We reported on the ridiculous rant of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) that went on for about eight and a half hours in opposition to the "One Big Beautiful Bill." 

It was a complete failure. The bill passed, and people mocked Jeffries. 

Here was Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC): 

Trump Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino posted a meme with the theme from "Titanic," an appropriate choice for such a failure. 

As we reported, Jeffries' remarks were so uninspiring that Democrats like Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH) were falling asleep behind him. Once Democrats realized that, they humorously replaced her so Jeffries wouldn't look so bad. They wanted to show a uniformly supportive picture behind him for his rant.

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But it turns out not every Democrat was happy, and some dished to Axios. Members from his caucus were frustrated with how it went down, with even his "inner circle" kept "in the dark about his plans." He told House Speaker Mike Johnson he was going to do about an hour, so that wasn't even true.

"No one is upset Hakeem wanted to do this, but to not tell members, 'be prepared, book multiple flights, be flexible,'" a second House Democrat who spoke on the condition of anonymity vented, grumbling that it is particularly hard to rebook flights around the July 4 holiday. 

A third House Democrat fumed that a "heads up would have been nice."

That says a lot about Jeffries as a leader, when he doesn't even keep his own people in the loop. Is it any wonder why they fail and are in such chaos when he doesn't do something that simple? 

Then, of course, the whole thing was pointless since Jeffries was just delaying the inevitable — the rant wasn't going to change the result. 

Another Democrat made what is a pretty damning admission.

"The base wants to see certain things and we have to show them those things, otherwise they don't believe we're fighting hard enough," one House Democrat told Axios.

That House Democrat then said, "So much of politics has turned into showtime, and so we do showtime."

So even if they knew it wasn't going to change anything, it was about the performance for their base. That's all the Democrats are about now — bad performance art and "showtime." That's what they're trying to sell their base, rather than results. And they wonder why they're losing voters. 

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They should not have wasted everyone's time. They should have voted with Republicans, and not for a big tax increase on the American people. But at least Jeffries broke the speaking record! — as they went down to ignominious defeat, and no one cared about anything he said. Jeffries' ineptitude probably helped the Republicans to prevail. 

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