Past Comments Come Back to Bite Hakeem Jeffries After Record-Setting 'Filibuster'

Let’s all take a moment to be grateful the House of Representatives never adopted the filibuster. Not because it’s some treasured legislative tradition, but because watching House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries self-destruct on live television for nearly nine hours straight was already more than enough.

On Thursday, Jeffries took to the House floor in a marathon speech opposing President Donald J. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, the game-changing reconciliation package that cleared the Senate earlier this week and just passed the House in a tight 218–214 vote. His speech? The longest in House history.

What did he achieve? Nothing — aside from exposing his own hypocrisy and confirming, once again, that the modern Democrat playbook is built on double standards and emotional theatrics.

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The bill sailed through with just two Republican defections — Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, citing fiscal concerns, and Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania, who wanted more spending. Everyone else, even on the fence, saw through the showmanship and stood behind the legislation.

Still, that didn’t stop Jeffries from embracing his “magic minute” — a loophole allowing party leaders to speak as long as they please — to deliver a pointless speech soaked in melodrama.

“I feel the obligation, Mr. Speaker, to stand on this House floor and take my sweet time,” Jeffries declared. “To tell the stories of the American people.”

Translation: stall for time, toss red meat to the base, and try (unsuccessfully) to pick off a few moderate Republicans.

Naturally, left-wing cheerleaders ate it up. Brian Krassenstein, always ready to peddle partisan hysteria, gushed:

“Hakeem Jeffries has been speaking on the House floor for the last 4 hours straight trying to prevent the ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ from being passed.”

Spoiler: It passed anyway.

Even The Associated Press admitted Jeffries’ speech was essentially a filibuster in disguise — a delay tactic dressed up as storytelling. In their words:

“There’s no filibuster in the House, but Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries essentially conducted one anyway.”

But here’s the real kicker: Jeffries has long railed against the filibuster. In fact, during the Democrats’ failed push to federalize election law in 2022, he declared the Senate filibuster to be a tool “dripping in racist history,” a relic of “slavery and Jim Crow.” He vowed to pass voting legislation “by any means necessary,” which of course included abolishing the very tactic he just used himself — albeit from the other chamber.

Apparently, when it suits Democrat objectives, even tools they label “racist” become acceptable.

A commentator aptly put it: “I guess it’s not racist anymore.”

Let’s not forget President Joe Biden joined in on the moral grandstanding back then, equating filibuster defenders to segregationists:

“Do you want to be on the side of Dr. King or George Wallace? … Abraham Lincoln or Jefferson Davis?”

Strong words — that apparently don’t apply to Jeffries, now that he’s embraced the very tactic he condemned.

The takeaway is crystal clear: when Democrats are in power, they moralize and smear. When they’re out of power, they use the very same tactics they once decried — and expect no one to notice.

But Americans are noticing.

Jeffries didn’t just fail to block the bill; he opened the door to filibuster-style grandstanding in the House, setting a precedent he may soon regret. Under his own logic, that puts him squarely in the camp of those he once claimed were acting “in defense of slavery and Jim Crow.”

Will he own those words now? Don’t hold your breath.

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Democrats keep exposing themselves: say one thing, do the opposite, then scream foul when Republicans play by the same rules.

That’s why the American people are leaving the left behind and backing a GOP led by a president who gets things done — without the theatrics.

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