WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 2026
Did every Democrat want that? Pete Hegseth could have been impeached. That would have led to a Senate trial.
Is that the way Democrats wanted to start the new political era? To us, that wouldn't necessarily seem like the best possible way to proceed.
Other people feel very differently, as you can see below.
At any rate, eleven Democrats missed the vote, including Nancy Pelosi. Where was the former Speaker? We link you to Newsweek's report:
Nancy Pelosi Explains Why She Missed Pete Hegseth Impeachment Vote
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi missed a key vote on articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after leaving Washington, D.C., to attend a veterans event in San Francisco, where she was receiving an award.
The House voted 211-204 on Tuesday to refer eight articles of impeachment introduced by Republican Representative Thomas Massie to the House Judiciary Committee, effectively halting the effort.
Eleven Democrats, including Pelosi, were recorded as not voting. Eight additional votes against the motion would have been enough to defeat it.
Pelosi's absence was notable because the former speaker has previously called for Hegseth to leave office, saying in an October 9 social media post that he was "beyond unfit" to lead the military and declaring: "He must go."
And so on from there.
Has last week's triumphal Blue American unity come to an instant end? More pungently, is it possible that elements of the Democratic Party didn't want to start the new regime with an impeachment of Hegseth?
We have no way of knowing the answer to that. But as Mediaite reports, Blue American unity did take a bit of a tumble:
‘Embarrassing!’ Progressives Erupt at Jeffries and 11 Dems Who Blew Off Hegseth Impeachment Vote
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.
The House voted 211-204 to send eight articles of impeachment introduced by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) to committee, effectively ending the push to remove Hegseth. Massie was the only Republican to oppose the procedural maneuver.
According to The New York Times, Republican leaders had initially worried they lacked the votes to defeat the measure. Instead, 11 absent Democrats handed them a victory.
Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) blasted her absent colleagues in remarks to MeidasTouch’s Pablo Manríquez following the vote.
And so on from there, with other examples of blasting noted.
"Shameful," Rep. Kamlager-Dove said. Quite a few other people seemed to feel completely sure about their own assessments.
The eleven Dems are being attacked, at least by a certain number of people. So is the future Speaker Jeffries.
"Embarrassing," at least one person has said. At fault, some Democrats say, is some sort of a traffic delay caused by some sort of alleged police escort.
To us, it didn't necessarily seem like the best way to go. To others, the matter seemed different. For better or worse, this is how things tend to work.
Did every Democrat want him impeached? We have no idea!
ReplyDelete"‘Embarrassing!’ Progressives Erupt at Jeffries and 11 Dems Who Blew Off Hegseth Impeachment Vote "
Oh, so it's the Dumbocrat pwogwessives who want to do theater instead of doing their job? Sure, it figures.
And what about the DSA faction, are they into it too? Just curious.
"Some of those truant Democratic lawmakers said they were stuck in “bumper-to-bumper” traffic on their way back from a new member reception held by the Elect Democratic Women PAC, according to Axios’s Andrew Solender. That group’s offshoot, the EDW Action Fund, has served as a major pass-through for funds from United Democracy Project, a super PAC formed by the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. It’s not clear which members were in attendance at the event.
ReplyDeleteRepresentative Katherine Clark, who as Democratic whip is responsible for organizing her party’s House members ahead of a vote, is also one of the founding members of EDW. Clark was not absent for the vote, and called the results a “disgrace.”
Of the 11 Democrats who missed the Hegseth vote, eight have received support from EDW or its action group, including Brownley, who sits on the organization’s executive board, and Stansbury, who serves on the board of directors." [The New Republic]