“Jeffries didn’t even whip the vote,” one critic said about the House minority leader, who wants to be speaker. “This is why people want a stronger leader.”
As House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries seeks to become speaker when Democrats retake Congress in January, critics questioned his leadership Tuesday after the Republican-led lower chamber effectively blocked a bid to impeach Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth by just seven votes—an outcome that may have been averted if more Democrats showed up to vote.
The 211-204 procedural vote effectively torpedoed Congressman Thomas Massie’s attempt to impeach Hegseth by sending the outgoing Kentucky Republican’s resolution to the House Judiciary Committee, where it will likely gather dust during the remainder of the GOP-controlled congressional term.
No, childish bullshit is Republican politics. I wish people who thought this was what politics was for would either grow the fuck up or get the hell out of the room while the grownups talk, but here we are, with half of America thinking juvenile pranks and “For the LULZ” is just how the country works. Every Republican from Johnson down should be ashamed, but we already know they don’t have the capacity for that. Jefferies failure to keep his team on side in the lame duck sessions is a failure of leadership. Republicans having no dignity or morals isn’t news anymore.