Patrick Howley

How Democratic power brokers and a Tucker Carlson ally joined forces to turn allegations about Lindsey Graham into a weapon against his sister. My story for @NYMag. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…

With due respect, the Articles are about breaking the law and violating the Constitution, not policy disagreements. For instance, Article III clearly describes how he is in violation of the law requiring congressional approval for a conflict that lasts more than 60 days.

Vivek is gone. Just straight up left. “Account is not actively managed.” 😂

🚨 BREAKING: House Republicans just voted to block the impeachment of Pete Hegseth.

I like how the dude in the speaker’s chair tried to pull that “in my opinion the yeas have it.”

Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not. Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential). The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps. This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.

I’ve heard from several members they agree with some of the Articles of Impeachment but not all of them. If the motion to kill my resolution by referring it to committee fails, and we proceed to the Articles themselves, I’ll request a vote on each of the Articles separately.

🔥🚨 JUST IN — Speaker Johnson said Thomas Massie is a disgruntled congressman and that his impeachment effort against Pete Hegseth is a political gambit for attention. JOHNSON: "The idea that you would impeach the Secretary of War at a time of international conflict sends a terrible message to our enemies and our allies and we are not going to play that game." Even Rep. Austin Scott, one of Hegseth’s top GOP critics, said he is voting no. JOHNSON: "I expect that we're going to defeat that, one way or the other, and we'll get on with the business." The floor vote is expected this evening. Massie’s stunt is dead on arrival in the Senate anyway. Trump and Stephen Miller are fully behind Pete as well. Johnson is done entertaining this.

Trump’s crashouts are getting worse by the day. Massie Derangement Syndrome is real.

WATCH: @RepThomasMassie declines to say if he’ll support the GOP nominee in 2028👇🏼 @gatewaypundit