Inside Pelosi's impeachment battle plan

[brooklynite]

Politico

IF YOU’VE WATCHED SPEAKER NANCY PELOSI for any period of time in the majority, you know she has an uncanny ability to stay unflinchingly focused on a goal, without getting panicked or itchy or changing course. (Ironically, it’s a trait she shares with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- though don’t bring that up with them or their friends.)

AT THE MOMENT, Pelosi’s goal is quite clear: to avoid rushing to impeach President DONALD TRUMP. If you talk to her allies, her advisers and people close to her, they’ll tell you she believes the impeachment route is an all-around loser right now.

PELOSI ALLIES firmly believe that if Democrats impeach TRUMP, they will lose the presidency and the House in 2020 -- period. They also don’t believe Congress or the American public is behind impeachment at the moment. Further, they say that launching an inquiry that isn’t airtight could backfire as they pursue other legal options to extract documents from the White House.

HOUSE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS are keeping a very close eye on who comes out in favor of impeachment, but so far, they see mostly Judiciary Committee members who are living the day-to-day back-and-forth over document production and stonewalling, and progressives who have long been on the path to impeachment.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Country before party, The Constitution before The White House

Yes, proceed methodically, relentlessly in revealing the whole truth to the people.

But To avoid impeachment unilaterally due to fears over losing elections is cowardly defeatism.

[uponit7771]

3. +1, ... and there's no factual political reasons against impeachment. Red Don will never be popular

... to dems like Clinton was relatively popular to republicans in 98.

Also, dems didn't win anything post Clinton impeachment ... they lost be less ... that's not a win of control of any congressional house.

[uponit7771]

2. There are no cogent political reasons against impeachment. Clinton was relatively popular among KGOP

... at the time and republicans did no investigations post STARR report to get anyone else online with removing someone that was popular with republicans.

[pecosbob]

4. Sounds like Politico's a day behind

and don't know their arseholes from their elbows. Pelosi's statement this morning almost guarantees an eventual impeachment hearing and that it will come after proper investigative hearings held by the House. "We believe the President has engaged in a cover-up." For the Speaker, those are fighting words IMO. Justice just back-pedalled and agreed to release the redacted portions of the SC Report to Congress, Judge Mehata slapped down Trump's suit to shield Mazar from scrutiny, Cohen's phone shown to have contacted principal Russians over 1000 times post election day. I'd say Trump's having a pretty bad day and that the rumble you hear is momentum and inertia. And we haven't even seen or heard anything about what turned Feinstein as white as a sheet at the intelligence briefing about Flynn.