Reply #: Right now, hearings are on cspan and are attended by a small fraction [View All]

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of the overall House. They fly below the radar. At most, a single soundbite makes it onto Yahoo news. Certainly, the rest of the world, including maimed civilians, don't see them and understand that someone is trying to do SOMETHING.

Impeachment is a full blown investigation...not a hearing....with powers that hearings don't necessarily have. The volume is turned way up. Front page news every day. Congressmen taking stands and making speeches, not just asking questions. The fear of God. Inside pressure from the GOP toward the WH to have someone resign. In a hearing, when something impeachable or immoral or criminal comes to light, only those people in the room decide if an issue is taken a step further...and without public scrutiny and encouragement, they are on their own. Let's get is out in the open?

To me, few of the potentially positive outcomes are achieved by hearings.

Turning your question around, what about impeachment scares you in ways that hearings do not?