What about this vote was “key”? It’s like one of many votes none of which will result in anything before the new congress takes office on January 3rd.
ahhh, the dog ate my homework excuse.
Where was the minority whip ? fucking around as well?
Relevant supplement to this
Lawmakers Report That Some Democrats Missed Hegseth Impeachment Vote to Attend Event for ‘AIPAC Front Group’
How nice of them to put themselves on the list of people for serious Americans to vote against next election so early in the cycle. I thought it would take a few months for them to make themselves this known.
Oh what a joyful coincidence.
The traffic:
On its face, this seems like a dirty trick by Republicans. Mike Johnson called a recess, then after members left, called a snap vote on whether to proceed with impeachment with no warning. This entire spectacle reeks of a planned Republican scheme to try to influence the outcome through procedure and sow division within the Democratic party. The Republican House caucus was obviously made aware this was happening so they would stick around.
That any House Speaker can call a snap vote like this is a serious problem for our democracy.
So, the israelis threw a party way the fuck in nowhere right before a critical vote, and there just happened to be a huge traffic jam blocking their only path back to vote?
So, throw a party then crash a truck to continue their war of genocide uninterrupted. It’s what their fictional gawd told them to do. Everything is justified by a fictional being that lives in their religious psychopathy.
Can we just start eating people
These people are rotten through and through. We’d be better off composting them
We are all compost in training, but them first.
Easy to spatchcock when they’ve got no spine
👨🍳🤌🫴
It wasn’t an impeachment vote. It was a vote to send it to committee which is what the Republicans wanted to delay. The vote was moved up and closed early by Johnson. In all honesty, any impeachment needs to be done in January because it will actually pass the Senate and Dems would control the approval of the nomination.
I’m actually not sure it will pass the senate even after we get 54 DNC Senators in because I’m pretty sure it’s still 60 to remove even though it was 50 + VP to confirm? It’s a little confusing.
Why is a vote allowed to go through it representatives are stuck in traffic
Because Johnson. He was aware people were en route and closed the vote.
Its also misleading, its “some of the 11”. Pelosi was in CA for a veterans day event, another was going in for a medical procedure, another had an unrelated (and unspecified) personal emergency, like 4 said they were stuck in traffic (motorcade blocking traffic), and I think it was 2 at the AIPAC event.
Not excusing anything here BTW, just pointing out the title is kinda shitty.
I mean, everyone not being in attendance can’t automatically delay votes, or anyone could unilaterally block a vote by just not showing up. However, I think we all know why the vote was moved up and closed early - it’s specifically because they were stuck in traffic.
They shouldn’t have needed to be at a specific location to vote for more than 100 years… How is it still allowed to be an excuse.
Alternatively
Having been required to be at a specific location to vote for more than 100 years is probably a good reason to be at the location
Were any of the House republicans also caught in that traffic jam?
7 Republicans missed the vote but don’t know why.
Why? Probably dead and playing weekend at bernies with the bodies.
insert Mitch McConnell pic here
They were present just not needed. They voted in the next thing 20 mins later.
If Dems somehow was there those 7 would have voted.
These people are miscreants of the worst kind for this. In addition, though, maybe we should update the rules so people don’t have to be in one fucking building all at the same time in order for our government to function. We have the technology, people. We can make it better, faster, and stronger than what it is now.
Actually, I’d like to keep it that way for now. These fuckers use Microsoft for their confidential emails. I don’t want to imagine the huge security issues they’d create in voting for budgets and legislation.
Budgets and Legislation are all televised on CSPAN already. It’s public information. For the super secret war plans, they use the ultra-secure Signal app.
How many of their constituents will remember this 23 months from now?
I probably won’t because this particular vote was in fact pointless and inconsequential. New congress doesn’t enter office until Jan 3rd.
This is the same quality of excuse as saying “the dog ate my homework”.
Oh look, the controlled opposition reared its ugly head even faster than I thought.
Voting matters, but not just at the main elections. Building a party that is a coherent vision is needed too. The D have their own corruption to weed out.
…this, this is my ass…
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) was in San Francisco attending a Veterans Day celebration, where she was being honored for her advocacy on behalf of veterans.
“Speaker Emerita Pelosi returned to San Francisco to join and honor local veterans at Swords to Plowshares’ 30th Annual Veterans Day Celebration tonight, an important and longstanding district tradition she regularly attends and will mark for the last time as a Member of Congress by receiving the Lifetime Advocate for Veterans Award,” Pelosi spokesperson Ian Krager told The Sun.
Uh huh. Okay then.
I blame Hakeem Jeffries, minority leader, and Katherine Clark, Democratic Whip.
Clark is even in the same group that some of the missing members attended a meeting of before getting stuck in traffic during the vote.
Also, it didn’t matter, this vote was meaningless.
Well sure they wernt going to admit it was actually because they were busy at thier hate group meeting.
