Although it’s a bit contrary to the spirit of this community, I’ve got to hand it to the Dems on this manoeuvre - it was a cool move, so credit where its due.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/48555917
https://archive.ph/UB7sb (archived Xitter Link)
The GOP chair was caught off guard and scrambled—first delaying the vote, then trying to sabotage it by adding amendments to include Biden administration communications. Democrats called their bluff and agreed.
Then the GOP chair, Rep. Higgins, lied, claiming the motion FAILED until Rep. Robert Garcia forced a full roll call vote.
Ultimately, the vote passed 8-2 after 3 Republicans DEFIED their leadership and joined all 5 Democrats to pass the motion.
healthcare pls
This is one for the history books. They followed through on something for as many as a few hours. Truly legendary libs
You know what’s a bright idea? Let’s kneecap ourselves anytime we make forward progress. Fantastic way to keep morale up. Good job comrade.
If you make a habbit of not stabbing me in the back and building a super strong robot arm to throw my body through the floor, ill stop being bitter and cynical about it.
I know this is alien to you, but some of us have memory and object permanence, so decades of unceasing and often spectacular betrayal aren’t instantly forgotten.
Your redemptove acts must be as loud as your sins, and this… Could in theory be a start, but im excited to see how they’ll shit the bed and rape me in it.
If you want to keep believing liberals won’t disappoint you don’t let me shatter the illusion.
If you’re open to new ideas, consider that liberalism is literally the ideology of self-righteous impotence.
Hey now, I can both be hopeful and not believe
Right there with you
this post doesn’t clearly dunk on libs. banned!
Removed by mod
Here is the entire vote and all surrounding context. The supposed “lie” about the vote count is either made up for engagement bait by whatever anonymous jaggoff still trolls x on their call to activism account, or more cynically, is run by a professional troll trying to intentionally bury the lede about nancy mace defining the word “credible” in relation to her own ethos and the democrats feckless attempt to prevent her from neutering their surprise 11th hour hail mary.
The committee agreed to redact information on victims, yet Democrats successfully blocked a push by Republicans to only subpoena information that was deemed to be “credible” — language that Trump has also used when discussing what he would support releasing.
Also, GOP controlled sources are obviously not acceptable.
