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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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[–] 26 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is going to end up as excellent fodder to use in the 2028 primaries against the non-retiring reps who pulled this shit

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    No, it won't. People will have forgotten all about it by then.

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    • [–] 19 points 1 day ago

    By design

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    [–] 6 points 1 day ago

    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)

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    [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    If you got excited last week, just understand that nothing's probably coming of the change in power except for two years of sham hearings that accomplish nothing.

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    [–] 20 points 1 day ago

    Colour me suprised.

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    [–] 5 points 16 hours ago (6 children)

    Dems finally got a big shot at change. Will they go for it or revert to the same-old, same-old? Just like the mid-term shake-up there needs to be a dem party shake-up or I fear everything will revert back to the entrenched establishment.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 hours ago* (3 children)

    they also had their big shot in 2020, 2018, 2008, 2007, and 1955 to 1995 -- they have a recorded and verified history of not taking their shot at change so it's silly to expect or hope that this leopard will change its spots.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

    Still? Did autocorrect get that from "silly?"

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    • [–] 4 points 9 hours ago

    Hi AIPAC, Can we see a list of attendees?

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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 5 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 1 hour 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 9 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 1 hour 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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    [–] 5 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    I take it Democrats just aren't going to fucking learn? Pick any poll ya like, Americans are steadily dropping support for Israel.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago

    They made it very clear this election that many in the Establishment would rather lose elections than upset Israel or their donor class.

    That is why I am perplexed by some of the responses to things like Alex Karp saying he is a Democrat.

    It's not the oligarchs scared of accountability, it's them dabbing on us and using the public sphere to openly signal they are willing to shift their money in either direction as long as their interests are met.

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    • [–] 7 points 1 day ago

    Marilyn Strickland (D-Wash.)

    Just got reelected and already missed the first critical vote. Awesome job…

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    [–] 1 point 11 hours ago

    of course they are.

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    [–] 9 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    It should be illegal to miss a vote without a note from your doctor.

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    [–] 3 points 1 day ago

    That’s probably where the missing Republicans were, too.

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