Chris Van Hollen is calling his colleagues: https://www.ms.now/news/van-hollen-schumer-senate-majority-leader-democrats
Let’s get the new leadership we so desperately need!
7 calls to help replace Schumer and Jeffries:
- Call Ayanna Pressley and encourage her to run for speaker of the house. She would be a great leader in addition to being the first black speaker of the house - which eliminates Hakeem Jeffries false claim only racists oppose him.
https://pressley.house.gov/contact-us/
- Call Senator Chris Van Hollen and encourage him to run for Senate leader to oust Chuck Schumer.
https://www.vanhollen.senate.gov/ Numbers at the bottom of the page
- Call your representative and urge them to support Ayanna Pressley for speaker of the house.
4 & 5) Call your senators and demand they support Chris Van Hollen and oppose Chuck Schumer for Senate leader.
http://5calls.org/issue/house-senate-leadership/
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Call Chuck Schumer and demand he step down as Senate leader: (202) 224-6542
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Call Hakeem Jeffries and demand he step down as house leader: (202) 225-5936
Repeat every day until we have new leaders.
Blue no matter who! It will definitely work!
Wasn’t this some sort of play by Republicans to try and sneak a vote in, which is why a bunch of people couldn’t make it? Correct me if im wrong.
Seems like something designed to make progressives look bad for asking for representation in government. Isreal must be shitting their pants about losing control of the wheel.
If i miss a shift, i get fired. Anyone who doesn’t show up to work on time doesn’t represent voters.
It was worse the 11 were not there due to attending an event hosted by AIPAC! Fuckers are traitor to our country.
“Missed”
They are on a rotation. They have already figured out who to sacrifice based on if they’re up for reelection or not, and whomever they chose because they can afford to take the heat.
It’s all a game. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. They pay by rules you don’t even know exist. Decisions are made behind closed doors, and we are told there was a vote or whatever. The truth is not out there, it’s locked behind a FOIA request that gets denied or redacted beyond recognition.
Jeffries is in charge right now until January, you think he doesn’t have the votes already in place? He will try to stay in power at any cost.
They’ll get it all from you sooner or later ‘cause they own this fuckin’ place. It’s a big club and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. — George Carlin
This is absolutely bullshit. With something like this coming up you either spend the night in your office or leave 2 hours early. This is our fucking country and our lives. We voted for you to do this. The movie No Way Out has Gene Hackman as a senator, I believe, who is waiting for someone for a meeting. The person is late and blames traffic. Hack looks at him and says “why didn’t you account for it?”. These motherfuckers have no excuse for this.
Neoliberals are conservatives. Always have been.
Conservative and Facist, the two political parties in America.
I once again wrote to my representative to encourage her to not support Jeffries, and I do so every time an action like this comes up. I implore you to do the same. The Dems will not change unless there is extreme pressure to do so.
Well, I’m no horse combing rocketeer, but can’t we just do it again until everyone is present…like maybe announce it and have people be present?
Personally, I’m skeptical that this was by accident.
The reps who missed this seem to have common political alignments.
My guess is that they would rather wait until after the new congress gets sworn in to Impeach Hegseth because the extra time is good for their allies in the war industry, and because they have some dumb political game theory about how it helps them if it happens on their preferred schedule.
I don’t think that 11 similarly-minded reps somehow had an oopsie-daisy on the day of the big vote.
There are only two explanations for what happened:
- Jeffries is too incompetent of a leader to get asses in seats to vote for important shit when the time comes.
- Jeffries is a competent, traitorous leader to have arranged for there to be excuses to have not had the votes.
In both cases, he should be disqualified for even attempting to lead the party. He’s either too much of a little pissboy bitch or he’s a purchased stooge begging to be the appetizer of our meal of eating the rich.
Why would they initiate a vote now, before all the new people get sworn in?
Soundbites, attention, etc. These people aren’t politicians, they’re just actors kayfabing as leaders
A republican initiated the impeachment, and he won’t be there next year.
Because it was designed to fail.
Neolibs now in power and hitting the ground sitting down as expected.
HOLD THESE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE WITH THE PEOPLES EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
This is so dumb.
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There was a massive traffic clusterfuck that delayed a busload of Democrats from returning from an event across town (multiple Republicans also got delayed). This included some of the loudest Democratic supporters of the effort.
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The House GOP exploited this by closing the vote as soon as they had the majority; if it had been the other way around, they would have just held it open for hours until they had enough votes to defeat it.
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This specific vote was driven by outgoing Republican Thomas Massie, there’s nothing preventing Democrats from introducing their own in January. In fact it’s arguably better – an impeachment now would have managers appointed by Republicans and go before a Republican-controlled Senate. I’d much rather have Democratic managers and 56 Democrats in the Senate.
