This had nothing to do with the Mueller Report. It wasn’t the eDem strategy that turned the corner, it was Trump committing yet another impeachable offense and a brave whistleblower saving the day by shining the light of day on an entirely new scandal… which Trump then followed up by publicly admitting he did it before flip flopping back and forth on what he did or didn’t do and why.
Nunnehi believed that Dem leadership was going to impeach any day now on the grounds of the Mueller Report. That never happened, and now we’ll never know if it would have.
Meanwhile, we’re not even actually having a House vote on an impeachment inquiry I guess? Or not yet? Like the six standing investigations are just going to keep going, and this is going to run through House Intel I guess and they’re going to actually (maybe hopefully) play hardball with getting the whistleblower report? I mean, it’s a good development and on the subject matter of the new scandal I’m more optimistic that Democrats will do the right thing, but I wouldn’t say we’re home yet…
And by the way, those seven freshman Dems deserve the lion’s share of the credit for this, not Pelosi, not the establishment leadership.
My buddy’s Congresswoman in Kansas is a Dem who’s not, so I gave him the phone numbers to her offices and told him to call her. Good stuff thanks for the list smacc and nun!
Democrats need to make sure they don’t screw around on this. The entire whistleblower’s report needs to be turned over to House Intel, unredacted, unedited. If it’s not, use inherent contempt or just impeach the motherfucker.
If he wants to play political games and declassify part and redact part and release that version to the public or to the entire House, I suppose he has that right, but it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have to give the full report to House Intel.
Do your job, Pelosi. Do your job, Schiff. Don’t back down now.
If the republicans and trump want something released idk…A nice sanitized report that clears or slightly hurts him and sinks Biden? Hope the dems are going on something solid and have a good plan.
I suspect the report will be redacted just enough to spin, and the transcript they release will be the best possible light they can put on this - and possibly falsified.
Feels like they’ve got something here but lord knows what. Like after all the ridiculous shit Trump has done, some phone call finally crossed the line? Probably just being hopeful but it sounds like there is some treasonous shit here.
This is a great first step but it’s just that, nothing more. Until we see some actual backbone out of the leadership that amounts to something I would say to tread cautiously with expectations here. As others have said all Pelosi really did is formally name what has already been going on.
Now my hope is that means some expedient action on some of this stuff. My hope is that means the full force of the party’s power and every tool at their disposal. But I’m in the I need to see it to believe it camp after how bad it’s been for so long.
They’re going right back to the Mueller Report playbook: release a wildly misleading document then scream that they’re proven innocent. I don’t think it will work this time.
Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, and I won’t get fooled again.
But ya, Dems aren’t going to fall for the redaction bs again. And they need to impeach Barr while they’re at it. Nixon’s AG did time. Barr needs to as well.
Yeah, it’s this. The republicans are in a weird spot. You know damn well 90% of the republicans in congress want him gone. I figured they would turn on him the moment his approval ratings put him into the ‘toxic’ category, which I’d estimate as below 30%. They’ve never gotten there. I’m not sure if this will push him down in to that territory, or if they’re just going to say “fuck it” and flip anyways. Their only other options is to shamelessly act like everything is fine, and you can tell by all the resignations that they are getting exhausted with that.