Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader.

Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit strategy — and no plan for managing the inevitable political fallout.

The knives-out campaign comes despite private acknowledgement from House and Senate GOP strategists that the party’s problems extended far beyond the war, triggering 2008-level losses that will take years to reverse. But for now, party leaders – and many in their ranks – remain unwilling to directly blame Trump for their woes.

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    This would be perfect. I hope the GOP impeaches Hegseth, and then the democrats impeach Trump when they take office in January.

    Let the heads roll.

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    He should be tried for the war crimes he committed, not just impeached. Can a SecDef be submitted to a military Court Martial?

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    Knowing democrats. This will be their one. Get it. Celebrate all over the internet. And then just stop going after traitors and pedophiles.

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      The problem with trying to get votes by accusing your competition of being outright criminals is that when you get into power, you need to follow up on that claim. Then it turns out that you were just lying and no investigation actually turns up anything.

      And now the people who took those claims seriously expect lots of people go to jail and nobody does, and they think that the system is rigged. But it was just mundane lying.

      (I don’t know if GOP are actual criminals actually, just extrapolating from how these have gone in the past)

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    thats the thing about Fascists, they will canabilize one another in order to save their own asses. Send him to the Hague.

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        Hell yeah! I’d say “eat the rich,” but I’m sure they all taste like utter shit, especially the illegal immigrant people want to become the first trillionaire. If fElon succeeds, it’ll be like opening Pandora’s box and we may never be able to close it without losing millions of good people. So, let them “cananalize” each other…that way we don’t have to taste their tainted flesh.

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      This, I’m really looking forward to this. They don’t to blame Trump (yet) so they’re going to try to take each other down

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    Dejavu, it’s like the Iraq war all over again where suddenly there’s not a republican to be found that was in favor of it once their grip on power slips

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    “I think he probably knows he’s dead but would like an exit sufficiently dramatic that it gives him a launching pad to run for POTUS,” one administration official said.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahaaa… oh… man… I needed that.

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      Donvict Drumpf was elected PresiDunce. Twice.
      Before that Bush jr was thought of as a dumb dumb, but he got elected. Twice.

      Think about that before you write off the stupidity of kegsbreath trying it.

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        Bush Jr stole his first election and then 9/11 made people lose their minds enough to actually want him back. It’s not quite the same as the Trump bullshit, which I’m convinced was still largely a racist backlash to Obama mixed with the Democrats running terrible candidates both times Trump won.

        Hopefully this election will show that progressive candidates drive turnout, but I’m not keeping my hopes up that the oligarchs won’t find a way around that.

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      I love this idea specifically because the US would then be acknowledging and ratifying their relationship with the ICC.