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Even in the latter case though, you’d still need 11 Senate Republicans to vote to convict (12 if Fetterman defects), which is extremely unlikely given who’s left in the caucus. This whole effort is ultimately symbolic, not something with a real shot at removing Hegseth.
Acting like this was some nefarious plot by AIPAC to maintain the war is absurd.
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Maybe some of you don’t realize this, but while I don’t like the Dem party, this is clearly news bait to drive a wedge in the left.
The vote wasn’t whether or not to impeach, it was whether or not to move the impeachment to committee.
It was also called short, before Dems that COULD’VE been present could arrive.
The GOP loves playing games, this is them playing games and you’re falling for it.
Definitely wasn’t called short, I watched it happen. It was a 5 minute vote, the vote was known about the day before, and even after the 5 minutes was up they still let people vote.
If all the GOP and all the Dems voted, then the Dems would have failed by 2 votes. But 7 GOP didn’t vote while 11 Dems didn’t vote. Dems could have struck down the effort to send the impeachment to committee, but they couldn’t even bother to show up for work.
I don’t give a shit what excuses they had, I don’t get to make excuses to miss work during critical moments, why the fuck should our overpaid reps get different treatment? Especially when all I’m doing most of the time is enshittifying a website for some corpo shmuck, meanwhile these fucking people are supposed to be running our country!!!
This is just another example of why DSA and progressives built up so much momentum in the midterms. The neolib establishment dems are utterly useless in the face of real progress.
Pasting my comment from a similar reply…
Your diatribe is exactly my point. I’m not onboard for Jeffries. I emailed my future Blue rep asking her to oust him from leadership. But sadly, we have to work with corpo dems to get anything done until they are all gone.
My point is these types of articles fit in with the GOP strategy, to cause rifts in the “left”
Quotes on “left” because of pedants, who keep yelling at me that there is no “left” in the USA.
The only wedge this drives though is with the vast masses against the corporatist zionist wing of the party…which IMO is the energy people need to keep up.
I don’t know of any meaningful constituency of voters that is out there angry that people are getting mad at Hailey Stevens for making her dreams of Israel come true and up and leaving, or Nancy Pelosi ironically skipping the vote to end an illegal and unjust war to get a lifetime achievement award from a veterans organization.
If I missed a crucial meeting at my work that was pivotal for positioning the future of the company, I would expect to reprimanded far more consequentially than some mean words.
Sadly, progressives will have to work with corpo dems to make anything happen. At least it’s possible to sway them…
It’s not possible to sway the Repubs in Congress for the most part.
I’m sorry we don’t live in an ideal world but these type of news articles produce apathy, which is the enemy of progress.
Ah yes, the good ol’ Centrist war cry of “But Repbulicans are mean so let’s not try at all!”.
Maybe stop being a coward always worrying about what Republicans will do and worry about what Democrats should do.
I’ve said nothing to do with whatever your are arguing about.
Your anger at me is my point exactly
I read your second line as the indicating why centrists would be not passing things progressives would be proposing.
If that’s not what your intent was then I do apologize.
Oh no, I wasn’t trying to be an apologist for Democrats, sorry for making that unclear. My point was we have to work with this trash (Corpo Dems ™️ ) because the other trash (GOP) is probably going to be a stonewall. In response to where the “wedge” is in Nola’s reply.
They all need to be held accountable.
Got it. Now that I re-re-read it, I see what you’re saying. Hey sorry about the misunderstanding!
And the way you change that overton window and shift those pressures leftward is thru sustained outside pressure
Corporate Dems have no real incentive to betray their actual constituents, donors, especially when their former main lovers(tech oligarchs and Israel) are sending all the signals their pocketbooks will open back up for them if they play nice, and if voters as a whole just go back to brunch, guess who easily wins that influence battle?
So while there is a type of corporate media propaganda that I think undermines the left, this is one of those rare instances I think this sort of coverage is actually helping. As it is keeping focus on who the villains inside the tent are and that they can’t be trusted(which they can’t). And right now they are banking on people going quiet and falling in line so they can maneuver behind the scenes and preserve their power and the status quo dynamic.
Ok
Maybe some of you don’t realize this, but while I don’t like the Dem party, this is clearly news bait to drive a wedge in the left.
I want to hope that all the accounts “falling for it” aren’t actually that dense, but the only argument for that is they’re constantly shitting on the only other option to facial and never trying to approve it.
And well, thats just as easily an argument for them legitimately not understanding any of this too
Further proof Jeffries is incapable of true leadership.
No one has ever accused him of leadership, but at least he can’t whip votes to backstab everyone
I don’t like or respect Jefferies, but he’s a compromise I could live with
Schumer on the other hand…
Compromise means we get something and weegxve something. What are we saying we get? Plum committee assignments in return for no progressive bill ever passing the House?
