Progressives erupted at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and the 11 Democrats who failed to show up for Tuesday's vote on impeaching Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, allowing Republicans to kill the effort despite their narrow House majority.
For (B) I still don’t quite get it because, for example, Pelosi is a lame duck retiring anyway come January. What did she have to lose by voting Yes for posterity, especially when substantively it would’ve led to nothing happened given the Senate vote threshold?
Pretty obvious how badly this looks – I mean Hegseth is pretty universally unliked.
What did she have to lose? Her fortune, her family’s assets, any and all legitimacy she has. While you say she’s a lame duck, she’s still ‘respected’ by representatives in power. By making this stance clear, it’s another thing that can be used against representatives that think Pelosi and her choices have any positive impact on democrats or society - aka, it’s a cudgel people can hit AOC on the head with the next time she tries to defer to centrist dems on something.
Pelosi might be gone, but her legacy of ‘raising’ junior reps is not, and those junior reps, for ‘some’ reason keep doing her bidding even when it goes against the mandate they were elected for.
For (B) I still don’t quite get it because, for example, Pelosi is a lame duck retiring anyway come January. What did she have to lose by voting Yes for posterity, especially when substantively it would’ve led to nothing happened given the Senate vote threshold?
Pretty obvious how badly this looks – I mean Hegseth is pretty universally unliked.
What did she have to lose? Her fortune, her family’s assets, any and all legitimacy she has. While you say she’s a lame duck, she’s still ‘respected’ by representatives in power. By making this stance clear, it’s another thing that can be used against representatives that think Pelosi and her choices have any positive impact on democrats or society - aka, it’s a cudgel people can hit AOC on the head with the next time she tries to defer to centrist dems on something.
Pelosi might be gone, but her legacy of ‘raising’ junior reps is not, and those junior reps, for ‘some’ reason keep doing her bidding even when it goes against the mandate they were elected for.