Folks want impeachment.
We know it won’t remove the president, given the senate.
But it will bring a different kind of investigation process.
Folks want that impeachment process! That, along with the change in the ‘common sense’ of politics that comes along with an official process starting.
The justification for not doing that is that Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to be seen as slowing down the congress. She doesn’t want to disturb the current ‘common sense’, even though it makes no sense.
The problem is that, just like impeachment, nothing good has ANY chance of happening in congress writ large. There IS no job for them to do, practically speaking, aside from budget issues — which already are basically a garbage fire.
So, in light of that — most of us wonder, what on earth they are waiting for? A sign from magical aliens? Like 75% of Democrats at least want an impeachment process, and like 25% want to avoid it in polls, and the percent skews even more pro-impeachment here.
But somehow, every thread is chock-a-block filled with anti-impeachment messages. That’s really odd.
Why is it wrong to be mad at Nancy Pelosi for not serving her basic role?
Why is it wrong to represent your own viewpoint?
There is no chess here — there’s not even checkers. There’s no game to even play here — there’s no pieces to play, except impeachment. And that piece has only a few moves — investigate for a long time, or impeach on a single or a couple counts, then repeat again on another count or two and repeat again until the election.
The whole point is to bring out the issues, expose the guilty repeatedly, expose the crimes and consequences, and actually reverse those same consequences rather than just wallow in how unfair the nasty people are being to us.
Nancy Pelosi seems to just want to wallow in how nasty folks are being to her, and hope that will be seen as balanced and respectable. That never EVER works, historically speaking.
You need to make your case as a leader of a party — not just keep your head down and expect your minority of supporters within your party to justify your existence for you every day, as your actions become more and more bizarre.
The older generations will shift out soon — and this will be remembered as a really, really, really shameful period. What I can’t understand is why we don’t at least move in that direction, even a little — why we don’t embrace even a SLIGHTLY more liberal future, but do this silly game of sitting, and doing nothing, and calling it virtuous, or cagey.
It’s none of those things — it’s like when we found out that TORTURE, literal TORTURE was going on —when it happened during the Iraq conflicts, we investigated it, and we didn’t properly prosecute it, and let it wear itself out over time. Now, when those same levels of horror are being done, right under our noses, Democratic leaders seem to sit and let it happen. Yet, even disagreeing with that is seen as a flaw on the part of the complainer to a very large and vocal part of our group.
Is it really Pelosi-bashing to say that? To be unhappy with this utter waste of opportunity? To see impeachment thrown away out of fear, and calling it virtue — it should disgust anyone.