Rep. Henry Cuellar: "The caucus as a whole, we've decided not to move forward on the impeachment."

[PoliticAverse]

"We're continuing letting the committees continue their work on the oversight and then we'll take it from there."

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

1. In other words, it's not time yet.

Sigh. I feel sure that virtually every liberal member of our house caucus (over 200 of them) really, really believes in the need to remove Trump from the presidency as soon as possible, whether they believe that'll be through impeachment or fear it could mean at the next election.

It's not the will, it's the way. Six months waiting for it to become time and counting...

[Botany]

2. And 2019 becomes 2020 and you know you can't impeach during an election year.

[Goodheart]

3. Madame Pelosi blundered this, sad to say.

The time to strike was when the 900+ Federal prosecutors of both parties signed that letter stating any other person would be indicted, shortly after the release of Mueller's report.

She has lost all momentum. Mueller gave us nothing new in live testimony that we didn't already know from his report and from his press conference. If the case wasn't strong enough back then why would it be strong enough now? No further court cases nor subpoenas will quell the perception that they're now grasping at straws.

[blogslut]

4. Funny how 'The Hill' leaves out the words "as of right now" in their tweet.

Did I mention The Hill sux0r?

[Gothmog]

5. Nancy Pelosi Doesn't Have The Votes To Impeach Trump

Link to tweet

Pelosi’s majority includes 31 members who represent districts Trump carried in 2016 and could face electoral danger. Impeachment might accomplish little more than energizing Trump 2020 voters.

Close Pelosi allies insist she couldn’t gain majority support for impeachment even if she tried, not to mention the two-thirds of a Republican-run Senate needed for conviction and removal from office. “There will never be 218 in the House,” a leadership aide told me.....

The votes aren’t there. The 31 Democrats who represent districts that Donald Trump won in 2016 can see that impeachment is not popular with voters in general. If these nearly three dozen Democrats want to win second terms and keep the House in Democratic hands, they feel the need to stay far away from impeachment.

Blaming Pelosi is both easy, and it displays a fundamental ignorance of the dynamics of this Democratic House majority.

Robert Mueller’s testimony was an important step, but unless public opinion changes and a whole bunch of House Democrats change their minds, impeachment won’t happen in the House before the 2020 election.