Don’t they need to have a vote first to author the process? They haven’t even done that yet.
Since when do laws matter/apply to democrats?
Yes they do.
I am still not convinced this will survive the next “major news” that is unrelated to it. The Democrats wildly swing from one pet cause to another—they are _very_ emotional, like little children.
The next bright shiny object will have them (and their mass media friends) chasing off in another direction.
Example: another mass shooting brings them back to gun grabbing mania—need Republican votes so they shelve impeachment
Example: foreign policy crisis (who knows, could be anything) gets them doing war cries and wailing for “national unity”
Example: “Climate change” gets them riled up again—dead whales wash up on shore, whatever...”
Folks here can think of more examples.
I think we err if we think of Democrats as mature adults with long-term goals.
Nah. Democrats don’t have to follow laws or procedures. They just do as they please. Who will stop them?
Breitbart reported there was a vote on a motion to table a resolution submitted by Kevin McCarthy:
Resolved: That the House of Representatives disapproves of the actions of the Speaker of the House, Mrs. Pelosi of California, to initiate an impeachment inquiry against the duly elected President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.The House vote was to table McCarthy's motion against Pelosi's unilateral declaration of an impeachment inquiry without a full House vote.
Breitbart is saying that the House implied a vote to proceed with an impeachment inquiry by blocking McCarthy's vote of disapproval of Pelosi, without having to actually vote in the affirmative to launch an impeachment inquiry.
This was more of the usual no-means-yes type of chicanery that we've become used to. They vote in the negative to block a vote that supposedly stops something, and the vote to block stopping an act is a de fact vote to approve proceeding with the act.
It's what McConnell did with the Iran treaty. The Senate failed to vote to block the treaty, instead of constitutionally voting to ratify the treaty.
-PJ