Rep #JimmyGomez, #Democrat CA, asked if #Gabbard or #Ratcliffe had any info as to whether #Defense Sec #PeteHegseth had been drinking the day he texted clearly #classified information on #Signal.
Gomez’s question resulted in an explosion of feigned indignation from Ratcliffe–accusing Gomez of inappropriate behavior. Gomez replied #Hegseth’s alcohol abuse was a concern to Americans & he’d sworn in his confirmation hearing he’d quit. Yet, Hegseth recently appeared at a podium in Europe w/a drink.

Rep #JasonCrow, #Democrat of Colorado, asked #TulsiGabbard if she was traveling during the time of the attack & the #Signal discussion. She said she was traveling in Asia, but did not recall what country.

Crow made the point that the #Houthis have been able to shoot down U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drones, one of the weapons used in the strike on #Yemen & got #Gabbard to say she knew Houthis had that capability.

While Rep Raja Krishnamoorthi, #Democrat of IL, spoke, he displayed an oversized printout of the #Signal texts published by #TheAtlantic this morning. #Krishnamoorthi referenced the graphic multiple times while questioning Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Kruse, director of the #Defense #Intelligence Agency, on whether the information detailing operational plans was #classified or not.

Kruse admitted his agency would define the type of information shared as classified.

In the #intelligence hearing, Rep #JoaquinCastro, #Democrat of Texas, took issue with the intelligence officials saying the information in the #Signal chat on the #Houthi strikes was not #classified. “You all know that’s a lie,” he said. “It’s a lie to the country.”

Rep #JimHimes, the top #Democrat on the #House #Intelligence Committee, asked #TulsiGabbard, the director of national intelligence, about her testimony on Tues that precise details about the attack were not included in the chat, given the new release of messages that contradict that. “My answer yesterday was based on my recollection, or the lack thereof, on the details that were posted there,” she said.

@mark @tess001

I admit to what you're saying but also note polls showed #BernieSanders beating #Trump in the general #election in 2016

So if the #Democrat powerbrokers had any backbone and brain and heart they would have read the writing on the wall

Oh, they're certainly reading the writing on the wall now

Well...

You will still find mindless #centrist shit in the #Democrats denying the future even now

Such pathetic tools need to be driven to the quarry and pushed in (figuratively!)

Sen #DickDurbin, a #Democrat, & Sen #LindseyGraham, a #Republican, plan to introduce a bill that would set an expiration date of Jan 1, 2027, for #Section230, acc/to a congressional aide familiar…. The senators have wide support from their respective parties: #Republicans #JoshHawley & #MarshaBlackburn & #Democrats #SheldonWhitehouse & #AmyKlobuchar have agreed to co-sponsor the bill. 2 more Dems, #RichardBlumenthal & #PeterWelch, have discussed cosponsoring.

The bipartisan letter, signed by 17 lawmakers & organized by Representative Greg Landsman, #Democrat of Ohio, said that “the #ForeignAid freeze has jeopardized, & may ultimately eliminate, our informational support of #Ukraine on this front.”

The #State Dept & the Yale center “had been preserving evidence of #abducted #children from Ukraine it had identified, to be shared w/ #Europol & the govt of Ukraine to secure their return,” the letter says.

@MissGayle

Yes. My father was a #conservative #Republican. He died while #Reagan was in the White House. My mother was a #Democrat. It was my dad who took me to political events when I was in high school.

He expected electeds to do their jobs. That is, represent the voters who put them there. This why I can legitimately name things Republicans supported that were actually good for people.

- Exploring cloud seeding to combat drought as an alternative to
rerouting or damming waterways.

- Ethanol in gasoline. The idea was it burned cleaner and would be a way to use agricultural overproduction as well as use waste from food crops.

- Universal Basic Income. Nixon supported UBI, but his crookedness tainted the idea.

In the late 1970s, the #FBI ran an operation called Abscam, targeting corruption. The Republican rep for my dad's district not only turned down the bribe, he reported it to the FBI.

These assclowns are not conservative. Move fast and break shit is the exact opposite of conserving. Redundancy is conservative; efficiency is not.

@gwynnion@mastodon.social Tim Walz, could have been President. And even if he didn't win, his loss would have been by a small margin.

There was no way, Kamala Harris was going to win, anymore than Hillary Clinton was going to win. And it has nothing to do with them being a woman. It just has to be the correct individual, which neither of those two were.

#Democrat #Democracy #UsPol #Politics

@virtualbri @palin I’d have a really hard time choosing between Katie and #Kamala if I lived in the Golden State. Right now, it pains me to say, anyone is better than who’s in there now. No, wait a minute, I didn’t mean that, I meant any #Democrat would be better.

@godpod

Both parties have epic fails when it comes to caring about #veterans.

I'm a boomer who has voted almost exclusively #Democrat over the years & I have to call out #JohnMcCain as a stellar example of one #Republican who always tried to do the right thing for vets. There are others from both parties.

We, me 100% included, all need to be careful of broadbrush statements.

It's easy to get into us vs. them & miss people who really made a difference.