House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) tipped her hand to show the new Democratic strategy on dealing with impeachment Thursday, when she told reporters that the White House was “crying out” for Democrats to start the process.
She added that President Donald Trump stormed out of the infrastructure meeting because he was mad that the Democrats’ morning meeting Wednesday was not “called specifically for him.”
“That was what disappointed him, because he didn’t see this rush to impeachment coming out of our caucus,” she added.
Pelosi floats new Democratic impeachment strategy: The White House is “crying out” for impeachment pic.twitter.com/gh1MB7QTUb
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This is a shift for the Democrats who have been struggling to reconcile the belief of some of their members that the President should be impeached with the political reality of the Republican-led Senate and possibility that going after impeachment could cost the party politically.
By portraying impeachment as something that Trump wants, it creates an easier position for Democrats to rally around, that they won’t simply play into his hands.
Why do people fear Trump will see a Clintonesque surge in popularity if impeached ? He won’t.
They are completely different personalities and the cover-up is over completely different things-
I think she might have a point, but it’s also moot. It’s not going to enable them to get documents faster or anyone to come and testify that doesn’t want to. I vacillate on this every day, but in the end, I don’t think it matters much. Historically, I do think it will be seen as a failure of responsibility if they don’t impeach.
It’s so insane that people are looking to the Clinton impeachment rather than Nixon, which is far more comparable, even though it was longer ago. Trump is a Nixonian character, although he has none of Nixon’s virtues and owns hundreds of greater flaws.
It is not feared that his approval would skyrocket. What is feared is that the incredibly small, but electorally meaningful percentage of registered republicans or conservative-leaning independents who might have been disinclined to vote for him in 2020 will frame the election as an “us vs. them” and go back into their bunker, rather than view the election as whether they really want to pull the lever for him again.
Three dimensional chess being played against a 1/2 dimensional Dotard.
Please proceed as planned, Madam Speaker