- Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Colorado said on social media that she was unable to cast her vote before Republicans gaveled the vote closed
- Like other Members of Congress, Rep. Stansbury was blocked from entering the Capitol to vote due a traffic incident
- A police escort of a bus during the vote
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/6212500-stansbury-misses-hegseth-vote/
It’s already silly to get up in arms about Dems being delayed from taking a vote they would have lost anyway. But consider the fact that this was happening now because Massie wanted to send a final “fuck you” before leaving office. If it had somehow passed, you’d have Republican impeachment managers presenting a sham case to a Republican-controlled Senate. Wait until January, and you get an actual proper trial with 56 Democratic senators. Still won’t be enough to convict (probably), but it’s actually better this vote didn’t succeed right now.
This is all a distraction from the blue wave.
Indeed. Folx on Fedi this morning claiming this as a “total failure of Dem leadership.”. This IS a blue wave of epic proportions, with AK and MS still counting.
It’s already silly to get up in arms about Dems being delayed from taking a vote they would have lost anyway.
Yeah, there were 7 Republicans who hadn’t shown up yet, either. If the Democrats would’ve actually been ahead, Mike Johnson would’ve held the vote open until those 7 showed up, or tabled the whole thing to bring back later to finish voting with everyone there.
Or the motion would have failed and they would’ve taken a vote on actual impeachment, which would have failed. They had 218 votes to defeat impeachment, and this just happened to be the maneuver they used.
Most are AIPAC money recipients.
There is a post around here about it somewhere.
try this link
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/haley-stevens-democrats-hegseth-impeachment-aipac-1831591
Sounds like some fuckery here too.
AIPAC had a meeting scheduled at the same time. (https://www.commondreams.org/news/aipac-front-group-hegseth)
Also a motorcade that blocked Reps access to the building, one has to wonder who planned that
Nancy Pelosi had to go get a trophy apparently.
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi missed a key vote on articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after leaving Washington, D.C., to attend a veterans event in San Francisco, where she was receiving an award.
https://www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi-missed-pete-hegseth-impeachment-vote-12698880
That group started taking aipac money in 2019.also:
I thought she retired
Demoncrats: We don’t do anything to make your life better. Just use lawfare and say “orange man bad”.
Why is orange man good? :/
Hot take: orange man was needed so we could easily identify the large and vast amounts of fascists in this country by their red hats, rascism, etc.
Also he’s good because he’s managed to make most logical people into realizing that Republicans are directly opposed to Democracy. You still have genuine idiots who believe we have an actual left and right in this country LOL.
Let’s not forget the environmental benefits to shutting down the Strait of Hormuz.
True! And if he handled COVID semi-competently, the very few positive impacts of that pandemic would’ve been cut short too!
Of course it’s important to note that if we had nothing but Dems for the last decade, we would’ve probably been hitting environmental strides that would make Al Gore bust a nut from just seeing a few percentages go green for once
As it was we’ve really learned a lot about respiratory infectious disease that had been glossed over, for decades. A little appropriately placed incompetence can really show some significant benefit for all humanity, of course after a lot of death and suffering, but let’s not dwell over long on the downsides.
Orange man is so good, he does all the sex crimes and invents new ones, all without having a controllable butthole!
Not every absent Democrat immediately provided an explanation.
Well some of them had to spend cherished time with their lobbyists, of course
