Yet she and Hoyer are perfectly willing to pass tons of Democratic policies out of the House knowing full well that the Senate will just vote them down. She knows well enough that the Dems can message on that, but refuses to make the same association with impeachment. The reason so many are infuriated with her right now is that she’s not saying “we’re keeping all options open”, she’s saying “yes, the president is violating the constitution and is almost certainly guilty of a number of crimes, but we’re not going to impeach him, we really just want to talk about infrastructure”. That’s a big difference. Meanwhile Nadler and half of the Judiciary Committee are seemingly crawling up the wall trying to get a hearing going, and more House Dems are publicly defecting from the “no impeachment” message by the day.
Honestly, opening an impeachment inquiry is the only way to break through the conservative media bubble where everything is rainbows and lolipops, because this is the kind of stuff happening out in the real world:
Thanks to Barr, Fox News and company can probably spin this report until the cows come home without anyone who watches them knowing any better, but if the House is actually running an impeachment inquiry they’re going to have to report on that. It’s going to be a lot harder to cover up the breadth and depth of Trump’s criminal activity when it’s live on C-SPAN than when it’s buried in a several-hundred-page report couched in “I’m not saying, I’m just saying…” language that none of the faithful are going to read.
Speaking of Pelosi and impeachment, I’ve been thinking more and more lately about how much of … this [gestures wildly] is a direct result of her and her fellow Democrats definitively refusing to impeach W Bush in 2006 for having plainly and openly lied the nation into a war with Iraq based on fabricated evidence. Nobody was held accountable for anything, and I think that just taught Republicans that they’re perfectly within their rights to go even further the next time. So they did.
