Pelosi FEARS an actual impeachment resolution to set up a formal impeachment inquiry because it would mean putting “moderate” Democrats (really liberal Democrats who pretend to be “moderate” in red districts) in peril. So instead they pass something today to go through the motions of impeachment without actually doing it.
Nonsense!
You say "actual" as if this means something, but it doesn't. As I outlined she and her party have everything they need to impeach Trump. They have empowered committee chairs with subpenoa power.
I also don't think the red-disctricts Democrats feel any fear of voting for an inquiry. They just did it this morning - all but two voted YES.
The "motions of impeachment" only require one thing: Articles of Impeachment be presented to the House and passed.
We're in the middle of that process, and if you think that somehow Nancy's vote was imprecise or imperfect and therefore can't result in achieving that goal you are, in my opinion, simply wrong.
This will be proven, probably by the end of the year, when Nadler passes the Articles of Impeachment out of the Judiciary committee.
You might still be sitting there arguing that this is a fake impeachment because you don't like the rule Pelosi is using, but the truth is the majority in the House has wide latitude to craft whatever rules they like.
A full house vote on the Articles is the one absolute requirement, and it's clear that they have that in hand already (despite so called Red District Democrats).
We could set up a pool on the date of the Full House vote though. I say Feb 28, 2020. A Friday.