Congress already laying groundwork for impeachment

BATTLE FOR WORLD / PRESS OF ATLANTIC CITY | February 11, 2019: The article highlights that last week (the first week in February), no fewer than six committees of the House of Representatives were investigating potential grounds for impeaching President Donald Trump.

The committees do not use the word “impeachment,” because they were instructed by the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to describe their work in narrower, less inflammatory terms.

But the question that is always close is: Does Trump’s record of norm-busting, rule-bending and apparent law-breaking, from conflicts of interest to murky connections with foreign governments, justify removing him from office?

Pelosi said recently, “We have to see what the facts are.”  And we “We shouldn’t be impeaching for a political reason, and we shouldn’t avoid impeachment for a political reason. So we’ll just have to see how it comes.”

The beginning phase is termed “pre-impeachment” and Pelosi and her committee chairs, all Democrats, are doing what they need to do to make impeaching Trump possible.

Some Democrats pushing for impeachment are more impatient, and California billionaire Tom Steyer has vowed to spend money in next year’s (2020) Democratic primaries to punish members of Congress, including committee chairs, who don’t move as quickly as he’d like.

But such a move is short-sighted, and an impeachment resolution now would surely backfire — is the opinion. That it would create a zero-sum fight between the two tribes of American politics – the DINO and the RINO. It would make winning Republican support almost impossible — and could help re-elect Trump.

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