Seditious Six Member Slips and Makes Telling

As we wrote earlier, Thomas Massie’s stunt to get the ball rolling on impeaching Secretary of War Pete Hegseth acquired shut down late Tuesday afternoon, with every Republican in attendance, besides Massie, voting to ship it to the House Judiciary Committee, which suggests it is not going anyplace in this lame-duck Congress.

House blocks Massie’s impeachment effort of Hegseth, bottling it up in cmte. Vote was 211-204 to ship it to the Judiciary Cmte, ending Massie’s gambit. No straight up/down vote on impeachment articles

— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) November 10, 2026

In the lead-up to Tuesday’s vote, critics of the trouble, including Hegseth himself, noticed that the impeachment attempt, which was supported by revenge-hungry Democrats, was not about something legitimately impeachable but reasonably coverage variations with the president – which isn’t one thing the impeachment instrument is meant to be used for. 

As RedState’s Pentagon reporter, R.C. Maxwell, reported:

Hegseth made sure to embody a historic catalog of wartime choices that never produced an impeachment, an undercurrent that appeared to preview a core factor of his legal protection: that the costs mirror coverage disagreements reasonably than the high crimes or misdemeanors required to take away a cupboard officer.

[…]

He called Massie’s effort an attempt to “shred” that normal over coverage indifference. “That’s what it’s. Policy disagreements. Not high crimes. Not misdemeanors. Not treason. Not bribery.” 

[…]

[Hegseth insisted that] “the proper remedy for a policy disagreement is legislation, it’s debate, it’s the next presidential election. It’s not handing the House and Senate floor to the Democrats so that they can run a show trial against the president and the Secretary of War while Republicans still control Congress.” 

Not surprisingly, a member of the “Seditious Six,” Democrat Rep. Jason Crow (CO-06), slipped up and made the admission during a contentious Fox News interview forward of the vote. George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley watched the exchange and tweeted about it:

…Rep. Crow is talking of impeachment as a method of forcing “a course change.” It is strictly the cavalier angle toward impeachment that will be so destabilizing for our nation…

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) November 10, 2026

Hats off to anchor Martha MacCallum for not letting him off the hook and getting him to admit it. Watch:

🔥 Martha MacCallum SHUTS DOWN Jason Crow on Hegseth: “You’re making an ENORMOUS amount of assumptions.” Crow: “I want Pete Hegseth removed” MacCallum: “it’s not the people’s choice, it’s the PRESIDENT’S choice.” Crow folds on live TV. https://t.co/AYAtDOmlW9

— Mr Producer (@RichSementa) November 10, 2026

Later, Turley appeared on this system, calling what Crow talked about “constitutionally incomprehensible” and his rationalization for utilizing the impeachment instrument “chilling.”

Watch:

“Constitutionally incomprehensible…” WATCH: @JonathanTurley slams Dems for “chilling” Hegseth impeachment menace without evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors” https://t.co/7FMHpnSND8

— The Story (@TheStoryFNC) November 10, 2026

Democrat Rep. Ro Khanna (CA-17) made a comparable argument to Crow’s prior to the vote while noting he was “working with Thomas Massie to try to get the votes for tonight”:

Rep. @RoKhanna: We need to impeach Hegseth. If there was one message this election, it’s that people didn’t need the battle in Iran. Hegseth wants to go. https://t.co/RjEhKCQ90o

— Headquarters (@HQNewsNow) November 10, 2026

As many of us predicted, they’re already overplaying their hand. It never fails. And sadly, this is only a warm-up of what’s to come.

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