We’ve heard about how reluctant she’s been to call for an impeachment inquiry. I truly believe that it was the last thing she wanted to do.
But maybe there was a sort of method to her reluctance. I’ve had a feeling for awhile that Nancy knows how to push Trump’s buttons. Maybe she’s been consulting with experts concerning Trump’s malady. They likely told her that cluster B personality disorders also include antisocial personality disorder in addition to narcissistic personality disorder. Can we see that in Donald Trump? Yep, I think we can.
Given his natural tendencies, he was likely to increase the number of violations. Increasing the violations also increased the possibility that he would become over-confident and reckless, neglecting to line up fall guys or clean up the evidence.
So, if Nancy had a strategy, maybe it was simply patience. She gave him plenty of rope and waited.
We lucked out that there was a witness to the latest violation. Let’s hope that his debriefing of the House Intel committee isn’t intercepted by Mitch McConnell and his Republican iron curtain.
One final thing: I was reading Hoarse Whisperer yesterday on Twitter and he made a very good suggestion about leaks, opinion, punditry and the press. Basically it was this: people who know real secrets don’t leak them the way you think they do and prolific leakers aren’t as well connected as you might think they are. Pay attention to commentators and experts who do not jump to conclusions but only report or analyze the information they are given without excess extrapolation. He says former prosecutors, military administrators and subject matter experts are usually best bets.
Just something to keep in mind going forward into this impeachment inquiry.
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Speaker Pelosi has said that “He is impeaching himself.” I think she needed more than just what was contained in the Mueller Report. This new story, hopefully already verified to some extent by Schiff and others in the Intelligence Committee, provides additional impetus. Without it, there would just be the ongoing investigations, until something was unearthed, rather unlikely given the stonewalling.
I don’t think that Pelosi has felt that impeachment was a good political strategy, and she wanted to avoid it unless absolutely mandated. I tend to agree with that, because if the public is bitterly divided on this process six months from now, and Trump;s poll numbers have gone up in swing states, we and the country are in real trouble. And we know that nothing but being defeated in the election is going to remove him. But I certainly do agree that soliciting a foreign country to help you in an upcoming election, is completely unacceptable, as it makes our foreign policy not for America, but for the personal interests of the totalitarian leader, and invites countries to curry favor and money through doing personal favors for him or her. Urging them to invent a story of the political foe’s corruption, is even worse. Explicitly or implicitly threatening to withhold foreign aid already approved by Congress, unless the foreign country complied with the demand to personally help the President, is criminal behavior. And that has to be responded to.
I really liked Pelosi’s remark at today’s Atlantic Magazine forum, about how Thomas Paine had once written, “The times have found us.” Put another way, the current political realities and threats to the democracy virtually compelled her to take this action.
Trump didn’t urge them to invent anything. He urged them to reopen an investigation that VP Biden got quashed. Here is Biden bragging about how he got the prosecutor investigating his son fired:
Oh, my heavens! I just watched Speaker Pelosi’s statement and it was one for the electronic history books.
However, given the acknowledgment (very sorry for spelling faux pas, somehow that got turned off?) that she, Feinstein and Ginsberg, at least, were prepared to retire upon election of our first woman President, I cannot help but wonder how much she regrets her “oh, women don’t need no fairness, it’s all them others, not me” finger in the scale for Obama in 2008.
Oh, and happy post MD-gifted sleep, RD.
Was this not the best thing to wake up to?
I would like to thank Nancy Pelosi for ensuring the reelection of President Donald Trump and extending Cocaine Mitch’s tenure as Senate Majority Leader. She also did just about everything she could (short of just handing over the gavel to Jim Jordan) to help the Republicans to retake the House.
Trump had this ad ready to go before Nancy Pelosi’s announcement. Once again, Trump is calling the tune and the Democrats are dancing to it.
Keep whistling past the graveyard, Niles.
Granted, Someone Down There seems to look out for your cult leader and his master, Vladimir Putin–but then, ask Adolf & Benito how faithful Old Nick is to his beneficiaries. He always double-crosses them sooner or later; that’s just what he is, and Vlad and Donny knew what he was when they signed those contracts in blood. 😈
Hi Niles!
Don’t count your chickens!
Niles, I am curious. Is it that you don’t think that trump and his swampy admin are corrupt, destructive and deliberately divisive, or that you don’t care because he is your party’s guy, or worse, you revel in the corruption, destruction and divisiveness? If the last one, can you please explain how you think that helps the country (USA) and its people?
Cats, they don’t care.
The modern Republican voter, independent voter, or voluntary
non-voter (I call the last group “Vote Slackers”; I have NOT
copyrighted the term; please feel free to make it viral) is either a bigot, or displays a depraved indifference to the sufferings of the victims of bigotry. I have gotten to where I may well despise one of the latter group more than I despise an honest bigot. As Dr. King said, at least with the honest bigots one knows where one stands. (BTW, I’m white, if anyone’s wondering.)
I would like to add that the average white American is a despicable crybaby about taxes. The Revolutionary slogan was “No taxation without representation!”, not “No taxation, period!”