Republicans are mad Democrats didn't tell them Rep. Green would get out of his hospital bed to vote against impeachment

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Sawyer Hackett @SawyerHackett
Speaker Mike Johnson blames the failed impeachment of Sec. Mayorkas on “people who show up when they’re not expected to be in the building.”

He’s referencing Rep. Al Green, who showed up in a wheelchair from surgery.

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...Dem magic!


Keith Boykin @keithboykin
Republicans are mad that Democrats didn’t tell them that Rep. Al Green would get out of his hospital bed to vote against their sham impeachment. They’re so used to winning elections by suppressing the Black vote that they think it’s a trick when a Black person actually does vote.

Acyn @Acyn
Jeffries: It’s not our responsibility to let House Republicans know which members will or will not be present on the House Floor

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[Nevilledog]

1. They had the vote because they thought Green wouldn't be there

I love Casten's take

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Sean Casten
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I’ve no doubt that this self-sanctified Speaker tried to take advantage of a medical situation rather than allow democracy to play out. But it’s also true that a guy who thinks the universe is 6000 years old might not be very good at basic math.

Adam Parkhomenko
@AdamParkhomenko
Speaker Mike Johnson says he was counting on a Democrat to be in surgery during his failed impeachment efforts
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11:57 AM · Feb 7, 2024

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Damn, it's just like the general election when voters they didn't expect show up and vote.

[Quanto Magnus]

8. Typical

Republicans blaming Democrats for their failures...

[no_hypocrisy]

2. You mean like how John McCain, fighting

brain cancer, came onto the Senate floor to save the ACA? That kind of treachery?

[jaxexpat]

14. Peehaps the last " non-coward" Republican, McCain.

[area51]

4. Stay mad, nazis.

@ssholes.

[egduj]

5. That was pro strat.

[Vinca]

6. Rep. Green pulled off one of the all-time great Congressional moves. Bravo to him!

[Srkdqltr]

7. Are we supposed to care?

[Biophilic]

9. They seem so third gradeish about this.

They just whine about everything. “We didn’t get our way. No fair “. How embarrassing. I’d feel sorry for them if they weren’t such little whiners and losers.

[Comfortably_Numb]

10. Jesus Christ...I mean Mike Johnson. You suck. Hugely. Giant straw style. You're a disgrace to zealots everywhere.

The Invisible Cloud Being is going to be disappointed in you.

[Hekate]

11. Mike Johnson and Empty Green owe me some screen cleaner & a new keyboard

[onethatcares]

12. next time the Democratic caucus

should paint a tunnel entrance on a wall with a sign that says, "This way to the House floor". I say, that would be hilarious. Hehehe!

[W_HAMILTON]

13. Nancy Pelosi said it best earlier.

Essentially, when you are in the majority, the minority is irrelevant when it comes to vote counting. You should be able to pass a bill on your own, you should have votes in your pocket if you need them, and you should never bring a bill to the floor if you are unsure it will pass.

Republicans are just a bunch of dumbasses.

[PortTack]

15. Why would he assume the Dems would not rightly and fairly expect every Dem to be present for the vote

Just goes to show this guy can’t think beyond the end of his nose!

[Xavier Breath]

16. If he showed up then doesn't that mean it was "God's will" that he showed up?

Just like God wanted Trump to lose last time? Beats me, I don't know how that silliness works, and apparently Mike doesn't either.

[ZonkerHarris]

21. bazinga

[MustLoveBeagles]

17. What a bunch of crybabies

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It's their own fault their sham impeachment failed.

[TheKentuckian]

18. Bozo, Ronald, and Presto are livid!

They demand that that clowns no longer be associated with the Republican white nationalist crime syndicate, theocratic domestic terrorist organization, and insane death cult.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. Is this the "hidden vote" that eMpTy was complaining about?

[Bev54]

20. Can any of these people do basic math? He was not the deciding vote it was 216-214

so it still would have been 215-214 and they still lose.

[leftieNanner]

22. It was tied at 215

And one Republican changed his vote to no. This way they can bring it back for another vote. So without Green, it would have been 215 - 214 and it would have passed.

[Bev54]

25. So they waited until after Greene voted to change their vote so they can bring it up again?

Am I getting that right? I didn't watch it, been too busy but I think that is what you are saying??

[leftieNanner]

27. Yes. It's a procedural thing.

If it had been tied and then gavelled closed, then they couldn't bring it back. I don't fully understand it.

[Bev54]

30. Thanks for the explanation.

[usaf-vet]

23. Seriously they wouldn't give it a second thought to use subtrifuge to get their way. In fact, they got a border bill...

... to sign but won't follow through because the TFG thinks he is going to run on problems at the border and blame Biden.

[republianmushroom]

24. Republicans are snowflakes.

[The Unmitigated Gall]

26. The whining of the sheep. nt

[Freethinker65]

28. GOP incompetence. Called for the vote assuming Democrats would be short a legislator of two and had no backup plan.

Also a political abuse of power to try to impeach someone because you do not agree with the opposing side's policy.

[ProfessorGAC]

29. In Your Cult's Own Words...

..."Fuck your feelings" Mikey.

[Irish_Dem]

31. They are angry because Jeffries outsmarted them.

He had an ace up his sleeve and the GOP idiots were too stupid to realize it.

[Blue Owl]

32. Fuck the GOP losers

[Habitation]

33. Reading this is the highlight of my day!

And it's 2130 hrs!