A majority of registered voters (54%) agree with Republican Justin Amash (MI) that Trump committed impeachable offenses. Pelosi knows he's committed impeachable offenses as well, but doesn't want to start impeachment proceedings against him for partisan considerations and because she is an old coward who should retire.
"Look at him," a senior Democratic congressman told me recently, less in disgust and more in pity, "he needs a crane to get him out of that chair. He's just let himself go..." Jim Clyburn (D-SC) may be in the worst shape of the three, but Clyburn is the "baby" of the the geriatric triumvirate at the top of the House Democratic caucus. Steny Hoyer turns 80 a week from next Friday. Pelosi's 80th isn't for another 9 months. Meanwhile, Clyburn won't even turn 79 til next month! It's absolutely insane that the 3 of them haven't retired. Do they think they're all that indispensable?
I love hearing John Oliver make an argument. He's my second favorite news anchor-- after Chris Hayes. When I heard the video above, I was in another room and didn't realize it wasn't Oliver. It sounded brilliant and it made the news fun, the way he does. But it was actually a very serious-- deadly serious journalist Mehdi Hasan, speaking for The Intercept. Please watch it; Hasan takes apart one lame anti-impeachment argument after another apart.On Friday Jerry Nadler, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, was a guest on WNYC.
Earlier this week, L.A. City Attorney Mike Feuer, hosted a Q&A with House Intelligence Chair and L.A. area congressman, Adam Schiff, Constitutional Clash. An exasperated Schiff went after his Republican colleagues' moral character.
In his NY Times column yesterday, Charles Blow came out strongly for impeachment. Of the redacted Mueller report-- I assure you that unlike most Republican members of Congress, that Blow has read it-- he notes that "it is a damning document.
Allan Lichtman correctly predicted the winner of every presidential election since 1984. He even predicted Trump would win in 2016. This year he said Trump would win again-- unless Pelosi jumps out of a window on the 48th floor of the Transamerica Pyramid... or in some other way let's go off her insane and unpatriotic and defeatist notion of not impeaching Trump.
Jonathan Bernstein's question for Bloomberg readers was compelling enough-- Where Does Trump Get His Odd Ideas? "Understanding how a president thinks can help make sense of his decisions," he wrote.
