https://x.com/i/status/1948211079001051267
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.
That’s my point. It’s performative but also gets them on the record to expose the hypocrisy.
It’s performative? So it won’t actually cause the “subpoena ALL the Jeffrey Epstein files” as the post says? My point is it’s just a little hard to see what the vote actually does from the context given, although I don’t doubt there will be political fallout from it.
This is deeper than I care to expound upon but the simple version:
The democrats have been voted into a corner. They have almost enough power to be relevant but not nearly enough to prevent Republic卐n bullshit.
So, while they get blamed for every atrocity the conservatives force upon us, they have no other choice but to make the votes illuminate the right’s hypocrisy.
So, when they say they’re against something (Trump’s pedophilia in this case) and we all know that they’ll reverse course to please Dotard tomorrow, it’s nice to push the GQP into a corner and watch them have to choose the light.