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In reply to the discussion: Nancy Pelosi Just Sent a Dire Warning About the Whistleblower Complaint to Trump [View all]chowder66
(9,688 posts)"Nancy Pelosi has been taking a lot of flak over her seeming reluctance to support full-throttle impeachment proceedings. Despite House Democrats' multi-pronged investigation of Donald Trump since taking power last January, their votes to contemn uncooperative witnesses, and their (so far) successful efforts to enforce subpoenas against a "sandbagging" White House -- and even after the House Judiciary Committee let the cat out of the bag by confessing, in a court filing, that the hearings, subpoenas, document requests, etc. they've been engaged in are part of an impeachment inquiry" -- some pundits continue to chastise the Democratic leadership for dragging their feet (and some commentators -- even some Congresscritters -- remain confused about whether or not an impeachment inquiry actually is underway. Pro tip: it is.)
There's one thing Pelosi's critics from the left are correct about: even though the impeachment inquiry/investigation/hearings have been underway for several months now, Pelosi is loath to actually call them that. Instead, she seizes every opportunity to minimize impeachment talk -- and, heroically, is shouldering a tremendous amount of abuse for doing so.
Why heroically? Because she's right. The inquiry is underway, but the "official" impeachment hearings (and the consequent stirring-up-the-public rhetoric) won't, and more pointedly SHOULDN'T, begin for months -- maybe even a year.
(Ouch. Please stop shouting. You're hurting my ears.)""
Please read the rest of the article to see some of the arguments being made and addressed.
https://crooksandliars.com/2019/07/why-pelosis-right-delay-impeachment