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Slugga: Hakeem the dream flunks his post-midterm leadership test

November 12, 2026 | | Print Article

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Historic first black House Speaker-in-waiting Hakeem Jeffries has already flunked his first post-midterm leadership test.

The current House minority leader suffered another major embarrassment when 11 members of his caucus couldn’t be bothered to even show up for the vote to impeach embattled War Secretary Pete Hegseth, infuriating leftists who already weren’t keen on his sticking around in a leadership spot, let alone the top one.

Democrats had a chance to keep the juices of their base flowing by voting on libertarian goofball Thomas Massie’s eight impeachment articles against the ex-Fox News host, but managed to screw it up and leave Dollar Store Obama with egg running down his face, something that he seems to have gotten used to.

They could have gotten a jump on their expected lynchings of Trump administration officials on Tuesday by impeaching Hegseth, a symbolic gesture but one that would have served up a heaping helping of satisfying red meat to the party’s voters.

But the scheduled vote went awry as the nearly dozen Democrats ghosted it, including top-spot former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had better things to do in the final weeks before her long overdue retirement.

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It was just the latest humiliation of Jeffries by rogue House Dems who continue to show how little respect that they have for him, likely well aware of the reality that his tough-talking badass act is as phony as a three-dollar bill and that he’s a paper tiger.

Even though the Massie impeachment was a joke that stood less than a snowball’s chance in hell of advancing to a GOP-controlled Senate, it was a black eye for Jeffries, who had already been humiliated by rogue House members on more than one occasion.

Just last week, Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) dropped a surprise endorsement of GOP Senate hopeful Mike Rogers to settle a score with now-Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed, catching the entire party off guard and sparking criticism of Jeffries, who failed to anticipate that a woman who was clearly a loose cannon could go rogue over her hurt feelings.

“Haley Stevens made a terrible decision, blindsided everyone and isolated herself from the House Democratic caucus. We will have a discussion about appropriate next steps upon our return,” Jeffries told Politico at the time.

But like with earlier incidents with two renegades, Reps. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (D-Wash.), he failed to mete out the sort of ruthless punishment that Pelosi would have by making an example of the lawmakers to keep others in line.

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Is it any wonder why the 11 absentees had no respect for the feckless leader?

Fresh off the historic landslide that could give his party upward of 260 House seats, the wannabe wielder of the mighty gavel just gave more ammo to his critics who believe that he’s too soft and squishy to lead the Democrat impeachment mob.

There are Democrats who will point to the Hegseth impeachment debacle as further proof that Jeffries isn’t fit to lead, but there is little doubt he would have the vote of the Republicans who, despite their minority, are looking forward to using him as a footstool in the next Congress.

Chris Donaldson
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