A member of the independent counsel team that recommended the impeachment of President Bill Clinton says that President Trump’s attempts to obstruct justice are “blunter by a thousandfold” than anything Clinton did and more than justifies the House Judiciary Committee opening impeachment proceedings.
So what are the dems waiting for?
Enough Republicans to put country over party to make it plausible. Not that this will happen.
I think what REDSTATEWARD is jonesing to point out is that Impeachment doesn’t poll well. But it didn’t poll well for Nixon either, before Congress started its investigation.
It certainly didn’t poll well for Clinton but the GOP did it anyway. Of course, there it was less about duty to the Constitution (their premise was largely ridiculous) and more about politically dinging a popular President. The Starr report was also specifically written as an impeachment referral, giving them the cover they needed, where the Mueller report (which unlike Starr’s investigation, and despite Trump’s protestations to the contrary) did not originate as a partisan hit-job.
If Democrats thought impeachment would get any kind of hearing in the Senate, they would go forward with it. As it is, the calculation may be that it isn’t worth (possibly) paying a political price to make a symbolic stand. Trump’s best (and probably only) chance at winning 2020 would be a massive mobilization of his base, and his playing the victim of a “Deep State coup” attempt would be one way that happens. But even then, the Democrats are far from unified behind the cautious route. Also worth noting, the more Trump refuses any kind of House oversight, the more he makes a case for his removal, and the less it seems like the Dems are just out to get him.
But the focus is on “what will the Democrats do” when it should be on the Republicans and their lies and abdication of duty. They are now going all in on the “President’s” call to investigate the investigators when they know full well (Lindsay Graham certainly does) that the Mueller Investigation was 100% legitimate at its birth, and was implemented in a 100% professional and nonpartisan way.
Which is what Trump thought too when he thought the report exonerated him, and the focus then was Adam Schiff. Suddenly its back to the 13 angry Democrats routine, lol.