Just reading this article on Salon:
www.salon.com/…
Pelosi made clear Monday that, despite the newly elected president’s “reckless” and seemingly unpopular actions his first weeks in office, they are “not grounds for impeachment.”
“I’m not here to talk about impeachment today,” she told the gathered reporters shortly after Waters made her comments. “Any of the things that the congresswoman said are grounds for displeasure and unease in the public about the performance of this president, who has acted in a way that is strategically incoherent, that is incompetent, that is reckless.” But, Pelosi added, “that is not grounds for impeachment.”
Pelosi continued, “When and if he breaks the law, that is when something like that would come up.” Of course, Democrats are outnumbered in both the House and Senate, presenting them with an uphill battle if they actually seek to impeach Trump.
This is, as politicians love to say, sending the wrong message. It looks like she is clearing Trump of wrongdoing and that she may be once again taking impeachment off the table. She sounds like she knows for sure that whatever he is doing and has done for his first two weeks is not grounds for impeachment. To me that looks a lot like self delusion. Perhaps we don’t know if there is a watertight case for impeachment yet, but that’s why we need an investigation. She should use every single forum like this to call for an investigation. If she doesn’t feel comfortable yet calling for impeachment, she should say, we don’t know, but we need to investigate. I know that at other times recently she has called for an investigation but we need her to be relentless about this. These statements are showing relent. We know for a fact that he still is very tightly connected to his businesses that may be funneling international bribes to him as I type, and that there is clearly something he is not telling us about his relationship with Russia. He has eased some sanctions on Russia and if he was bribed or blackmailed to do that, we have something that could be called treason. We may not have the proof we need but I think we have probable cause to believe that high crimes and misdemeanors are being committed. Republicans would sure be investigating and leaving all innuendo of impeachment on the table. We don’t need to be like them, but jeez we need to be sending a message that we are watching and are not going to put up with this extreme corruption. Gahd.
We need her as our leader and public servant to not assume that impeachable crimes are not being committed, and if she does so, she is falling short of her duty and moreover failing to represent the public. Dems need a leader who is going to be tough on this and stay on message.