Showing posts with label Hakeem Jeffries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hakeem Jeffries. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 24, 2024

This would be quite the payback to Trump for Jan 6, 2021 lol

 The House Speaker election is January 3, 2025.

You've got 34 Republicans pissed off at passage of the American Relief Act on December 20th by Mike Johnson and 170 Republicans.

Hakeem Jeffries has already told everyone Democrats will not help elect Mike Johnson speaker again because he stiffed them on the continuing spending resolution. Democrats are pissed off, too, although 196 did vote Yea on the bill.

So Republicans absolutely need those 34 to re-elect Johnson to speaker on Jan 3rd.

But let's say they don't, and the process drags out like it did with Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

The 2024 election results go to Congress in joint session for casting of the electoral college votes on January 6th, but that wouldn't happen without a speaker to swear-in the new House.

Jan 6, 2025 could be disrupted for Trump.

Very amusing.

Discussed here.

Monday, December 23, 2024

Hakeem Jeffries repays GOP for pulling original continuing spending resolution last week: Mike Johnson's House speakership won't be saved by Democrat votes in January

 

 
. . . there will be no Democrats available to save him or the extreme MAGA Republicans from themselves based on the breaching of a bipartisan agreement that reflected priorities good for the American people.

Monday, August 19, 2024

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times: Joe Biden was pushed out by Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, and Jeffries, and their handprints are on his back, and Trump will still win


It was a jaw-dropping putsch, she says, a coup even.

Pelosi knifed her pal, she says.

Obama has now sidelined Joe Biden twice, she says.

Everyone's mad at one another at the DNC in Chicago, she says.

"Top Democrats are bristling with resentment".

Read it at The Irish Times.

Thursday, November 16, 2023

US House Democrat minority leader Hakeem Jeffries crows over passage of more of the same old, same old bloated spending by continuing resolution

Looking forward to a Moody's downgrade, if they've got the guts. Congress certainly doesn't.

 

Senate sends funding bill to Biden’s desk, averting a government shutdown :

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed a stopgap funding bill Wednesday night, punting the GOP’s spending fight and the threat of a government shutdown until after the holidays.

The bipartisan vote was 87-11, with 10 Republicans and one Democrat — Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado — voting against the bill. ...

The short-term bill, known as a continuing resolution, or CR, cleared the House on Tuesday on a lopsided 336-95 vote, with all but two of the no votes coming from Republicans. The funding bill next heads to President Joe Biden’s desk for his expected signature. ...

“No spending cuts, no right-wing extreme policy changes, no government shutdown, no votes tomorrow, Happy Thanksgiving,” he said. “That is a type of report that, when you are able to give it, means morale is very high.”

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Speaker Pelosi snubs Justin Amash for impeachment manager, names some unknown Democrats instead

  • Pelosi names Reps. Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Hakeem Jeffries, Zoe Lofgren, Val Demings, Jason Crow and Sylvia Garcia to manage the House impeachment case against Trump.
I sure hope the job comes with a map so they can find the US Senate chambers, and a pocket copy of the constitution.