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- usa@midwest.social
Trump ally, accused of an array of illegal acts, had earlier condemned impeachment push as ‘a farce and a stunt’
House Republicans on Tuesday blocked an effort to impeach Pete Hegseth, rejecting allegations that the defense secretary had repeatedly violated the constitution through his handling of the Iran war and other conflicts globally.
The vote came a week after Republicans lost control of the Senate and House of Representatives in their worst midterm election in more than a half century, and underscored how lawmakers remain wary of crossing Donald Trump, who has signaled his continued support for Hegseth.
Thomas Massie, a Republican congressman who lost his primary after breaking with the president, had proposed impeaching Hegseth in September, alleging an array of illegal acts, including killing civilians in Iran, launching unauthorized operations in Venezuela and Yemen, and retaliating against a Democratic senator.
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Not many Republicans were likely to vote to impeach, but at least they are now on the record blocking it. Once all the Hegseth atrocities and dumbassery come out, Republican votes can be effectively used in future campaign rhetoric.
Just wait for January.
blocked
I don’t understand how sending to committee is blocking it. It is delaying impeachment vote, possibly until next supermajority dem house. Impeaching him, would still not create a forced end to Iran war. Even convicting him in senate wouldn’t.
Even if GOP chaired current committee recommends against impeachment, it would still go back to house for vote. Likely play is to just let next committee chair do the investigations while the motion to impeach remains open.
11 democrats did not vote to let it fail
Johnson called a snap vote.
He made sure all the GOP stuck around, then when the time was right he called the vote and these Dems could not get back in time.
Furthermore, there are many reports of a traffic jam caused by a police escorted bus that literally trapped Dems in traffic.
Shady shit went down.
I’m not a pelosi fan, but you all should know what really kept these 11 from voting.
That’s impossible. The blue wave was proof that things were going to change!
The people elected in the blue wave won’t be sworn in until January. This is the same old people doing the same old thing for now
Yup. Nancy Pelosi didn’t even bother to show up.
Now we just have to sit at home and keep winning! Right guys… right?
They aren’t even sworn in for another month and a half
I mean. The Dems don’t take control until January.
This was theatre
Good proof that the the Republicans haven’t learned anything from the election too.
Hm. Pelosi showed ‘no vote’. Maybe the 2024 sitout voters need to take note how not voting gets the results the other side wants. And how not voting implies you support the other side, even if you do, or don’t.
Dumbasses
Strategically if heggy is pushed out in 2027 then the Dems get to control the replacement process. If he goes now then the Rs get to put in whoever they want.
This was my thought too, they don’t control the committees that filter the next nominee until January
Massie was the sole Republican to oppose the motion, along with all Democrats.
Surely other primaried Republicans see the writing on the wall in terms a post-Trump future for the Republican Party and could have distanced themselves from Trumpism with this vote for a potential return to politics in 2028?
It’s telling that Republicans aren’t budging an inch even after getting destroyed in the midterms. I would like it if the voting population would see this and remain against them, but realistically, all that matters is gas and grocery prices. If they’re high, the voters vote for the opposite party, if they’re decent, they complacently leave whoever is there in power.
Must be loyal. Spine retreat. ( as robot voice… )
The end is near, Kegsbreath.
Shouldn’t Massey have known this was doomed from the beginning? What did he have to gain from this? Does his effort to impeach hinder a future attempt at impeachment? I don’t know enough about the strategies and such.
You know, maybe, I don’t know, I’m not going to sit here and try to get inside the mind of a dog! I mean that’s God’s work. Well, not that I believe in God…
- Rickety Cricket
[I prefer not to finish the quote]
If there 11 absent dems showed up it would have passed.
Wasn’t a forgone conclusion: the votes would have sufficed if they attended on time.
…deflect, delay, deny
Probably the right move. I want Hegseth out as much as anyone but it’s not likely to get past the senate and even if it did, Trump still has two months of a somewhat rubber stamp congress for the next bozo he nominates. Once Democrats take control, there is a better chance of getting him out and much more control of who gets in…
Doesn’t matter. You do what you have to do regardless if it fail or not
Yup there it is … America’s false hope to do something meaningful and doesn’t follow through with it
You don’t disappoint me by disappointing me
