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Goodwin: Pelosi’s Impeachment Flip-Flop Changes Everything
NY Post ^ | Sept 24

Posted on 09/24/2019 9:30:18 PM PDT by Helicondelta

For months, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi warned itchy Democrats against the perils of impeachment. She should have stuck to her guns.

In surrendering to the radicals and the noisy drumbeat of their media handmaidens, Pelosi established a formal investigative process involving the top legislative committees.

Yet she did something else, too, something far more monumental: She effectively committed House Dems to impeaching President Trump.

Because of what she said and did, if the House doesn’t go all the way, it will be a political disaster. Either failing to take a vote on articles of impeachment, or failing to get enough votes among her majority to pass any articles, would be seen as a political exoneration for Trump, likely leading to his re-election.

If all that weren’t risky enough, consider another scenario. If House Dems do impeach Trump on grounds that much of the public sees as flimsy and concocted, they could win the battle and lose the war. Indeed, no matter what the House does, there is a next-to-zero chance the GOP controlled Senate would convict the president absent clear and convincing “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

Pelosi knew all that since January, when she became Speaker, which is why she kept resisting the impeachers. But her surrender proved again that her party can’t quit 2016. Like generals fighting the last war, she and they are now committed to taking their sore-loser grievances to 2020 voters.

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KEYWORDS: impeachtrump; impeachtrumpinquiry; pelosiimpeachtrump
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To: Kickass Conservative

Or the word sedition.


41 posted on 09/25/2019 3:53:04 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Ken H

And the real numbers are even better.


42 posted on 09/25/2019 6:36:55 AM PDT by little jeremiah (New tagline in the pipeline)
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To: matthew fuller

I would prefer it be in the head.


43 posted on 09/25/2019 6:41:08 AM PDT by sport
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To: Robert357

***President Hillary Clinton had no comment on the strategy.***

It is stunning that this was written, and then remained in the article. Editors don’t take their jobs seriously anymore.


44 posted on 09/25/2019 7:38:23 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Ken H

Oh... that’s hilarious. What is he DOING with his hand? And then he mentions “when the cork pops off”. Too funny.


45 posted on 09/25/2019 7:42:02 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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