An impeachment peel-off: 'Rats flee Pelosi's sinking ship

Is the impeachment ship sinking?

Well, it's always a pretty good sign of it when the 'rats are fleeing the ship.

That's the case with Rep. Jeff Van Drew, who's getting ready to scrap the 'Rat designation and become a Republican to boot. According to Politico:

Rep. Jeff Van Drew, a moderate Democrat who is strongly opposed to impeaching President Donald Trump, is expected to switch parties and become a Republican, according to multiple sources familiar with the situation.

Van Drew is one of two Democrats who voted against opening the impeachment inquiry into Trump and has remained against the effort, even as the House prepares to vote to impeach the president next week. Van Drew's decision comes after a meeting with Trump on Friday.

According to Conservative Tree House, that's got Democratic leaders panicking.

Politico argues it's related to Van Drew's individual political prospects, which aren't bright in his district.

But in reality, it's the latest sign that impeachment is going down like the Titanic. Van Drew is keeping his party affiliation Democratic for the impeachment vote in order to exact maximum pain on the Democrats as members peel off. If he flees the sinking ship, there may be others who follow.

What a far cry it all was when Democrats were announcing things going in their favor a few months ago when a wave of Republicans retired. Back then, it was a sign of Republicans supposedly not wanting to face more election losses.

Now it's Democrats heading for the exits. They know which way the political winds blow.

I’m extremely happy that the younger Democrat politicians are willing to sacrifice their futures in an attempt to keep the criminal older Democrat leaders from being rightfully brought to justice.

Come on younger Democrat politicians!

Throw yourselves on those grenades!

Look at your guts blown all over the room while Hillary and Pelosi and Nadler eat caviar bought with money they stole from the American Taxpayer.

RE: I’m extremely happy that the younger Democrat politicians are willing to sacrifice their futures in an attempt to keep the criminal older Democrat leaders from being rightfully brought to justice.

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Yes, but how many of them are willing to do that?

Will the number of such Democrats prevent Pelosi from reaching the 218 number to impeach Trump?

I am not optimistic.

Van Drew obviously a big win.

Another scenario is this: By allowing moderate dems to not show up for the vote, the number required to impeach will go down. The rules say “majority of members present”.

So, there’s some arithmetic they can try to crunch there to shield some moderate Dems and still hit the required number to impeach. They are going to look bad doing that too, but they are going to look no matter what they do. That’s why the situation is fluid.

Any dem who chooses to vote against this invalid impeachment may as well quit the dem party. His chances of getting any support are zero.

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Vote for impeachment: risk losing seat, which means loss of pension time for freshmen.

Vote against impeachment: risk being primaried from the left by progs who will lose in the general.

Decisions, decisions.

They need to quit the progs, join the Rs and support POTUS and the USA.

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