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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPelosi Never Actually Ruled Out Impeachment
Molly Ball: Conventional wisdom in Washington tends to treat impeachment as a fringe crusade, on a par with campaigns by antifluoridation activists or UFO enthusiasts, and views Pelosi as right to resist this momentum. Many believe it would be a political disaster for Democrats, galvanizing Trumps base and alienating moderates. Republicans have taken to goading their opponents to try it, while White House officials say they relish the prospect of the Democratic Party tearing itself apart over the issue.
But Pelosi is actually playing a deeper game. Her aides note that shes never ruled impeachment out. All shes done, they say, is set a standard: increased popular support and some degree of GOP backing. Behind the scenes, she and her team are working to see that standard is met.
Said one senior Pelosi aide: The easy thing to do would be to start down the path of impeachment. Thats a trap. Now that we have the gavel and can expose all of this wrongdoing, I think you will start to see a shift in public opinion and movement of Republicans.
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Pelosi Never Actually Ruled Out Impeachment (Original Post)
kpete
Mar 2019
OP
Nancy is one smart cookie. Why do some people keep underestimating her wisdom?
CrossingTheRubicon
Mar 2019
#3
Not just here-- the bloviating over "what she said" made it seem like...
TreasonousBastard
Mar 2019
#5
Blues Heron
(5,944 posts)1. I'm pretty tired of 8 dimensional chess. Sometimes you have to stand up.
this is one of those times.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)2. Pelosi knows what she is doing
Despite all the BS from the nay sayers, she is doing the right thing. Piece by piece the facts will come out and they will show just how corrupt trump is, and how much he has abused his power. The public will see what he did, and the vast majority will be pissed about it.
Let her do her job!
CrossingTheRubicon
(731 posts)3. Nancy is one smart cookie. Why do some people keep underestimating her wisdom?
TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)4. Anyone who actually bothered to read or listen to what she said knew that.
The kneejerk reaction by some around here was silly, but predictable.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)5. Not just here-- the bloviating over "what she said" made it seem like...
nobody actually listened to what she said.
TwilightZone
(25,499 posts)6. Agreed.
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)7. If it was really "off the table"...
she would have shut down the investigations. The important thing is to continue the investigations and keep revealing the criminality and venality of the administraton. There may not be time for impeachment, but the more that gets out regarding the POSUS the better.