So Nancy relents to GOP pressure and will call for a House vote to proceed with “ public” hearings in an impeachment process. What else could she do when her critics have been right but she refused to concede their point?
So she throws MSNBC, CNN, and the NYTimes under the bus for her previous skip-the-vote stance.
Lindsay Graham takes a well deserved victory lap.
Heh. She just kicked away the last Republican defense.
LOL. Using secrecy to skirt responsible governing wasn’ t moving the political arrow toward impeachment. Pelosi is smart enough to realize that Adam Schiff behind locked hearing doors and selectively leaking would never turn 20 votes in the Senate.
I think that it has become increasingly obvious that using that well-worn example, IF TRUMP SHOT SOMEONE ON 5TH AVENUE, that Perry Mason could not get 20 Republican Senators to convict him of anything.
The confidential collecting of depositions and evidence is entirely legit and as has been refernced before, has been used by the Republicans in the investigations they have led.
None the less the greater transparency of the the impeachment inquiry and the public hearings will educate Americans who will hopefully hear the case for, and the case against, and make a reasoned decision, not only on the president, but on the House and Senate.
IMO if the past is any predictor of the future, the Republican Trump enablers will be shown in a very poor light, but there will be enough light for the vast majority of Americans to see the Republicans for what they are, duplicitous cowards with no moral backbone to stand up to a corrupt and inept President who weakens us as a country every day.
Now Trump may not get convicted, after all finding 20 Republican senators with guts to do the right thing may be impossible, but the price may be extraordinarily high for Repubs, and I suspect they will come up very short when its time to pay it in November 2020.
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