Pelosi, Schiff, others still cool on impeachment.

Well perhaps the big Mueller moment will be the "turning point" for impeachment, or perhaps not. The major problem with the Mueller moment (all eight minutes of it) is that it still doesn't change what was stated in the report, and it basically offered nothing new.

The problems with impeachment still exist. Most notably, the fact that several polls now has gauged  the general public's mood at about a two to one majority "against" impeachment, additional investigations, or additional hearings.

The public would generally like our elected leaders to move on from this, and move on to what they were elected to do. I am not convinced that this eight minute speech from Robert Mueller is going to make any of that sentiment go away. In fact, it would be a better argument to say that the stammering Mueller, looking less than relaxed, less than self assured, and walking off into the sunset demanding he would answer no questions does not make a compelling case for reopening this can of worms.

Prior to the Mueller moment, less than ten percent of our elected leaders were pushing for impeachment. Forty six Democrats and one Republican had been on board. You would have to almost triple that number, just to get a majority of the Democratic majority to favor impeachment.

More to the point, even those who favor impeachment, are making a political (not legal) case. Everyone knows it's an exercise in futility, and everyone knows that the only reason to do it is for politics (good or bad). This is largely the same issue that Republicans had with Clinton. Even though their case was more iron clad (Starr openly stated that Clinton committed felony crimes) the fact that it was never going to end up with Clinton being removed made it a blatant political move.

Sometimes the American public is just a little smarter than politicians believe.