JimBowie1958
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Seriously, Nancy Pelosi is an astute political operative. She is no dummy She understands what is at stake with a failed impeachment that looks stupid to Main Street; loss of 20-30 seats and control of the house going to the GOP in next years elections.
So she has tried to suppress this reckless Woketard urge to impeach Trump for....well anything they can scrape up.
She had a meeting with Jerry 'Shortstuff' Nadler and read him the riot act.
“Feel Free To Leak This”: Pelosi Blasts Judiciary Committee Over Impeachment Efforts
And of course they leaked it despite her sarcasm, because that is what political whores do in DC, leak to friends in the press or they wont be friends for long.
But top vote swinging leaders in the Democratic Caucus have started breaking in favor of impeachment over the Weekend as Trump taunted the Democrats, basically telling them to go pound sand, and then acting like the victim and crying about Witch Hunts. It is as if the Democrats have never heard of the story about the little boy who cried wolf too many times.
Done deal: John Lewis backs impeachment as Dem leaders prepare to huddle this afternoon
And of course the article then quote AOC as if this freshman from Brooklyn who won a district a Democrat glass of water could have won knows a damned thing other than squeeling desperation to her fellow Marxist radicals.
So what was our hero, Nancy, going to do? She was caught between the rock of Reality and the quicksand of her idiot base of Marxists, and things were looking bleak for our fearless heroine.
Then she comes up with an idea; she will announce an inquiry for impeachment. What is that actually since to initiate a real impeachment youhave to pass a House resolution calling for impeachment proceedings?
Well, it is smoke and mirrors, that is what it is. She is appeasing her base of nutballs while maintaining plausible deniability later for her slim majority that resides in districts that went for Trump in 2016.
Well played, Madam Speaker, well played!
I admire you.
But of course the Republicans are in full throat calling all this exactly what it is; political theater and a joke.
Facts have never stopped Democrats before from pursuing Biden Truth that is contrary to facts, so why let it stop them now?
So she has tried to suppress this reckless Woketard urge to impeach Trump for....well anything they can scrape up.
She had a meeting with Jerry 'Shortstuff' Nadler and read him the riot act.
“Feel Free To Leak This”: Pelosi Blasts Judiciary Committee Over Impeachment Efforts
For over two years, I have written that the Democratic leadership had no intention to impeach Donald Trump. The problem has been that the voters gave the House back to the Democrats in part to pursue impeachment. With the House Judiciary Committee moving forward, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has become more and more direct in reminding them that this is not a real effort. The most strident statements came out of a meeting yesterday with Pelosi not only blasting the Committee (and its Chair Jerry Nadler) but telling attendees “feel free to leak this.”
Pelosi criticized the Committee and made clear that impeachment is a pipe dream. It is a direct and surprising rebuke of Nadler and his allies. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, portrayed Pelosi as just focused on politics rather than principle: “Nadler is talking about law, Pelosi is talking about politics. Nadler is looking at high crimes and misdemeanors, and we are inundated with them in the Judiciary Committee. But Pelosi is looking at the political side of it.”
Pelosi criticized the Committee and made clear that impeachment is a pipe dream. It is a direct and surprising rebuke of Nadler and his allies. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the Judiciary Committee, portrayed Pelosi as just focused on politics rather than principle: “Nadler is talking about law, Pelosi is talking about politics. Nadler is looking at high crimes and misdemeanors, and we are inundated with them in the Judiciary Committee. But Pelosi is looking at the political side of it.”
And of course they leaked it despite her sarcasm, because that is what political whores do in DC, leak to friends in the press or they wont be friends for long.
But top vote swinging leaders in the Democratic Caucus have started breaking in favor of impeachment over the Weekend as Trump taunted the Democrats, basically telling them to go pound sand, and then acting like the victim and crying about Witch Hunts. It is as if the Democrats have never heard of the story about the little boy who cried wolf too many times.
Done deal: John Lewis backs impeachment as Dem leaders prepare to huddle this afternoon
With such heavy momentum towards impeachment, there’s no way centrist Dems will hold out once the caucus is approaching a majority in favor of impeachment. Like I said yesterday, at some point they’ll have more to fear from their base by refusing to impeach than they will from swing voters back home by agreeing to do it. Just last night Dem freshman Haley Stevens, who won last year in a Republican-leaning district, came out in favor of impeachment. There’ll be more like her....
Other big-name Democrats besides Lewis, like Dick Durbin, have also endorsed impeachment today, so the dam break really has already begun. The word as of 1 p.m. ET is that Pelosi and the leadership are considering creating a “select committee” for impeachment, shifting the matter away from the Judiciary Committee. The idea is to consolidate the various impeachment claims against Trump and to hand the process to a group of Democrats who are willing to move against Trump more aggressively than Jerry Nadler has. (Given the tension between Pelosi and Nadler lately, she may think she’ll have more authority over a select committee than she would if she let Nadler handle this.) But some House Dems are skeptical that it’s a play to slow down the process and will argue against it....
Other big-name Democrats besides Lewis, like Dick Durbin, have also endorsed impeachment today, so the dam break really has already begun. The word as of 1 p.m. ET is that Pelosi and the leadership are considering creating a “select committee” for impeachment, shifting the matter away from the Judiciary Committee. The idea is to consolidate the various impeachment claims against Trump and to hand the process to a group of Democrats who are willing to move against Trump more aggressively than Jerry Nadler has. (Given the tension between Pelosi and Nadler lately, she may think she’ll have more authority over a select committee than she would if she let Nadler handle this.) But some House Dems are skeptical that it’s a play to slow down the process and will argue against it....
And of course the article then quote AOC as if this freshman from Brooklyn who won a district a Democrat glass of water could have won knows a damned thing other than squeeling desperation to her fellow Marxist radicals.
So what was our hero, Nancy, going to do? She was caught between the rock of Reality and the quicksand of her idiot base of Marxists, and things were looking bleak for our fearless heroine.
Then she comes up with an idea; she will announce an inquiry for impeachment. What is that actually since to initiate a real impeachment youhave to pass a House resolution calling for impeachment proceedings?
Well, it is smoke and mirrors, that is what it is. She is appeasing her base of nutballs while maintaining plausible deniability later for her slim majority that resides in districts that went for Trump in 2016.
Well played, Madam Speaker, well played!
I admire you.
But of course the Republicans are in full throat calling all this exactly what it is; political theater and a joke.
Facts have never stopped Democrats before from pursuing Biden Truth that is contrary to facts, so why let it stop them now?
