion, but i'm glad about this. the dems hate hegseth with passion, if he was almost impeached even in a republican congress, it's practically guaranteed he will be impeached next time anyone tries. and why would the blue tsunami not try?

the real risk would be replacing him too quickly. senate can block his replacement, that's gonna be a major point of leverage for the upcoming democrat congress. letting the gop rush his replacement would be a blunder, it would burn up all that leverage for nothing.

those no-shows are a genuinely good strategic move. they block the impeachment for now in a deniable way, because it's gonna go through anyway, and because you can't replace him if you don't impeach him first. (unless trump fires him first, but like, fat chance.) however, an impeachment in february leaves trump begging the dems for his next secdef, while an impeachment now would have him scrambling to get a new guy in before the deadline.

Yay voting means nothing and the dems are going to fuck up the momentum they had because jefferies and Schumer are basically republicans. Fuck this country.

Edit: still vote, I’m tired of being disappointed.

For fuck sake.

Where the fuck are all those "oh but genocide" election trolls now?! There streets should be awash with protests. Much weeping and gnashing of teeth.

You fukn yanks had some momentum for a moment and this cum stain couldn't be bothered to whip the vote. What the actual fuck.

The US is like the violent abusive spouse, who just last week promised to talk to a counsellor, but this week is back on the sauce.

Get a dog up ya.

What did the election mean? Why did we send most republicans and some corpo-dems packing? Was is for this? Jeezzus fucking christ!

“vote harder” is our next step, right?