I don’t spend as much time here as once, but enough of late to notice some mix-it-up between supporters of Nancy Pelosi’s careful but frustrating briar patch agenda and proponents of Immediate Impeachment Inquiries.
And, in all honesty, I can’t understand the beef. Pelosi has staked out the far corner of more-in-sorrow-than-anger reluctance. Others in our caucus, and even a representative on the other side of the aisle, have taken a stronger stance.
Of course there are considerations of optics, timing and other excruciatingly shallow and frustrating stations of the Overton cross from the party establishment. That’s the job of an “establishment,” after all, and our current Speaker has, in my opinion, one of the finest-tuned, deep-penetrating political radars in use today.
And there are, as there should be, ever more insistent voices, in our caucus and the country, adding pressure to the House establishment to put an official imprimatur of impeachment behind the growing demands for transparency from this administration.
What I’m trying to say is, as hard and as screamingly frustrating as this is, the system is working.
Moderate elements are trying to temper those who would move too quickly. Citizens are rising up to demand their representatives hold a corrupt executive accountable. We are all doing our jobs, and damned well, in my opinion. We’re not done yet, but, so far, I think Madison might approve.
We all know where this road is leading.
I, for one, am impressed at how carefully we are driving.